Legal scholars argue that when executive branch agencies impose conditions on federal funds, courts should give these cases special scrutiny.
Republicans hold both chambers and publicly back the president’s signature bill that would curtail mail-in voting and enforce strict voter ID laws. Here, a public policy and politics scholar explains why it still isn’t law.
Jackson’s concurrence traces the 14th Amendment to work done by people ‘beyond Congress’ and Black Americans who ‘helped galvanize the push for full equality.’
A former federal judge analyzes key Supreme Court decisions this term, reflects on growing judicial invective evident in its opinions, and judiciously gives praise for some great writing.
From a synagogue’s 5K to Appalachia’s Hillbilly Days, shared celebrations pull strangers together.
Pointing to the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, the high court ruled that all babies born in the United States ‘are citizens by birth.’
A month after a federal judge struck down a law requiring hard proof of citizenship to register to vote in New Hampshire, the state Attorney General’s Office has requested a stay of the decision while it appeals. On May 28, Judge Samantha Elliott of the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire ruled that the Republican […]
Advocates for each side will provide a different explanation for who falls under ‘the jurisdiction’ of the United States.
A federal judge heard opening arguments Monday in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a 2024 state law that requires first-time vot…