"This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear," Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson warned.
Several businesses harmed by Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs have filed a lawsuit challenging his use of emergency economic powers.
The Supreme Court seems likely to agree that a member of the National Labor Relations Board may be fired by the president at will.
More litigation is required to find out which kits and unfinished parts are subject to regulation.
"It appears that access to this court was improperly denied," an attorney for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press says.
RFK Jr. should accept the ruling and instruct the agency to immediately halt all efforts to regulate laboratory-developed and in vitro tests.
Conservatives are picking up the unconstitutional weapons that intolerant progressives have deployed against them.
An unconstitutional act is still unconstitutional even if lots of people support it.
The move is an escalation of the White House's attempt to claim an unchallengeable and unreviewable amount of power.
Plus: Rehiring federal workers, using Signal to orchestrate bombing the Houthis, and more...
The judge ruled that Donald Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's executive orders targeting "gender ideology" can't change the fact that drag performance is expressive conduct under the First Amendment.
State Attorneys General appear more interested in lining up with their political tribe than they are in defending state interests.
Courts stop DOGE from accessing Social Security Administration data and prevent Homeland Security from deporting Georgetown fellow Badar Khan Suri.
Linda Martin's lawsuit alleges that the agency violated her right to due process when it took her $40,200 and sent her a notice failing to articulate the reason.
We can't be sure, and that's why due process matters.
Journals allegedly written by the government's star witness in 2015 were not authentic, prosecutors now say.
A Trump administration official admits that there is little specific evidence tying some deportees to any crime—and argues that the lack of evidence should be taken as proof of criminality.
Plus: Texas midwife arrested for violating abortion ban, JFK files, Gaza bombings, astronauts finally rescued, and more...
The White House invoked a rare wartime law to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador, sparking a legal battle.
The judge found that the agency's "unusual secrecy" and "substantial authority" make it subject to public record laws.
Whether or not a reasonable police officer violates clearly established law when he declines to check the features and address of his target house before raiding it is thus still up for debate.
The law is wasteful and protectionist. Now, a new lawsuit argues that it is unconstitutional too.
Nearly a dozen lawsuits allege that DOGE's access to government payment and personnel systems violates a litany of federal privacy and record-handling laws.
Vice President J.D. Vance believes presidents can ignore the courts in some situations. Are we heading for a constitutional crisis?
The administration may be moving in that direction. If it does so and gets away with it, the consequences are likely to be dire.
Federal judges in Washington and Maryland say the president's attack on birthright citizenship flouts the 14th Amendment and 127 years of judicial precedent.
Elon Musk sues seven more companies for pulling advertising from his platform.
In a jaw-dropping argument, the Department of Justice claims seizing $50,000 from a small business doesn’t violate property rights because money isn’t property.
Curtrina Martin's petition attracted support from a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
“I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is,” said Judge John C. Coughenour.
A unanimous Supreme Court decision established as much in 1965.
In a federal lawsuit, artists say their nonfungible tokens should be treated like physical art.
Is the Climate Superfund Act unconstitutional?
A local government gave ownership of Kevin Fair's Nebraska house—and all of its value—to a private investor, in a practice known as home equity theft.
Plus: Biden's last-minute Ukraine cash surge, Tennessee age-verification law blocked, Kentucky man killed by cop who showed up at wrong house, and more…
Federal prosecutors argued that John Moore and Tanner Mansell stole property when they hauled in a fishing line they mistakenly believed had been set by poachers.
Whether or not the government is required under the 5th Amendment to pay such victims will remain an open question.
because there's not enough evidence that the response would recur (which is what is required for an injunction, which is a forward-looking remedy).
A judge says the federal law has no constitutional basis and threatens First and Fourth Amendment rights.
Having a large market share may just mean that a company is really good at what it does.
U.S. District Judge Stephen McGlynn says the law bans firearms covered by the Second Amendment and is not supported by historical precedent.
A federal court recently said the Internet Archive is not protected by fair use doctrine.
A federal court denied them the right to sue—despite Congress enacting a law five decades ago specifically for situations like this one.
By prosecuting the website's founders, the government chilled free speech online and ruined lives.
But consumers will pay a price.
The state has been demanding that TV stations remove political ads in support of a reproductive freedom amendment on the ballot this year.
Priscilla Villarreal's case is about whether certain reporters have more robust free speech rights than others.
The film ties together years of reporting on a legal saga with broad implications for both free speech and sex work.
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