The mogul seems bent on pushing the Trump White House into a nuclear confrontation with the federal judiciary. He has the chief justice to thank.

Constitutional crisis? Yeah, that’s definitely on the table.

Donald Trump has set his sights on the judiciary branch.

The House speaker doesn’t seem to care too much that there are supposed to be three equal branches of government.

The Supreme Court chief justice’s claim about the federal courts shows how out of touch he is.

During Trump’s first term, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was a rare oasis of judicial sobriety. It will face an even sterner test the next time around.

The high court sent nine cases back to the lower courts in light of recent rulings weakening federal agency authority.

The Supreme Court has overturned decades of precedent on the administrative state—transferring more power to the judiciary.

Insurer Chubb has stepped in with a timely loan to help with some of the former president’s mounting legal fees. But he’s still nearly half a billion dollars short—and he says he hasn’t got it.

The hard-liners pushing for change may sound like our own liberal reformers, but their aim is a power grab.

As more and more judges engineer their own end-of-career successions, the rule of law is starting to warp in dangerous and unsustainable ways.

Republicans have erected a conservative fortress in the federal judiciary. Our founding documents provide the means to knock it down.

Sam Sloan is a college dropout, an ex-con, and a polygamist. He is also the last non-lawyer to win a case at the Supreme Court.

American democracy is broken. Here’s how to fix it.

Judge Justin Walker is the worst of a long line of right-wing dilettantes fast-tracked by Mitch McConnell in his relentless quest to subvert the judiciary.

The chief justice's year-end report dwells heavily on the preservation of our civic life, without noting his hand in its undoing.

The Justice has always shown a disregard for precedent, but with a shift in Supreme Court personnel, undoing progress could be the law of the land.

Will the activists who organized the vote for Catalonian independence in 2017 be convicted of rebellion and sedition?

Of course the court system is political! The first step toward changing that is acknowledging it.

Trump has seized the federal bench, but there's hope for Democrats in the lower judiciary.