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Only once in the modern era have the justices taken this long to issue their first decision — and when it came, it wasn’t the ...

On October 7, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Chiles v. Salazar. This case will decide the constitutionality of Colorado's ban on conversion therapy. A decision in that case is expected at ...

From the first day of his second term, Donald Trump has engaged in a relentless series of lawless and presumptively unconstitutional actions. Firing thousands of federal employees without cause and ...

The Supreme Court on Friday turned down a request from the Trump administration in a dispute over a policy limiting speaking engagements by immigration judges. A federal appeals court had sent the ...

No American president has worked as hard as Donald Trump to sabotage the intended constitutional distribution of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government and to ...

Tiffany Foxworth-Roberts won’t be on the bench in Baton Rouge anymore, and that’s a good thing. On Thursday, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled, by a 4-3 margin, that Foxworth-Roberts’ legions of lies ...

Last year, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled that the president of the United States had “absolute” criminal immunity for his “official acts,” as well as lesser degrees of immunity for ...

Baton Rouge Judge Tiffany Foxworth-Roberts has been kicked off the bench, with the Louisiana Supreme Court taking the extraordinarily rare step in a misconduct case that centered on allegations that ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In 1982, when the Voting Rights Act was up for reauthorization, the Reagan Justice Department had a goal: ...

The case could effectively end the independence of bipartisan agencies. The Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to allow President Donald Trump to remove a Democratic member of the Federal Trade ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Monday over the president’s power to remove ...