The Trump administration has lost approximately 60% of the court rulings against it since Inauguration Day and won 30%—while ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's three liberal justices exerted waning influence during its recently concluded term, and their ...

Issues once thought long settled are now up for grabs again. But, "they’re not going to get what they want," says Omar Jadwat of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.

Every word matters in critical legal documents, and no language is more pored over and parsed for meaning than that used in our U.S. Constitution.

President Trump and religious groups emerged as some of the biggest winners from the Supreme Court this term. Losers included ...

Since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, he has voiced his desire to end Birthright Citizenship and signed an executive order to do just ...

A recent Supreme Court decision puts an expectant immigrant mother in South Carolina and her baby at risk in a way that's not ...

The term “American exceptionalism” gets bandied about a lot, often being confused with flag waving or braggadocio. Perhaps the best definition was provided by the late newspaper columnist Charles ...

On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in a 6-3 decision in Trump v. Casa, that federal courts lack the authority to ...

A new Yahoo/YouGov survey finds the Supreme Court defied public opinion by paving the way for states to revoke the ...

Even if the mothers' immigration statuses were called into question and even if Trump was not married to them at the time of ...

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