The Supreme Court will determine whether immigration officers must have clear and convincing evidence that a lawful permanent resident committed a disqualifying crime at the time of reentry, or if the government can rely on evidence produced later in remova...
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and 23 other attorneys general — representing 23 states and the District of Columbia — filed an amicus brief supporting a class of children challenging President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright ci...
A federal judge held that a Wisconsin state trooper violated the Fourth Amendment by searching a vehicle passenger's clothing after a K9 alerted to the truck he was riding in, and denied the trooper qualified immunity.
The Northern District of Indiana has denied a motion for judgment as a matter of law in a civil rights suit where a jury returned a mixed verdict against Indiana State Prison guards over allegations of excessive force.
A coalition of 24 attorneys general and one governor filed suit in federal court challenging a presidential executive order they argue would strip states of their constitutional authority to run elections and disenfranchise millions of eligible voters.
A multistate coalition argues that a new presidential order unconstitutionally strips states of control over their own election systems and directs the Postal Service to block ballot delivery.
The D.C. Circuit vacated preliminary injunctions that had blocked the Federal Bureau of Prisons from transferring eighteen transgender women plaintiffs to men’s facilities, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success on their Ei...
A federal judge clarified that his preliminary injunction against a proposed White House ballroom stops above-ground construction but allows below-ground national security facilities to proceed — rejecting the government's argument that the entire project f...
The Trump administration has filed five uninvited amicus briefs in the last 13 months urging the Supreme Court to grant review in high-profile cases, potentially shaping precedential outcomes in religious freedom, criminal law, and voting rights.
An 8-1 Supreme Court ruling holding that Colorado's ban on licensed counselors attempting to change minors' sexual orientation or gender identity is subject to strict First Amendment scrutiny has exposed a rare fracture among the court's three liberal justi...
A divided D.C. Circuit panel issued a writ of mandamus Tuesday terminating the district court's criminal contempt investigation into the Trump administration's March 2025 transfer of alleged Tren de Aragua members to Salvadoran custody, ruling that the unde...
A divided D.C. Circuit panel issued a writ of mandamus terminating a district court's criminal contempt investigation into whether senior executive branch officials willfully violated a temporary restraining order when they transferred Venezuelan Tren de Ar...
The Supreme Court heard argument in a capital case testing whether a Mississippi trial judge's failure to conduct the third step of a Batson inquiry — and his repeated assurances that the defense's objection was already in the record — can be treated as a w...
A federal judge held that four former Boston Police Department officers are shielded by qualified immunity from a wrongful-conviction lawsuit brought by a man whose two first-degree murder convictions were vacated after more than two decades in prison.
A federal district court declined to adopt a magistrate's summary-judgment recommendation in a Fifth Amendment takings suit, finding the claim potentially unripe after Massachusetts amended the very statute the plaintiff's case was built on.
A pro se candidate's First and Fourteenth Amendment challenge to Tennessee's ballot-designation statutes remains pending, but his bid for emergency relief was denied on procedural grounds.
The Supreme Court heard argument in a case that could reshape how federal courts handle appeal waivers in plea agreements, with justices across the ideological spectrum skeptical of both parties' positions.
The Supreme Court heard argument in a case testing whether the federal ban on gun possession by "unlawful users" of controlled substances can constitutionally be applied to a habitual marijuana user.
The justices pressed both sides hard on whether the Fifth Amendment requires fair market value — not just auction proceeds — when a county seizes a home over a small tax debt.
The Supreme Court heard argument on whether the 1996 Helms-Burton Act abrogates the foreign sovereign immunity of Cuban government instrumentalities, bypassing the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act entirely.