The Court’s opinion in CASA presents class actions as a workable alternative to nationwide injunctions, which will be surprising to anyone with a passing familiarity with the Court’s hostility to ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Trump v. CASA, a case that is both generally about the authority of courts to rein in executive lawlessness, and also specifically about the ...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has historically been among the nation’s most conservative federal appeals courts. This is particularly true where abortion is concerned: Well before President ...

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Mahmoud v. Taylor, the conservative legal movement’s most ambitious attempt yet to refashion this country’s 250-year-old history of ...

Democrats hold a 51-49 majority in the Senate, which means that they don’t need Cortez Masto’s vote to confirm Mangi if the rest of the caucus holds together. (In the event of a 50-50 tie, Vice ...

This interactive map shows which party's nominees control the federal courts of appeals, along with demographic information about judges in each circuit.

As a first step, Congress can and must enact ethics reform. The Supreme Court, unlike the lower courts, is not bound by a code of ethics. A simple act of Congress could change this, ensuring that the ...

Another Supreme Court term has come and gone, which means it is once again time for law professors to write opinion columns revealing just how little they understand the subjects they are handsomely ...

Shortly after taking the oath of office on Monday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that purports to end birthright citizenship—this country’s 157-year-old tradition of conferring ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Thursday in Trump v. CASA, the case about President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to rescind the Constitution’s grant of birthright citizenship.

What’s the conservative case for fetal personhood? Basically, that the courts’ interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment has been wrong and crabbed for a long time. In an amicus brief in Dobbs, ...