In December 2024, when the Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Skrmetti, Justice Amy Coney Barrett claimed to have no knowledge about how the government treats trans people. “At ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Link to: The Supreme Court Gave Fossil Fuels Companies an Early Christmas Present ...

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 ...

In September 2021, about a year after she joined the Supreme Court and six months before she cast the deciding vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, Justice Amy Coney Barrett attempted to assure anxious ...

Hookworm, a parasite that lives in the small intestine, was thought to be eradicated in most of the United States decades ago. People generally contract the illness by walking on soil contaminated by ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued a two-paragraph order that allows the Trump administration to move forward with gutting some two dozen federal agencies, moving ever closer to realizing the ...

Nina Totenberg, the longtime NPR legal affairs correspondent, has a defiant message for her haters in her new book Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships. Despite persistent ...