Let’s hope Dolly Parton's passing isn’t the last time right and left can be united in admiration and grief.

Roberts allows construction to continue until the court considers the case. Translation: The Congress-skirting monstrosity will get built.

The right danced a jig of joy over Dr. Anthony Fauci’s invoking the Fifth Amendment before Rand Paul’s Senate Homeland Security Committee. The Kentucky Republican knew in advance that Fauci would give...

The president’s fury was part of his success if voters thought his enemies included theirs. But the act is wearing thin.

The president's claims about foreign actors interfering in American elections were erronerous and was the implication of vote manipulation.

The president’s insisting that his Triumphal Arch, the Arc de Trump, fulfills a Congressional vision for the space. Not really.

A new OMB proposal stipulates that every federal research grant adhere to administration ideology, mixing science with political preference.

Blanche can go along with Trump’s schemes, like the settlement slush fund, or become AG. Republican senators are unlikely to let him do both.

Former FBI Director James Comey been indicted again for a threat spelled with seashells. Why this lawfare will falter.

King Charles III gave Congress a polished defense of democracy and alliance. The trouble is that Trump’s America increasingly rejects both.

Trump had to drop the case against Jerome Powell to get a new Fed chair, but it could be revived amid a flurry of selective prosecutions.

Assassinations, like the one the U.S. carried out against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, aren’t illegal under U.S. law. But don’t tell Trump.

Trump’s planned “Arc de Trump” near Arlington reflects a long tradition of strongmen using monuments to project power.

Following her 1975 murder trial, Joan Little became the first woman acquitted for using deadly force to resist sexual assault.

A Fifth Circuit ruling endorses detention without bond for undocumented immigrants. Will John Roberts and SCOTUS do their job?

The president’s denial that he lost to Joe Biden now turns to a Tulsi Gabbard-led fishing expedition. What could go wrong?

Shocking slayings at Brown, Bondi Beach, and of the Reiners, plus the background music of Trump’s dysfunction, cast a pall over the holidays.

Shocking slayings at Brown, Bondi Beach, and of the Reiners, plus the background music of Trump’s dysfunction, cast a pall over the holidays.

The president has wide latitude to grant clemency, but Trump has broken all pardon norms and sought even more authority to help his allies.

Our heroic lower court judges, and the Justice Department’s war on the only group blocking Trump’s extra-legal push.

I spoke at Jesus College, Cambridge, recently. The latest Trump maneuvers gobsmack our British friends. They’re right to alarmed.

Despite this week’s blue wave, it’s possible the Supreme Court and GOP statehouses could preserve the House Republican majority.

It could give President Trump permission to send the National Guard nationwide to support federal law enforcement.

The president and Governor Pritzker are at war. Now the Supreme Court is involved. Why the Realtor-in-Chief fights with the Hyatt Hotels clan

Federal District Judges Are Worried About the Supreme Court

As the Justice Department wins an indictment against the former FBI director, a one-time federal prosecutor reflects on DOJ’s madness.

The broadcast media cowardice following the MAGA crackdown on free speech is stunning. Jimmy Kimmel is Exhibit A.

My uncle presciently anticipated the president’s restoration of the Department of War and his effort to change the Great Seal.

The Supreme Court’s shadow docket ruling lets Trump block $783M in NIH grants for DEI, gender identity, and COVID-19 research.

With law enforcement, emergency powers, and the pardon pen at his disposal, Trump has transformed the presidency into an engine of revenge.

Trump's troop deployment in the nation's capital isn't helping with crime, which is down. More and better policing is what's needed.

Looking for a Seat on the Supreme Court, Judge James Ho of Texas Spouts the Party Line on a migrant "invasion."

The Supreme Court’s shadow docket has become Trump’s secret weapon, delivering swift anonymous rulings to hand him wins.

Trump's third-country deportations are becoming commonplace, a violation of statute enabled by the Supreme Court.

Despite promises, Trump’s ties to Epstein may stay sealed. Judges, politics, and the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling all stand in the way.

By allowing Trump to ignore the law and crush the Education Department, the conservative justices let the president do whatever he wants.

Trump nominee Emil Bove’s record of court defiance and loyalty raises serious concerns about his independence and a potential SCOTUS seat.

The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Casa, Inc. strips nationwide protection from birthright citizenship, aiding Trump's autocratic agenda

The Supreme Court blocked nationwide injunctions, letting Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship stand. Barrett’s analogy says it all.

Conservative SCOTUS justices upheld, for now, the administration’s deportation of migrants to places other than their country of origin.

The shootings of Democratic politicians in Minnesota renews questions about whether MAGA and Trump rhetoric are encouraging violence

Let’s just say the institutional and public response to the administration’s assault on civil liberties, while at times inspiring, hasn’t met the moment.

After most Trump Tariffs were shot down by a trade court last month, all eyes turn to the Supreme Court and its Major Questions Doctrine.

If confirmed, the president’s personal lawyer and now top DOJ official would join the Supreme Court shortlist

The president’s inability to distinguish between public and private interests reaches new heights with the gift of a foreign 747.