Dozens of sitting judges shared with The Times their concerns about risks to the courts’ legitimacy as the Supreme Court releases opaque orders about Trump administration policies.
By Mattathias Schwartz and Zach Montague
It belongs to us. And we can use it to rescue our democracy.
By Kate Andrias
A judge ordered Jones to pay as a result of a defamation lawsuit that he is now asking the Supreme Court to review.
By Ann E. Marimow
The justices will decide whether to strike down a ban on the practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation.
By Natalie Kitroeff, Ann E. Marimow, Olivia Natt, Diana Nguyen, Rachelle Bonja, Rob Szypko, Devon Taylor, M.J. Davis Lin, Paige Cowett, Marion Lozano and Chris Wood
A pivotal term beckons.
By Emily Bazelon and David French
Separately, in the administration’s first 200 days, only two of 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the most senior jobs in government were Black.
By Elisabeth Bumiller and Erica L. Green
In a rare interview, the justice bemoaned vulgarity in public life, discussed his family’s ties to President Trump and reflected on his own history and legacy.
By Adam Liptak
Remember when Republicans loved states’ rights?
By Jamelle Bouie
A majority of the court appeared sympathetic to the argument that political candidates should be able to sue over their states’ election laws. The case is one of several lodged by allies of President Trump.
By Abbie VanSickle
The conservative Christian law firm and advocacy group has been involved in a number of recent cases, including challenges to abortion access and gay and transgender rights.
By Abbie VanSickle
The Supreme Court’s decision in a case challenging Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors would have implications for many states with similar laws.
By Amy Harmon
As the administration’s top advocate before the justices, D. John Sauer has notched several recent Supreme Court victories.
By Abbie VanSickle
It is the most demanding form of judicial review. If it applies, Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy is probably doomed.
By Adam Liptak
The ruling, usually referred to as NIFLA, arose from a First Amendment challenge to California law regulating “crisis pregnancy centers.”
By Adam Liptak
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The practice surged in the 1980s and 1990s, before medical groups began warning it was harmful.
By Ellen Barry
Plus, a new way to fight robocalls.
By Will Jarvis, Ian Stewart, Jessica Metzger, Julie Bosman and Brian X. Chen
The court’s ruling in the Colorado case will have implications for more than 20 other states with similar laws.
By Ann E. Marimow
The president’s claims about cities don’t hold up.
By Stephen I. Vladeck
The emergency order is the latest turn in a longstanding legal dispute between the tech giant and the creator of the popular game Fortnite.
By Abbie VanSickle
La exempleada y amiga de Jeffrey Epstein argumentó que un acuerdo secreto entre unos fiscales y el multimillonario financiero invalidaba su condena.
By Abbie VanSickle
The onetime employee and friend of Jeffrey Epstein argued that a secret agreement between prosecutors and the multimillionaire financier invalidated her conviction.
By Abbie VanSickle
Plus, when Silicon Valley comes to the farm.
By Will Jarvis, Ian Stewart, Jessica Metzger and Abbie VanSickle
As the justices return to the bench Monday, the court will confront a series of cases central to the president’s agenda.
By Ann E. Marimow and Abbie VanSickle
Before the election, we surveyed the legal establishment about what a second Trump term could mean for the rule of law. A year later, they’re very, very worried.
By Emily Bazelon
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The phrase doesn’t appear in the Constitution or its amendments.
By Anthony Kennedy
Colorado and more than 20 other states restrict therapists from trying to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of clients under age 18.
By Ann E. Marimow
Conflicting court rulings have plunged hundreds of thousands of people with temporary protection from deportation into uncertainty.
By Jazmine Ulloa and Allison McCann
What exactly is religion, anyway?
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Trump administration has tried to end deportation protections for more than 300,000 Venezuelan immigrants.
By Ann E. Marimow
The Second Amendment case involves a Hawaii law that generally prohibits firearms on private property that is accessible to the public.
By Abbie VanSickle
Her streak of Supreme Court victories, which began during the New Deal era, benefited millions of workers and continue to shape labor rights today.
By Rebecca Chao
Plus, what Jane Goodall learned among the chimps.
By Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Jessica Metzger and Liam Stack
A Supreme Court order keeping Lisa Cook on the Federal Reserve Board for now is “a time to exhale but not breathe easy,” one expert said.
By Colby Smith
Justice Department lawyers are asking judges to pause their cases until funding resumes.
By Mattathias Schwartz
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Readers sharply criticize the speeches by the president and the secretary of defense. Also: A cynical order from the Supreme Court.
