When Lindsay Hecox graduated from high school in 2019, she came out as transgender. A few months later, she started medically prescribed hormone replacement treatment—taking estrogen and suppressing ...
On January 6, 2021, President Donald Trump told a throng of furious supporters gathered at the Ellipse that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “stolen,” and that unless they were willing to “fight ...
On New Year’s Eve, Chief Justice John Roberts published the 2025 year-end report on the federal judiciary. For nearly 50 years, these annual reports consisted of the chief justice’s reflections on the ...
Link to: The Supreme Court’s War on Government Is Just Getting Started NEPA, however, is different. NEPA, or the National Environmental Policy Act, was the first major federal environmental statute of ...
Link to: The Supreme Court Gave Fossil Fuels Companies an Early Christmas Present ...
In early 1981, there was probably no more exciting place for young, ambitious Republican lawyers than the U.S. Department of Justice, which the journalist Ari Berman has described as “the nerve center ...
As a journalist who covers reproductive rights, I’ve spent the first six months of Donald Trump’s second term waiting for the other shoe to drop on abortion. Sure, the president has pardoned nearly ...
On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing for Rebecca Taibleson, President Donald Trump’s pick for a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Under most Republican ...
The highlights of the résumé of Josh Divine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to a federal district court vacancy in Missouri, are standard-issue conservative legal movement stuff: a clerkship with ...
If you graduate from law school and go work for a law firm, and you’re bullied, sexually harassed, or retaliated against by your employer, your first move is probably filing a complaint with human ...
Gorsuch, however, had other subjects on his mind. “That’s the one where [students] are supposed to look for the leather and things—and bondage? Things like that, right?” he asked the district’s lawyer ...
At first, school officials allowed parents to opt their children out of lessons involving these books. But after this proved to be a logistical nightmare in Montgomery County, Maryland’s largest ...