The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has embraced the concept of a “colorblind Constitution” in ending the use of race in college admissions, and now in reshaping how electoral maps are drawn acr...

A federal judge pressed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on how lower courts are supposed to interpret the Supreme Court’s increasingly common and often unexplained emergency orders.

The Giants remembered that baseball is a form of family entertainment then went out and beat the Dodgers again Tuesday night.

Three conservative Supreme Court justices, including Neil Gorsuch, insisted this week that they’re not political actors while defending an institution they claim is wrongly viewed through a partisan l...

Tensions are starting to boil over at the US Supreme Court.

Former clerks to the late Justice Antonin Scalia argued in nearly three dozen cases—or 52% of the docket— before the US Supreme Court this term, far more than clerks from any other chambers.

The Justice Department is curtailing election year coordination aimed at protecting state-run voting processes, increasing risks of the Trump administration interfering in the November midterms or unw...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized a fellow member of the US Supreme Court for failing to grasp the real-world effects of an unsigned order last year that allowed immigration enforcement sweeps in Los...

Federal trial judges are starting to invoke President Donald Trump’s vision of a unitary executive against him in cases linked to his administration’s immigration crackdown.

Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro is unlikely to escape prosecution in Manhattan federal court on drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges, even if his overnight capture by US forces breached inter...

Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...

The Trump administration may target the independent litigation authority of federal agencies if the Supreme Court grants the president the power he seeks to fire executive branch employees at will, a ...

A blog post attacking the legal basis behind President Donald Trump’s tariffs helped set in motion a lawsuit central to the dispute over presidential power that will be considered by the US Supreme Co...

A Chicago-area toy company is among the businesses arguing to the justices this week that most of the president’s tariffs should be struck down.

Small businesses are turning to prominent litigator Neal Katyal to argue at the Supreme Court that the bulk of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are unlawful after a coin toss landed in his favor.

“Kavanaugh Stops” is a reference to conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote in a case last month that encounters with immigration agents for legal residents are “typically brief”...

President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to let him immediately deploy National Guard troops in Chicago.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh raised the prospect of extending the Supreme Court’s logic that affirmative action in college admissions needed an “end point” to race-based redistricting.

At least a third of senior career leaders have left the Justice Department since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, taking with them centuries of combined expertise, according to a Blo...

The Justice Department is consolidating civil rights attorney hiring authority with a handful of Trump-aligned supervisors, departing from practices that were designed to avoid politicization, accordi...

The Supreme Court’s repeated grants of emergency relief to the Trump administration is creating fissures in the judiciary, while empowering the president to fight any lower court judge’s intervention.

US prosecutors have charged numerous people with assaulting or resisting federal officers since mid-August in cases leveling allegations mirroring those brought against Jan. 6 defendants that Presiden...

It’s good news for Apple and Microsoft among others. Plus: Are companies doing AI all wrong?

The former deputy for New Jersey’s US attorney claims she was fired in “direct retaliation” for judges appointing her as the state’s top federal prosecutor.

House Judiciary Democrats plan to introduce legislation that would move the federal agency tasked with protecting federal judges out of the Justice Department and into the judicial branch, amid rising...

The Trump administration is ratcheting up its threats of prosecution against Democrats and other critics, in an escalation of its use of the legal system to go after the president’s perceived enemies.

The Justice Department removed the acting national security head from his post hours after Attorney General Pam Bondi saw a portrait of former President Joe Biden continuing to hang in the division’s ...

The Justice Department is dropping a case accusing Southwest Key Programs, a Texas-based nonprofit that offers housing for thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, of failing to act on pervasive s...

The Justice Department plans to drop a Biden-era lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by employees of a company that houses thousands of unaccompanied migrant children and has received billions of dollars in...

USAID can’t release FOIA documents due to “recent developments.” Meanwhile, a memo sent to DHS FOIA officers this week directs them to “maximize transparency” when processing public records requests.

A White House declaration that Elon Musk is operating as a mere adviser as he pushes a relentless campaign to slash government spending is setting up a constitutional clash over the billionaire Trump ...

Attorneys representing former Cognizant Technology executives about to go on trial sought a dismissal directly from the Justice Department’s No. 2 official the day after President Donald Trump ordered...

The US Federal Trade Commission Friday sued PepsiCo Inc. Friday under a rarely invoked 1930s law called the Robinson-Patman Act that bars price discrimination against retailers.

Republican Rep. Ben Cline (Va.) is continuing a legislative push to strip the Federal Trade Commission of its role overseeing competition in the economy and to house federal antitrust enforcement sole...

Units of CVS Health Corp., Cigna Group and UnitedHealth Group Inc. charged significantly more than the national average acquisition cost on dozens of specialty generic drugs, bringing in more than $7....