For twenty-five years I never had to think about freedom-of-information requests, but in the last year I have been the subject of two such requests.

The petitioners appear to lose a vote they might need in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County.

A quick rejoinder to Ben Zycher on the EPA's rescission of the endangerment finding.

A potentially significant rebuke of one of the more controversial and unusual elements of the Trump Administration's energy policy.

A Virginia judge turned Karyann Parkinson’s parenting decision into a crime, and put her on the child-abuse registry.

U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond has a reputation as a stern, no-nonsense jurist. He is weighing what to do in a controversial post-conviction case marked by accusations of lawyer misconduct.

Fellow blogger Justin Levitt wrote an excellent piece in 2024 about the scourge of “electoral-process porn.” Variations of these stories crop up with varying degrees of interest, then dissipate when t...

The second Trump Administration insists on acting unilaterally, and that will make many of its policy changes unsustainable over time.

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's Abundance was one of the most talked about policy books of 2025. In broad strokes, the book…

Yet another federal court opinion dismissing constitutional climate change claims.

This morning, declaring that "the White House is the People's House," a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals…

OT 2026 leads off with climate litigation.

In February, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a regulation rescinding the so-called "endangerment finding"--the finding that the emission of greenhouse…

Members of the Federal Trade Commission are no longer protected from presidential removal without cause. Humphrey's Executor--or whatever was left of…

Or, What to Make of Polarized SCOTUS Commentary

YouTube video by University of Virginia School of Law

A review of this term’s decisions shows the court’s conservatism sometimes intersects with Trump’s, but not always. Though Trump had major losses, he also won new powers.

Opinion: Imposing a uniform "hold open" date for job offers to law students would likely put much-needed brakes on accelerated recruiting.

Leave it to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to divide the justices in an unusual way.