The justices deferred a decision on the president’s efforts to oust Ms. Cook and instead set oral arguments in the case for January.
By Ann E. Marimow and Colby Smith
The decision vacated a finding by a panel of the court’s judges regarding President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants, but did not clear the way for such expulsions to resume.
By Alan Feuer
Three legal experts on an action-packed Supreme Court as it enters a new term.
By Kate Shaw, William Baude and Stephen I. Vladeck
The plane’s owner, an 82-year-old veteran, has asked the Supreme Court to hear his case and set limits on forfeitures of property used to commit crimes.
By Adam Liptak
Los abogados del gobierno pidieron a los jueces que despejaran el camino para la orden ejecutiva del presidente que pone fin a la ciudadanía por derecho de nacimiento.
By Abbie VanSickle
Jadira Bonilla, a kindergarten teacher at a Catholic school in southern New Jersey, was told she might have violated her contract, according to an email shared with The New York Times.
By Camille Baker
Government lawyers asked the justices to clear the way for the president’s executive order ending birthright citizenship.
By Abbie VanSickle
The court’s conservative majority allowed the president to cut the funding in part because it said his flexibility to engage in foreign affairs outweighed “the potential harm” faced by aid recipients.
By Ann E. Marimow
The president’s tariffs on foreign drugs and furniture rely on national security laws outside the scope of current lawsuits.
By Ana Swanson
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The case could rewrite the rules on how businesses make money on Google’s smartphone operating system.
By Abbie VanSickle
Former Fed chairs and U.S. Treasury secretaries also backed Ms. Cook’s retention, for now, warning of erosion in public confidence in the central bank’s independence.
By Ann E. Marimow
This is about so much more than Lisa Cook.
By Jamelle Bouie
Plus, America’s new astronauts.
By Tracy Mumford, Ian Stewart, Jessica Metzger and Emily Baumgaertner Nunn
The justices said they will consider whether to overrule a landmark Supreme Court precedent that has limited the president’s ability to fire top officials at the agency.
By Abbie VanSickle and Ann E. Marimow
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., a conservative Catholic, has visited Rome for decades, often teaching or participating in academic conferences.
By Motoko Rich and Abbie VanSickle
The solicitor general accused a federal trial judge of defying an earlier order from the justices, though one that provided no reasoning.
By Adam Liptak
The Supreme Court has distinguished bully-pulpit persuasion, which is permissible under the First Amendment, from coercion and threats, which are not.
By Adam Liptak
Los funcionarios del gobierno de Trump han hablado mucho de castigar ciertos tipos de mensaje. Esto es lo que dice la ley.
By Adam Liptak
President Trump had pressed to fire Lisa Cook before the central bank’s meeting, at which the Fed voted to cut interest rates.
By Ann E. Marimow
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There has been a lot of talk from Trump administration officials about punishing speech. Here is what the law says.
By Adam Liptak
Many of the rulings in which the justices have cleared the way for President Trump’s agenda have come in terse, unsigned orders.
By Rachel Abrams, Adam Liptak, Mary Wilson, Rikki Novetsky, Michael Simon Johnson, Rob Szypko, Lexie Diao, Devon Taylor, Elisheba Ittoop, Diane Wong, Dan Powell, Rowan Niemisto and Alyssa Moxley
Critics call the expedited rulings, which have become routine in the second Trump administration, the “shadow docket.” The justices have other ideas.
By Adam Liptak
In a notice to Congress, the Trump administration said the additional $58 million would go to the U.S. Marshals Service. It also said it supported additional security for lawmakers.
By Robert Jimison
The second Trump administration has filed roughly the same number of applications so far as the Biden administration did over four years. But they have fared quite differently.
By Adam Liptak
In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis.
By Aziz Z. Huq
A hearing in the case of five migrants deported to Ghana last week showed how earlier Supreme Court rulings have paved the way for President Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
By Chris Cameron
Months have passed since the lawsuit was filed, and many of the fired employees have moved on, the judge noted.
By Eileen Sullivan
Readers discuss the damage to America’s parks. Also: Racial profiling in immigrant sweeps; the 9/11 memorial; phones in the classroom.
The Brazilian Supreme Court did what the U.S. Senate and federal courts tragically failed to do.
By Filipe Campante and Steven Levitsky
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The interim order came after a decision in June on medical care for transgender youths and as the justices prepare to hear arguments on transgender athletes.
By Adam Liptak
For the president, the power to issue limitless tariffs is at the heart of his second-term vision, from trade to foreign policy.
By Tony Romm and Ana Swanson
Jeffrey Toobin talks with Bryan Stevenson about surviving the politics of fear in 2025.
