"If H.B. 71 goes into effect, Students will be subjected to unwelcome displays of the Ten Commandments for the entirety of their public school education. There is no opt-out option," the court's opinion reads.
Plus: A criminal justice case that managed to unite Alito and Gorsuch.
The parliamentarian ruled it cannot be enacted as part of a reconciliation bill not subject to the filibuster.
How the Colorado Supreme Court has nullified Colorado constitutional limits on taxes, debt, and corporate privilege.
For some restaurants in the state, local shrimp sales account for 90 percent of their revenue.
On this anniversary, I have posted two new articles related to one of the Supreme Court's most controversial decisions.
The strikes violate both the Constitution and the 1973 War Powers Act. Whether they are good policy is a more difficult question. This could turn out to be a rare instance where one of Trump's illegal actions has beneficial results.
Trump's attack on Iran plainly violates the War Powers Act. Limits on executive power are most important when they are inconvenient.
The provision requires litigants seeking preliminary injunctions against illegal government actions to post potentially enormous bonds.
Why Sen. Mike Lee's plan to sell public land doesn't go far enough
A federal judge didn't buy the Trump administration's claims about why it was keeping Khalil in an federal immigration detention center.
Iranians are already beginning to flee to neighboring countries.
Although the appeals court said the president probably complied with the law he invoked to justify his California deployment, it emphasized that such decisions are subject to judicial review.
The ruling is the latest in long line of court decisions striking down executive efforts to attach conditions to federal grants that were not approved by Congress.
But that's not what the law says.
Social Security’s board of trustees expects the program to be insolvent in eight years.
Plus: The Supreme Court upholds a state ban on transgender care for minors.
A religious group using psilocybin mushrooms in ceremonies "put the State of Utah's commitment to religious freedom to the test," a federal judge wrote.
A Biden-era rule mandates two-person freight crews. But the government admits it lacks evidence that is necessary—and is instead relying on "common sense."
With the culture war blazing, not even the Supreme Court could agree on the medical facts of the case.
The government's lawyer told a 9th Circuit panel the president's deployments are "unreviewable," so he need not even pretend to comply with the statute on which he is relying.
The Court's majority avoids the larger question of whether laws targeting transgender individuals should be subject to heightened scrutiny, but Justice Barrett did not.
After accounting for the dynamic effects of the Trump-backed tax bill, the CBO concludes it will add $2.8 trillion to the deficit over 10 years.
Twenty years after Susette Kelo lost at the Supreme Court, the land where her house once stood is still an empty lot.
Perceptions of Amy Coney Barrett may have changed more than her jurisprudence or voting record.
States keep banning lab-grown meat. Entrepreneurs keep innovating anyway.
The Antisemitism Awareness Act threatens the First Amendment by empowering federal bureaucrats to police political and religious expression.
Plus: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on wax.
Now is the perfect time for the FCC to change its precedent to comply with the First Amendment.
On its face, the law gives the president sweeping authority to deploy the military in response to domestic disorder.
It’s not the only way the Republican senator is closer to democratic socialism than to traditional conservatism.
A new state law will make it harder to waive inspections.
Deportation means expelling an alien back to their home country for violating immigration law. Many of the Trump administration's actions don't meet that definition.
The Senate has adopted its own version of a provision designed to limit preliminary injunctions against the federal government when no bond is posted.
My contribution to an interdisciplinary symposium on "Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court, and American Constitutionalism"
It requires litigants seeking preliminary injunctions against illegal government actions to post potentially enormous bonds.
Joe Biden showed that the 25th Amendment doesn't work. Donald Trump showed that impeachment is broken too.
Downsizing pushed the Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to adopt tech solutions that it could have tried years ago.
A blow to recent arrivals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer concluded that the president failed to comply with the statute he cited—and violated the 10th Amendment too.
