Earlier this month, SCOTUSblog hosted its annual Supreme Court “summit” in Washington, D.C. For nearly a quarter-century, ...

On Thursday evening, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered the annual lecture held at the University of the District of ...

On a Monday afternoon in May 2019, someone robbed the Call Federal Credit Union in Midlothian, Virginia, a small town just outside of Richmond. Police knew that an unidentified man entered the bank at ...

For nearly 20 years, Damon Landor adhered to the Nazarite Vow to let his hair “grow long” and let “no razor come upon his head.” And by August 2020, when he began a five-month sentence for drug ...

In 1982, when Congress passed a series of amendments strengthening the Voting Rights Act of 1965, lawmakers wanted to make one thing very clear: that minority voters seeking to prove violations of the ...

American elections are increasingly expensive. Back in 2008, individual donors and groups (like corporations and political parties) spent a total of $574.4 million to influence federal elections. By ...

Against Justice Samuel Alito’s most fervent wishes, a federal district court order that prohibits the U.S. Postal Service ...

On May 21, an immigration judge named Holly D’Andrea participated in an uncommonly candid public conversation about the nation’s immigration courts—and, more specifically, how they are buckling under ...

On the morning of Sunday, September 20, police officers in the Chicago suburb of Evanston responded to a 911 call about a confrontation in the street. When the officers arrived, they found a man on ...

Lebene Konan, a realtor and landlord in Euless, Texas, alleges that United States Postal Service employees have subjected her to a yearslong campaign of racial harassment. In a federal lawsuit she ...

of defying court orders, especially in immigration cases, is not only unlawful; it makes people unsafe. When the executive branch abandons any pretense of respect for people’s rights, it becomes even ...