By Bryan Stevenson, Jeffrey Toobin, Derek Arthur and Vishakha Darbha
Los Angeles residents are anxious once again following a Supreme Court ruling that allowed aggressive immigration raids to resume.
By Jill Cowan and Ana Facio-Krajcer
Acting on his own, the chief justice issued an “administrative stay” pausing a trial judge’s ruling while the full court considers the matter.
By Adam Liptak
The justices moved quickly to schedule oral argument to consider the legality of the president’s signature economic initiative.
By Ann E. Marimow and Adam Liptak
The Heritage Foundation’s clause-by-clause analysis, to be published next month, is an originalist manifesto and a showcase for aspiring Supreme Court nominees.
By Adam Liptak
Plus, the fight for control of Fox News.
By Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Ian Stewart, Jessica Metzger and Brian Gallagher
The ruling allowed immigration agents to stop people for reasons that lower courts had deemed likely unconstitutional.
By Charlie Savage
In a studiously bland new book, “Listening to the Law,” the Supreme Court justice describes her legal philosophy and tries to sidestep the court’s recent controversies.
By Jennifer Szalai
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A federal judge had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like a person’s ethnicity or that they speak Spanish.
By Adam Liptak
The court has been largely receptive to the administration’s claims of executive power.
By Adam Liptak
Texas and New York are at the leading edge of an escalating states’ rights battle over the mailing of abortion pills to patients in states with bans.
By Pam Belluck
The justice’s comments reflected tensions within the judiciary, as trial judges struggle to interpret the Supreme Court’s often cryptic emergency orders.
By Adam Liptak
On this week’s round table, the G.O.P.’s shutdown spiral.
By Jamelle Bouie, Michelle Cottle, David French and Vishakha Darbha
Because of legalized gambling, baseball has no integrity.
By J.R. Moehringer
Why the new model of executive power will probably outlive the Caesar who created it.
By Ross Douthat
El mandatario está explotando un problema del sistema legal estadounidense para ampliar el poder presidencial.
By Adam B. Kushner
In a new book, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asks for faith in the Supreme Court but reveals very little.
By Jodi Kantor
A federal appeals court had reinstated the commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, saying she was fired ‘without cause.’
By Ann E. Marimow
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Speaking at a judicial conference in Memphis, the justice expressed sympathy for the district-court judges whose rulings the Supreme Court has repeatedly paused.
By Mattathias Schwartz
He’s exploiting a diabolical problem in our legal system to expand presidential power.
By Adam B. Kushner
A federal appeals court had invalidated a centerpiece of President Trump’s economic strategy, finding that a 1977 law did not authorize the tariffs.
By Ann E. Marimow
The display of contrition came after Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh issued a stern warning directing judges to heed their orders in August.
By Zach Montague
The legal scholar Kate Shaw discusses Donald Trump’s recent winning streak with the Supreme Court and what it means for the state of the Constitution.
By Ezra Klein
The president said he would seek expedited review of a federal appeals court’s ruling that found many of his administration’s tariffs to be illegal.
By Tony Romm and Ana Swanson
The legal scholar Kate Shaw discusses Donald Trump’s recent winning streak with the Supreme Court and what it means for the state of the Constitution.
The new, higher premium placed on college application essays that focus on racially traumatic experiences produces numerous undesirable consequences.
By Justin Driver
El fallo es un duro golpe para la política comercial del presidente Trump, pero los jueces dejaron los aranceles en vigor por ahora para dar tiempo a una probable apelación ante la Corte Suprema.
By Tony Romm and Ana Swanson
The decision affirmed a lower court’s ruling from March, but was overshadowed by a Supreme Court order that allowed the Trump administration to pursue deportations anyway.
By Zach Montague
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The decision is a big blow to President Trump’s trade policies, but the judges left the duties in place for now to allow time for a likely appeal to the Supreme Court.
By Tony Romm and Ana Swanson
But Black student enrollment is lower at the two universities after years of turmoil in elite higher education.
By Troy Closson and Stephanie Saul
The code of conduct for federal judges does not appear to apply to Mr. Bove, who has yet to be sworn in. But his continued presence at the department has raised eyebrows.
By Devlin Barrett
He helped litigate a landmark school desegregation case before the U.S. Supreme Court and overturn wrongful convictions of Black defendants in North Carolina.
By Sam Roberts
The Supreme Court has said the Federal Reserve Board’s independence warrants protection. President Trump’s effort to fire a member will test that commitment.
By Adam Liptak
The conservative majority has been largely receptive to the administration’s claims of executive power.
By Ann E. Marimow
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