Steve Vladeck

President Donald Trump cleared one hurdle yesterday on his quest to impose sweeping new restrictions on mail-in voting

A little-known court tasked with handling highly sensitive deportation cases against alleged alien terrorists has laid dormant since its 1996 creation, lacking even a website for tracking any proceedings before it

A little-known court tasked with handling highly sensitive deportation cases against alleged alien terrorists has laid dormant since its 1996 creation, lacking even a website for tracking any proceedings before it

Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the 6-3 decision, which combined two cases, West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox

US Supreme Court blocks firing of Fed governor

Before the ruling, just five states — Hawaii, California, Maryland, New York and New Jersey — required express permission before someone could come on to private property with a gun

The United States’ newest execution method, nitrogen gas, appears headed toward a legal showdown amid a widening controversy over whether it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment

In his eight years at the helm of America's central bank, Jerome Hayden Powell has guided the U.S. economy through extreme tumult and fought off unprecedented presidential efforts to undermine the Federal Reserve's independence

Instead, Mr. McMaster’s executive order was consistent with his past statements: that the General Assembly needed to fully debate and examine the matter of redistricting before the midterms in November

As the Supreme Court was barreling toward the final weeks of its term last year, Chief Justice John Roberts made a rare public appearance to defend his colleagues from criticism that they were all too eager to kick decades-old precedent to the curb

Trump, who had suggested he wanted to attend a session last year when the court weighed his sweeping tariffs but ultimately abstained, appeared in his signature dark suit and red tie a few minutes before arguments began over his contentious executive order that would limit birthright citizenship

Lower courts upheld ban as professional conduct regulation

Before that, he served as Solicitor General of Missouri from 2017 to 2023

The justices heard arguments in a legal dispute involving a policy called “metering” that the Republican president’s administration may seek to revive after it was dropped by Trump’s Democratic predecessor Joe Biden in 2021

Shortly after President Donald Trump authorized military strikes on Iran, members of Congress were left confronting a familiar reality: they had been informed of the operation but given no role in approving it, once again highlighting their limited authority over war under the Trump Administration

Like with the US bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities last summer and the January military capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the attacks bring the issue of executive authority and the extent of presidential powers to the forefront

He may need a distraction even bigger than bombing Iran and releasing secret files on UFOs and aliens

In an opinion running more than twice as long as the 21 pages Chief Justice John Roberts used to resolve the case, Justice Neil Gorsuch took his colleagues on the left and the right to task for their views of the doctrine, which stipulates that Congress “speak clearly” when it is granting a president power to deal with matters of “major” economic or political significance

Close Federal immigration sweep in Manhattan's Chinatown leads to chaos and arrests

The ruling by a conservative 2-1 panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals marked the first time an appeals court has sustained the policy, which came despite hundreds of lower-court judges declaring it unlawful

President Donald Trump has promoted dozens of different lies about American elections

But in recent weeks, that drumbeat of subtle alarm has metastasized into a full-blown clarion call by judges across the country, who are now openly castigating what they say are systematic and intentional abuses by the administration

Minnesota Chief Judge Orders ICE Director to Appear Before Court

Tim Walz called the Justice Department’s (DOJ) Minnesota investigation a “partisan distraction” on Tuesday

The death toll for Venezuelan security officials comes after Cuba’s government on Sunday announced that 32 Cuban military and police officers working in Venezuela had also been killed

Maduro’s arrest mirrors a US prosecution of a Latin American strongman 36 years ago — for now

The death toll for Venezuelan security officials comes after Cuba’s government on Sunday announced that 32 Cuban military and police officers working in Venezuela had also been killed

The president invoked the 18th century Alien Enemies Act last March to rapidly deport alleged members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang he designated as a foreign terrorist organization that was acting in concert with Maduro’s government to harm the US

A newly unsealed US Justice Department indictment accuses captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of running a “corrupt, illegitimate government” fueled by an extensive drug-trafficking operation that flooded the U.S. with thousands of tons of cocaine

New York: A newly unsealed US Justice Department indictment accuses captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro of running a “corrupt, illegitimate government” fuelled by an extensive drug-trafficking operation that flooded the United States with thousands of tonnes of cocaine

Maduro is now in detention in New York awaiting a court appearance on Monday on drug charges

The United States intervention in Venezuela to abduct President Nicolás Maduro is not law enforcement extended beyond its borders