Trump v. Slaughter is among the most important tests to date of the Supreme Court’s view of the “unitary executive theory” – ...

The Supreme Court needs to do a better job explaining its emergency rulings, including recent ones siding with the Trump administration, Justice Elena Kagan said on July 24. “Courts are supposed to ...

Justice Elena Kagan’s broadside against the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” — sometimes called its “emergency” one — puts in sharp relief the liberal critique of how the conservative justices are ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean ...

Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch drew laughter with a well-timed quip after liberal Justice Elena Kagan spent several minutes torpedoing Trump Solicitor General John Sauer during ...

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan grilled U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer on the practicalities of ending universal injunctions on Thursday, a major sticking point in a highly watched case centered ...

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday publicly chided her conservative colleagues for deciding -- at least temporarily -- nearly a dozen consequential disputes over President Donald Trump's ...

Presidential orders and ramped up federal immigration enforcement have placed state and local officials in uncharted territory. (Department of Homeland Security photo) In the first week of his second ...

Last week the Supreme Court gave the country one notable gift in blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to deploy the ...

The Supreme Court and lower courts clashed multiple times in contentious cases in 2025, a year of fierce legal battles.

In the first week of his second term, President Donald Trump rescinded a 2011 policy prohibiting immigration enforcement in ‘sensitive’ places such as schools, churches, and hospitals; expanded ...