Justice Amy Coney Barrett recently resisted a label that has followed several members of the current Supreme Court. Asked whether her occasional breaks with the court’s conservative majority meant she…
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Last week, the federal government joined President Donald Trump’s personal legal team in asking the Supreme Court to review an $83.3 million judgment against the president in a defamation case…
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The Supreme Court will kick off its 2026-27 term with oral arguments in a lawsuit brought by a Colorado county seeking millions of dollars from oil and gas companies for…
This article was adapted from an essay that first appeared in the essay collection America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance (MIT Press, 2026). Read more When the court…
In a decision allowing the Trump administration to move forward with plans to end humanitarian immigration protection for hundreds of thousands of people living and working in the United States,…
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Lawyers for a group of 23 states and the District of Columbia on Monday afternoon urged the Supreme Court to leave in place by a federal court in Boston that…