Nuts and Bolts is a recurring series by Stephen Wermiel providing insights into the mechanics of how the Supreme Court works.

Edward Lazarus, a former clerk to the late Justice Harry Blackmun, called it a “single marathon session.” Gregory Garre, who ...

Louisiana's fight with New York over abortion pills could go before the U.S. Supreme Court and may help define the legal ...

The justices, having effectively blessed partisan gerrymandering, may be poised to eliminate the remaining pillar of the ...

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman ruled that President Trump's administration cannot withhold citizenship from children ...

The Supreme Court signaled its appetite to pull more teeth from the Voting Rights Act, rendering it all but biteless.

A federal judge in Maryland has ruled the Trump administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born to people in ...

The court’s steady effort to make the law an artifact of the past is of a piece with its broad expansion of executive power ...

Not only did Acosta go light on Epstein, but he also gave a free pass to other wrongdoers. The nonprosecution agreement ...

President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a lower court order that barred U.S.

Unless members of the Supreme Court are held accountable, their decisions may continue to concentrate power in the executive ...

President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow immigration enforcement officials to ...