He took his party to new heights of power, and gave Donald Trump the power to potentially burn it all down.

Defendants seeking relief from capital punishment typically don’t win at the high court, but Richard Glossip’s case was a bridge too far—for most of the justices, anyway.

The judicial system has started to rule against the administration’s decimation of the civil service. If only it could actually enforce its rulings.

The administration’s assault on government regulations was expected. But how do you fight a budding dictator in court?

A new op-ed from a pair of conservative legal experts only raises unflattering questions about the direction of the right's juridical scholarship.

Donald Trump says the Supreme Court already gave him the power to purge the federal government.

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.

The once-independent agency has been forced to embrace a change of mission—serve the president’s exclusive interests, and carry out his revenge on the American people.

Donald Trump’s sweeping immunity is actually proving a hindrance in a lawsuit.

Donald Trump ally Steve Wynn wants to make it more dangerous for journalists to do their job.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Trump’s executive order stripping federal workers of legal protections is the most dangerous of his unlawful power grabs. But there is a way to win them back.

Republicans have been winning an asymmetric war over district lines for decades. To preserve democracy, their opponents will have to fight back.

The tech oligarch has unleashed his slow-rolling coup d’état across the federal government, and it’s not clear anything can prevent a total takeover.

The White House is effectively declaring war on federalism by claiming unconstitutional jurisdictional power—and daring the judiciary to stop it.

The New Republic’s new senior legal columnist talks with editor Michael Tomasky about how Donald Trump is wrecking the Justice Department.

Part church-versus-state conflict, part jurisdictional turf war, this Sooner State charter school fracas is one of the knottiest cases the high court has had to resolve in some time.

The Supreme Court could soon get its first request to gut the landmark ruling allowing same-sex marriage.

Asked to defend the president’s executive order, the Justice Department has marshaled some flimsy arguments.

The Department of Justice is embracing a nineteenth-century case that denied citizenship to Native Americans to try to justify its blatantly unconstitutional push.