Already, President Donald Trump’s attacks on BigLaw firms have earned him a deep bench of well-credentialed lawyers whom he considers available to serve his agenda at his convenience. Now, even firms ...

If you were crossing your fingers that President Donald Trump’s fixation on executive orders might mean he would forget about judicial nominations, welcome to the club of dashed hopes. Last week, he ...

The Department of Justice announced last week that it dismissed a “half century old Louisiana consent decree” providing for the desegregation of public schools in Plaquemines Parish, located at the ...

David Souter, whom President George H.W. Bush appointed to the Supreme Court in 1990, and who spent the remainder of his 19-year tenure making conservatives insane with rage, died at his home in New ...

Since Trump won reelection in November, only 18 judges have created new vacancies for him to fill. The vast majority—16 of 18—have been district judges, and13 of those 16 were appointed by Republican ...

Lawyers are used to negotiating artful resolutions of high-stakes legal disputes. Trump is used to his adversaries’ ...

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued a one-page order in United States v. Shilling, an ongoing legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s efforts to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S.

The federal government and conservative news outlets are conducting a smear campaign against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the Trump administration kidnapped and imprisoned in El Salvador, ...

California’s February 2025 bar exam was, in technical terms, a hot-ass mess. Nearly 60 percent of post-exam survey respondents reported that the exam software froze, crashed, or otherwise became ...

The basis of the administration’s actions at both DOJ and the Department of Agriculture is a tortured reading of Title IX, a federal statute that prohibits sex discrimination in any education-related ...

Coverage of the Trump administration’s attacks on the legal profession tend to focus on how different law firms have reacted to the many executive orders targeting them. A more pernicious strategy has ...