One way to look at much of the second Trump administration is that it is a recapitulation of some of the worst episodes in the history of the United States. President Donald Trump's crusade against ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review and uphold President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship for the children of temporary and undocumented ...

The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the legality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone ...

On Sept. 8, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6–3 split, lifted a lower court’s restraining order that had prohibited immigration authorities in Los Angeles from stopping or detaining people based ...

In 1833, a man named Dred Scott crossed a border. Scott didn’t traverse nations. Just a work trip, of sorts, from Missouri to Illinois. But as a slave in a pre-abolition (and rapidly fracturing) ...

A president ignoring a court order would, according to conventional wisdom, trigger a constitutional crisis. Yet, for all this rhetoric of warning, President Donald Trump has never come close to ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Friday cleared the way for the federal government to potentially enforce an executive order restricting birthright citizenship. The court’s dissenters — ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This outcome was as unnecessary as it was unwise. Witness the victory lap that President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi took in ...

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday in Trump v. CASA is a disastrous moment for the American constitutional order. In a 6–3 decision, the court’s conservative justices curbed the judiciary’s power to ...

This letter serves as a rebuttal of one in which Lt. Gov. Beckwith was defended for his Three-Fifths Compromise remarks. The author claims the compromise was not to protect slavery, but to save the ...

Update, June 27 10:20 a.m.: The Supreme Court ruled Friday that nationwide injunctions “likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts,” allowing the Trump ...