The ruling held that migrants detained under AEA had not been given adequate notice of their potential deportation. It also reflects the Court's growing distrust of the Trump Administration.
A majority of the justices seem unconvinced the Administration was prepared to provide the process that was due. Justices Alito and Thomas dissent.
The president's executive order on birthright citizenship had its first test before the Supreme Court.
The text and history of the Fourteenth Amendment run counter to Trump’s executive order.
Stephen Miller's understanding of the Constitution is dubious for several reasons.
Briefs urging the Supreme Court to stay injunctions against the order challenge "the conventional wisdom" about the meaning of an 1898 decision interpreting the 14th Amendment.
The late justice was appointed by a Republican but quickly established himself as a judicial liberal.
How the phrase ended up in an opinion after it had been omitted.
The Department of Justice told the Supreme Court there were "policy tradeoffs that an officer makes" in determining if he should "take one more extra precaution" to make sure he's at the right house.
Democrats tried to alter unconstitutionally the membership of the Supreme Court; they extorted Facebook into censoring free speech; they issued presidential executive orders unsupported by statute; and they pushed unprecedented prosecutions of Biden's predecessor in office, and his 2024 opponent, in the presidential race.
A declassified assessment contradicts the president's assertion that Tren de Aragua is "closely aligned with" the Venezuelan government and acts at its "direction."
The Trump administration is desperate to avoid judicial review.
A Supreme Court case about religious parents' rights underscores a deeper problem: Without choice, public schools become a culture war battleground with no exit.
A Supreme Court case could determine whether Americans own their digital data—or whether the government can take that information without a warrant.
The president's bizarre insistence that Kilmar Abrego Garcia "had MS-13 tattooed" on "his knuckles" makes him seem like a confused old man.
A statutory interpretation case, involving national emergencies, splits the justices in an unusual way.
The Wisconsin judge is charged with obstruction of justice and concealing an undocumented alien to prevent his arrest.
U.S. District Judge Mark Walker says Upside Foods has plausibly alleged that the law's protectionism violates the "dormant" Commerce Clause.
A new ACLU lawsuit argues that the government still is not giving alleged gang members the "notice" required by a Supreme Court order.
A federal judge in Colorado rules against the Trump administration.
Plus: Cornell's cancel culture case, Trump's immigration policy approval ratings, and more...
The president has launched a multifaceted crusade against speech that offends him.
The administration's demands extend far beyond its avowed concern about antisemitism and enforcement of "civil rights laws."
The president's lawyers also conflate fraud with defamation, misconstrue the commercial speech doctrine, and assert that false speech is not constitutionally protected.
Understanding the Supreme Court's unusual late-night ruling against the Trump administration
Plus: Ross Douthat on technological change, Trump on a possible Jerome Powell firing, and more...
In Justice Abandoned, a law professor argues that the Court got these key decisions wrong.
The Court will weigh religious opt-outs and charter school discrimination. But true educational freedom means funding students, not systems.
“The Executive will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness and all of its attendant contagions.”
Plus: A deep dive into the likelihood of China invading Taiwan, a weak dollar, Kasparov sounds constitutional crisis alarms, and more...
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg says the evidence indicates that the government "willfully disobeyed" his order blocking removal of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
The Supreme Court unanimously rejected that claim, upholding the right to due process in deportation cases.
The Supreme Court ruled they administration must "facilitate" the return of an illegally deported migrant imprisoned in El Salvador at its behest. They have responded by doing virtually nothing to comply.
The state may have a hard time showing that its broad restrictions are consistent with the "historical tradition of firearm regulation."
No, the Supreme Court did not give Trump free rein in the case of a wrongly deported man.
And while U.S. officials admit the deportation was a mistake, they say they're not obliged to bring him back—despite the Supreme Court's ruling.
Not all of the action on the shadow docket involves President Trump.
Trump lost on his most aggressive claims of executive power for the second time in a week.
Plus: China-U.S. relations heat up, ICE says ideas shouldn't cross borders, sexytime with the computer, and more...
Without any recorded dissent, the justices rebuke the Trump Administration's cavalier disregard for due process.
Even if Laredo cops punished Priscilla Villarreal for constitutionally protected speech, the appeals court says, they would be protected by qualified immunity.
The Supreme Court did not answer two of the biggest legal questions raised by Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.
The movie star’s special treatment highlights the injustice of an illogical federal law.
Although the Court lifted an order that temporarily blocked removal of suspected gang members, it unambiguously affirmed their right to judicial review.
A federal court ruled Trina Martin could not sue the government after agents burst into her home and held an innocent man at gunpoint.
The Supreme Court oveturns lower court decisions temporarily barring AEA deportations, but also emphasizes that detainees are entitled to due process, and that AEA deportations are subject to judicial review.
The Supreme Court has ample precedent to rule against Trump’s trade war.
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