US President Donald Trump claimed that “national unity is now returning to America” in an inaugural speech marked by vows to ...

The Supreme Court majority built by Donald Trump could uphold efforts to expand presidential authority based on the legal ...

Thanks to the Roberts court, Trump’s expanded executive authority includes criminal immunity. While the conservatives maintain that the president needs unencumbered power to faithfully execute the ...

A federal judge just blocked Trump’s domestic spending freeze. His opinion relies heavily on another one by Justice Kavanaugh ...

In 2022, then-President Joe Biden signed the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA), a law that repealed the 1996 Defense of Marriage ...

Last Tuesday, Jan. 21, the day after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, the Kennebec Journal ran a banner headline reading “A Return to Power” on Page 1. Beneath the large headline was a huge photo of ...

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she's found an outlet for the frustration that can result from being ...

To put the point as directly possible, the Supreme Court’s budget depends upon a functioning appropriations power.

As Donald Trump’s federal funding freeze creates a constitutional crisis that seems headed to the Supreme Court, a 1985 memo shows current chief justice John Roberts declaring that a president has no ...

Legal Newsletter readers. The first week of Donald Trump’s second term is in the books. The 47th president took office Monday ...

As Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said nearly two decades ago, “The way to stop discriminating based on race is to ...