Judge concludes "progressive prosecutor" Larry Krasner and a deputy engaged in unethical--and potentially unlawful--conduct in their zeal to undo a criminal conviction.
Their brief says the president is asserting "essentially boundless" authority to impose "economy-wide tariffs untethered from the statute Congress enacted."
The president's latest tirade against recalcitrant justices reflects his open contempt for judicial review.
The Freedom of Information Act gives Americans the right to see what records the government has on any subject—including you.
The Kentucky congressman says he will force a vote on removing Hegseth, who is accused of "abusing the power of his office to ignore congressional war powers resolutions, to kidnap foreign leaders, and to intimidate critics of the Trump administration."
An interesting discussion of recusal, timeliness, and the social relationships between judges and lawyers and their families.
Nothing says “small government” like having politicians run college sports.
A notable legal defeat for the Trump administration
The Cato Institute, Michael McConnell, and I filed an amicus brief in litigation challenging Trump's massive Section 301 tariffs, which use "forced labor" as a pretext for sweeping protectionism.
A lawsuit argues that a recently passed law to protect immigration service providers in California is "overbroad and vague."
Why the major questions and nondelegation doctrines bolster the legal case against Trump's Section 338 tariffs.
This year's Sumner Canary Memorial Lecture at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
A challenge to the federal prohibition on home distilling could give the Supreme Court a chance to rein in Congress’ Commerce Clause power.
This is what happens when you give the government control over artistic institutions.
The decision ends a yearlong legal war spanning multiple lawsuits, contradictory state and federal court orders, and repeated appeals to the Supreme Court.
Challenging his conviction for illegal gun possession, Curtis Squire argues that the Commerce Clause cannot justify bans on intrastate, noncommercial conduct.
After an ICE watcher in Springfield won a temporary injunction against ICE in a First Amendment lawsuit, the agency moved the officers accused of harassing him out of town.
Twenty-five years after the attacks, control and distrust rule the institutions that process foreigners who travel or immigrate to the United States.
The panic is pretty silly, since these facilities are necessary to power industries that power our economy and fund state budgets.
The Court rightly ruled the executive branch has no authority to restrict mail-in voting.
Given the Second Amendment's history, several briefs argue, a gun's suitability for militia service suggests Americans have a right to possess it.
Plus: Data center backlash, Anthropic job-loss predictions, and more...
Unwise policies are not always unlawful policies.
The brief explains why the Section 122 tariffs are illegal and run afoul of the major questions and nondelegation doctrines.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Taylor Rogers didn't show that it was clearly established that it was excessive force to be held down on a pile of fire ants while handcuffed.
"Alienation of affection" actions like the one Sinema is facing undermine the idea that adults have agency in their romantic and sexual choices.
It seeks to usurp state and congressional power over election administration.
Meanwhile, the top court of Massachusetts considers whether the state can deny carry permits to applicants who are deemed "unsuitable."
In November, we will learn whether Buckeye Republicans have been sufficiently persuaded by a more tolerant vision of the fusion of faith and freedom.
The unusual victory arises from a connection to the Contracts Clause.
The agreement follows a 9th Circuit ruling that the University of Washington violated Stuart Reges' First Amendment rights by treating his dissent as intolerable "disruption."
Olympus Spa—an all-female, nude establishment in Washington state—sued after the government said it had broken the law by refusing to accept a preoperative transgender woman. But the case is more complicated than it looks.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a pair of cases involving rifle restrictions imposed by Connecticut and Cook County, Illinois.
This tort, which lets people sue their spouses' lovers for interfering with the marriage, is litigated in about 150 new cases per year in North Carolina.
By labeling this group a terrorist organization, the state is chilling more than Muslims' freedom of expression.
A new campaign by the Cato Institute aims to educate jurors on their right to vote their conscience against unjust laws and sentences.
In the court of public opinion, there is little room for ambiguity here. But those who watched the trial know that reality is far less satisfying.
Training a model on copyrighted work is the same transformative use exception that protects The New York Times' journalism.
Some Democrats are licking their chops over other economic powers that Trump has claimed for the presidency.
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