Where normal people see “rights,” the White House sees privileges that the president may grant or withhold as he sees fit.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article was published in partnership with Slate. During President Donald Trump’s second term, much of the work of implementing his anti-immigrant agenda has been public, ugly, and violent: the ...

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 ...