Kate Riga

A bipartisan group is quietly making a longshot, eleventh-hour attempt to pass federal protections for journalists and other critics before Trump and his famously thin-skinned coterie take over.

As always happens after a bad election loss — and is compounded when that loss is sweeping, and to the man who launched a coup against the country — the losing side is in full panic mode.

While the conservative supermajority of the Supreme Court plainly wields an expansive view of gun rights (and a shrinkingly narrow one of agency power), it occasionally butts up against a plea for deregulation with ramifications too extreme for even these justices.

The 2024 Supreme Court calendar could double as a Fox News primetime lineup: homemade guns, trans rights, minors’ access to porn.

The Supreme Court Thursday ruled not to redefine “income” — a move, pushed aggressively by Justice Neil Gorsuch during oral arguments, that would have headed off various wealth tax proposals that have gained steam on the left, and been a bounty to the very wealthy and corporations.

After a parade of stories centered on Justice Samuel Alito’s demonstrations of his right-wing partisanship, Senate Democrats have executed their big response: a show vote on a bill that would impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the funding structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a massive win for an agency constantly under fire from conservative corporate interest.

Republican-controlled states are sealing the cracks in their anti-abortion regimes by removing the power of, or seeking to punish, Democratic prosecutors who decline to charge people for abortion-related crimes.

The Nevada Supreme Court unanimously greenlit the language of an abortion rights amendment Thursday, putting it on track to feature on the state’s November ballot. A state district judge had blocked…

Trump’s making a bet that feigned moderation will be enough to see him through the election, when he will then be free to impose whichever restrictions his anti-abortion supporters demand.

Abortion will be front and center in Florida’s elections, giving Democrats their best pickup opportunity of the stubbornly out-of-reach state.

An Indiana appeals court Thursday upheld an injunction for plaintiffs arguing that their religious beliefs entitle them to an exemption from the state’s near-total abortion ban. A few individuals and…

McConnell, joined by a conservative law professor and judges, complained Thursday about a new policy to crack down on the judge shopping that has been so beneficial to right-wing litigants.

On Super Tuesday 2020, a fluid and dynamic Democratic primary was calcified as momentum swung towards Joe Biden. Now, when the country is better off by nearly every measure, his footing seems somehow more precarious.

“I view myself as a good textualist,” Justice Elena Kagan said, hitching up an eyebrow at the argument that Congress meant to exclude bump stocks from its machine gun ban. “But textualism is not inconsistent with common sense.”

On Monday, the right-wing justices’ long-held reflexive positioning came into conflict with a newer strain of their ideology: old-school, free market, pro-business conservatism vs. the new age, Trumpian culture wars.

Democrat Tom Suozzi won George Santos’ old seat Tuesday, shrinking Republicans’ already slim House majority and offering a positive sign for Democrats looking ahead to 2024.

The liberal justices often harbored similar concerns to their conservative peers during Thursday’s arguments on disqualifying Trump from the ballot, suggesting a potentially lopsided ruling.

Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Carlos Muñiz kept bringing up an anti-abortion white whale at arguments over the a proposed initiative to protect abortion rights.

Right-wing activists have returned to the well of U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, this time to engineer the demise of Planned Parenthood.