The Justice Department’s rollback of disparate impact is just one new policy that makes it harder for people of color to ...

From the “judges” deciding cases to the “rules” of evidence, every aspect of immigration court is stacked against the people caught up in it.

In 2018, the Tennessee Department of Corrections brought Harold Wayne Nichols from death row to the Hamilton County Courthouse. He didn’t think he’d be going back to death row afterwards; his ...

Two weeks ago, a federal district court declared Texas Republicans’ proposal to redraw the state’s congressional districts to be an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and blocked it from taking ...

On Monday, a divided federal appeals court lifted an order which had temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon. Trump has sought to use the ...

In early 1981, there was probably no more exciting place for young, ambitious Republican lawyers than the U.S. Department of Justice, which the journalist Ari Berman has described as “the nerve center ...

In the early hours of September 30, nearly 300 masked ICE agents descended upon an apartment complex in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, pouring out of the backs of U-Haul vans on the street ...

The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, two consolidated cases that aim to kill off the remnants of the Voting Rights Act—and, with it, the ability ...

On October 15, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, a pair of consolidated cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ...

Traditionally, when asked in public settings to talk about how they do their jobs, Supreme Court justices have spent a lot of time extolling the virtues of stare decisis—the principle that judges ...

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing for Rebecca Taibleson, President Donald Trump’s pick for a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Under most Republican ...