The administration has gone to strained lengths to install loyal allies in key judicial roles. Things haven’t gone according to plan.

The Supreme Court has blocked Trump from firing another official just because he feels like it.

Erin Hawley has devoted her career to rolling back the civil rights of vulnerable Americans. Now she is poised to become a circuit court judge.

Count Judge Jerry Smith’s professional demeanor as one more casualty in the battle to redistrict the Lone Star State to Donald Trump’s liking.

The justice has famously endeavored to do right by Native Americans and restore their place in the constitutional order. Here’s how that work is going.

Karoline Leavitt blamed Donald Trump’s continued efforts to cut food stamp funding on Democrats and a judge.

As more and more professional athletes get ensnared in gambling scandals, it’s become clear that the sports world has been thrust into the middle of a genuine calamity.

It was never about the shutdown.

This could change voting as we know it.

The Supreme Court has rejected Kim Davis’s challenge to the landmark case.

The high court is weighing in on a grotesque religious freedom violation meted out to a Rastafarian prisoner who thought he had the legal system’s protection.

One of the biggest firms in the industry wants the Roberts court to grant it sovereign immunity. Even the Trump administration is in opposition—to a point.

At oral arguments in the tariffs case, the conservative justices seemed ready to hit the president with the legal rationale they used to bedevil Joe Biden.

Or, as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would say: Tax the rich.

Even the conservative justices sounded highly skeptical of the Justice Department’s arguments.

A plain reading of the Constitution refutes Trump’s spurious claims about the Fourteenth Amendment, but the conservative legal movement is doing what it can to muddy the waters.

Donald Trump is moving to avoid consequences once again.

The president is worried that his tariffs case before the court has big holes. Canadian officials have confirmed those fears are well founded.

A legal battle between California Governor Gavin Newsom and the president will decide whether the president’s autocratic use of the National Guard is above board.

In another one of their “history and tradition” tests, the justices stand poised to upend laws all across the country.