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This is the 15,000th post on Legal History Blog.  No less than at its founding by Mary Dudziak almost twenty years ago, it remains committe...

On Tuesday’s edition of “Closer Look,” program host Rose Scott talked with Laurie Blank, a clinical professor of law and director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University, who ...

The Trump administration's capture of Venezuela's president and plans to “run” the country are raising stark new questions about the legality of the U.S. moves under a broader campaign against the Sou...

A Russian-flagged vessel was boarded in the North Atlantic. Another ship was apprehended near the Caribbean.

Questioned over the weekend about how the U.S. government will take over governing Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio instead shifted the focus to the U.S. blockade of sanctioned oil tankers. C...

The Senate is expected to be briefed at 10 a.m. Wednesday, with a House briefing scheduled later in the day.

A federal officer has shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel during an arrest Wednesday. That's according to officials.

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In the first State of the Union address of his second term, President Donald Trump proclaimed that “our nation is back, bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before.” But our review of his speech found that he distorted a number of facts about t...

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The Pentagon said it received an anonymous $130 million donation to pay the military during the US government shutdown, a move the administration might not legally be able to carry out.

See where the troops called upon by President Trump are working, what they are doing, and under whose authority.

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Four sitting US Supreme Court justices and a trio of presidents are eligible to collect checks from Anthropic PBC’s $1.5 billion deal with authors whose books were part of a pirated database the AI co...

Even if the Trump administration funded the food assistance program immediately, experts tell PBS News that many of the 42 million SNAP recipients are unlikely to get their benefits on time.

The last time a U.S. president invoked the Insurrection Act was 1992 at the request of California’s governor.

The president’s drug war could be designed to topple the regime of Nicolás Maduro.

Through shrouded bureaucratic maneuvers, White House budget director Russell Vought and DOGE have quietly undercut outbreak response, HIV treatment and dementia care.

New Pentagon data show climate impacts are shaping reservists’ mission, in potential conflict with their use in law enforcement.

Oregon, Illinois, and California are among the targeted states. They all went for Kamala Harris in 2024.

This surprising denial of medical privacy is the result of our current approach to workers' compensation.

A courtroom in Washington has become the latest battleground over President Donald Trump's federal law enforcement intervention

President Donald Trump has repeatedly tested the boundaries of executive power since his return to office and is exploring uncharted legal territory with threats to carry out mass firings during the federal government shutdown, legal experts and lawmake...

Even if Trump loses his 9th Circuit appeal of a federal judge’s decision, the Insurrection Act would likely give him the power he seeks.

Mathew Palmer, a Delta flight attendant, was suspended by the airline the day after writing a Facebook post about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Court battles have slowed down deployments, but the Trump administration may have more legal leverage.

What we learned from legal anthropologist Deepa Das Acevedo about the “war on tenure.”

A presentation by scientists on a work group for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel highlighted various alleged “safety uncertainties” of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, including those about cancer and changes to the im...

As public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court continues to decline, the court should adopt a collegial framework in which all justices decide questions of recusal together — a reform that respects both ju...

A federal congresswoman’s effort to dismiss federal charges against her is raising for the first time whether the broad immunity the US Supreme Court conferred to President Donald Trump equally applie...