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 ...

When President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, the national unemployment rate was at 4 percent overall, and at 5.3 percent for Black workers. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee convened for its final meeting on President Donald Trump’s judicial nominations before lawmakers head home for the holidays. Among the nominees who ...

Very bad things can happen to people in immigration court. The court can order people to be held indefinitely, as long as the government thinks it can find a country that will take them. The court can ...

After a disastrous showing in the November 2025 elections and under pressure from President Donald Trump, many Republican-controlled legislatures are looking to (further) gerrymander their states ...

Two weeks ago, a federal district court declared Texas Republicans’ proposal to redraw the state’s congressional districts to be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and blocked it from taking ...

The technical questions in Louisiana v. Callais, which the Supreme Court will decide sometime next year, sound mostly like gibberish to people who are not already intimately familiar with several ...

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 ...

On October 15, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, a pair of consolidated cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court handed down a one-page order that greenlit federal immigration officers’ use of blatant racial profiling when conducting armed raids in the Los Angeles area. A ...