Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promised that the federal government would reimburse the state for the costs of "Alligator Alcatraz," but doing so would make the detention facility subject to environmental reviews Florida ignored.
Crackdowns on AI chatbots over perceived risks to children's safety could ultimately put more children at risk.
George Retes was denied access to an attorney, wasn’t allowed to make a phone call, was not presented to a judge, and was put in an isolation cell before being released with no charges.
The employee sued, claiming the firing was retaliation; the jury found for the hospital, and the Sixth Circuit upheld the verdict (among other things upholding the admission of evidence of the employee's interest in BDSM).
"The Supreme Court has recently confirmed that the Free Exercise Clause does not prohibit a state from providing 'a strictly secular education in its public schools'"—and, the court held, that extends to California charter schools and their parental "home-based direct instruction approved by the school and coordinated, evaluated, and supervised by state-certified teachers."
Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins, who once opposed government jawboning, now says people should be banned from both social media and public life over their posts.
Federal judge allows "pattern or practice" claim of discrimination against Jews by coffee shop to go forward.
Equating drug trafficking with armed aggression, the president asserts the authority to kill anyone he perceives as a threat to "our most vital national interests."
The justice’s stance on immigration enforcement is undermined by the facts of the case before him.
Selling just a fraction of the land would reduce our enormous debt.
Federal rules under the Endangered Species Act often treat landowners as adversaries. Recent court victories suggest a better way forward.
With Congress essentially AWOL, the courts offer the only real check on presidential power.
So the Second Circuit held today, concluding that the facts surrounding this particular exclusion showed hostility to religion, and not just the neutral application of generally applicable rules.
Two years after the state attorney general charged dozens of protesters with racketeering, a judge found the case unconvincing.
A billion-dollar rebrand won’t change the fact that defense hasn’t meant defense in decades.
The Supreme Court will hear Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety this fall.
Nixon's director of the Office of Economic Opportunity set out to shrink government, mostly failed, and was gone in less than a year. Sound familiar?
It builds on an earlier piece in The Hill
The same legal theory that tripped up Joe Biden's student loan scheme could also sink Donald Trump's tariffs.
Analysts expect the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to reduce the number of remittance payments sent abroad.
A bill meant to fight AI deepfakes could devastate creativity in games like Fallout: New Vegas, Skyrim, and Minecraft, where mods keep old titles alive.
Minnesota's proposed firearm restrictions raise serious constitutional questions—and offer little in return.
Tens of thousands of people die each year in crashes where human error was the cause or a contributing factor.
"Whether a case cite is obtained from a law review article, a hornbook, or through independent legal research, the duty to ensure that any case cited to a court is "good law" is nearly as old as the practice of law."
There is no hard evidence of Gmail discriminating against Republican campaign emails, but that’s no matter to the FTC Chairman.
Justice Kavanaugh on what to call the "shadow docket" now that it is no longer in the shadows.
Killing suspected drug traffickers is both unjust and illegal. And it could be the start of an effort to turn the already awful War on Drugs into something more like a real war, thereby making it even worse.
The ban's supporters, whose motivation is plainly protectionist, claim they are defending freedom by restricting it.
Over the past two decades, scores of business owners across the nation have sought to refuse services for same-sex weddings, an SMU Law School study finds
Plus: A momentous date in the life of Frederick Douglass
The 2-1 ruling is in line with most previous court decisions on Trump's invocation of the AEA. Judge Oldham wrote an extremely long, but significantly flawed, dissent.
The appeals court blocked the removal of alleged Venezuelan gang members under that law "because we find no invasion or predatory incursion."
Plus: Bombing "narco-terrorists" in the Caribbean, American manufacturing shrinks for the sixth consecutive month, Massie wants the Epstein files, and more...
The federal law relies on a risible reading of the Commerce Clause to restrict a constitutional right.
Donald Trump's claim that the appeals court ruled against him for partisan or ideological reasons is hard to take seriously.
The Administration's arguments have more doctrinal support than some might think
An antiquated law gives high school and college football first dibs on Fridays and Saturdays.
"The Federal Reserve is a uniquely structured, quasi-private entity," the Supreme Court wrote in a ruling this year.
Seven judges agreed that the president's assertion of unlimited authority to tax imports is illegal and unconstitutional.
Guatemalans don't wait for the government's permission. They build their own markets through voluntary exchange.
The mayor abandoned the plan after it aroused strong political resistance and threats of litigation.
Florida officials can’t agree on whether unpasteurized milk is a health threat or benefit, leaving consumers more confused than if they were left to decide for themselves.
In a 7-4 ruling, the en banc court upheld trial court ruling against all the challenged tariffs. The scope of the injunction against them remains to be determined.
Trump went "beyond the authority delegated to the President," the court ruled, but it vacated an injunction that could have provided immediate tariff relief to American businesses.
