Earlier this month, Mother Jones reported that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency that investigates allegations of illegal workplace discrimination, had suddenly stopped ...

If there’s a silver lining to the first few lawless weeks of Trump 2.0, it’s that new judicial vacancies have been slow to come in. As I noted in the last installment of this column, President Donald ...

In spring of 2018, Starbucks was embroiled in a crisis brought on by back-to-back racist incidents at its stores. First, a Starbucks employee in Philadelphia called the cops on two Black men and got ...

In a one-sentence order last month, the Supreme Court declined to review Davis v. Smith, a case about an Ohio man challenging his conviction for attempted murder on the grounds that detectives had ...

In the fall of 2023, Richard Snyder was summoned for jury duty at the Rensselaer County Supreme Court in Troy, New York. Not everyone who is summoned for jury duty makes it on a jury, though; instead, ...

Three weeks into Trump’s second presidential term, federal courts have already played an important role in attempting to curb the most flagrantly illegal of the new administration’s actions. Lower ...

This week, The Washington Post published a list of “50 People Shaping Our Society in 2025” that included Texas attorney Jonathan Mitchell, whom it described as “part cultural conservative, part ...

On January 27, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget sent a memo to the heads of all executive departments and agencies with a subject line reading, “Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and ...

Noah Feldman, the liberal Harvard Law School professor who specializes in constitutional law and being wrong in public, has dedicated his latest Bloomberg column to President Donald Trump’s first two ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order challenging birthright citizenship is more than an ineffectual attempt to change the law or redefine the identity of the nation. It represents a calculated ...

One of President Joe Biden’s earliest campaign pledges was to remake the federal bench to better reflect the diversity of the country it serves. Whatever else you want to say about the Biden ...

Last month, Mitch McConnell ended his record-setting 18-year reign as the Republican Party’s leader in the Senate. McConnell, 82, will continue to serve until his term ends in 2027, but “from a ...