Biden has taken some critical first steps in making the Department of Justice more representative of America, but there’s more work to be done.

What happens when our luck runs out?

A new book frames this country’s tendency toward state-sanctioned murder as a unique cultural inheritance.

If Congress doesn’t, they’ll try this again.

The presidency confers broad powers that will allow him to roll back all of the damage done by his predecessor.

They’re young, white, male, and ready to cash in on their work for Trump’s Justice Department.

The president’s raggedy gang of dead-enders are still pressing for the election to be overturned in increasingly extravagant ways.

The Democratic lawyer’s sickening defense of corporate immunity in a Supreme Court case reveals a growing moral rot in the legal community.

Under cover of Covid-19, the high court’s conservative bloc is dreaming up some radical ideas about religious freedom and public health.

Donald Trump is taking lame-duck pardons to obscene new levels, but he had a boost from his predecessors.

Are the court’s conservatives the devout originalists they claim to be or partisan hacks? A key immigration case will provide the proof.

Trump may not be able to extend his reign, but he can aid and abet his party by further curtailing the right to vote.

With one stroke, the new president could revive the labor movement and help repair the post-pandemic economy.

The high court’s rescue of the Affordable Care Act might end up imperiling Biden’s entire executive agenda.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority will reign for decades to come, but one of its members can only talk about defeat.

Voters could have given Joe Biden the option to hold the high court in check. Instead, they’ve unleashed its conservative supermajority.

The inane system our founders developed to choose the president is an anti-democratic remnant of the slavery era that only benefits the GOP.

While it’s unlikely that Trump will extend his reign by means of any of the strategies he’s deploying, the damage he could do to America is real.

The president’s postelection legal challenges are being laughed out of court. But what if judges weren’t the intended audience anyway?

So far, the election results have provided the president with lots of fuel for bluster but few avenues for the courts to interfere.