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SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school

Trump at 100 days, with Democracy Forward’s Skye Perryman

The education of Judge Gregory Katsas

The horrors are not aberrations. This is the Trump administration's plan.

The Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen on Friday

A.G. Bondi reverses Garland policy against subpoenaing journalists

ICE contradicts DOJ filing at SCOTUS that a pending habeas case blocks AEA removal

Trump admin asks SCOTUS to let it enforce anti-trans military ban during litigation

Read A.G. Bondi's memo purporting to implement Trump's anti-trans attacks

SCOTUS conservatives seem eager to increase parents' religious rights in public schools

SCOTUS likely to reject challenge to preventative care insurance protections

Amidst Trump's chaos, SCOTUS conservatives are still moving their agenda

Supreme Court blocks some Alien Enemies Act removals in Texas-based case

Federal judge blocks Trump effort to fire more than 1,400 CFPB employees

The pushback against Trump's lawlessness is real — and making a difference

SCOTUS sets May 15 arguments in Trump birthright citizenship order request

Judge finds "probable cause" the Trump admin is in contempt over March 15 flights

DOJ ends a key racial discrimination case, signaling an end to the Civil Rights Division as it existed

Trump told us the horrifying reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not back in the U.S.

Luigi Mangione's lawyers: Bondi's actions should prevent DOJ from seeking death penalty

State Dep't official says embassy confirms Abrego Garcia is alive in El Salvador's CECOT prison

DOJ balks at court order in Abrego Garcia case, judge finds gov't "failed to comply"

SCOTUS says Trump admin must "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return

Read the DOJ memo barring employees from participating in American Bar Ass'n events

Two judges issue temporary orders blocking Trump's Alien Enemies Act removals

SCOTUS, 5-4, backs Trump effort to end one route for Alien Enemies Act challenges

What happened this week in Trump's authoritarianism speed-run

Justices skeptical of S.C.'s efforts to stop suit over Planned Parenthood exclusion

Fed'l court rules Alabama AG's threatened abortion-fund prosecutions unconstitutional

Appeals court keeps Trump's anti-trans military ban blocked for now

Law firms and the rule of law remain under attack; Jenner and WilmerHale fight back

SCOTUS upholds "ghost gun" rule; lower courts block Trump AEA deportations, anti-trans policies

The Signal chat, state secrets, and March 15

Donald Trump wants to, and is working to, destroy the rule of law

DOJ quietly making moves in appeals over Biden's Title IX trans student protections

Federal judge blocks Trump's anti-trans military ban as "soaked in animus"

Nearly 25,000 fired employees rehired in the past week, federal HR officials tell court

Why trying to understand what the Trump admin did in response to the TRO matters

Court blocks deportations hours after Trump says he invoked Alien Enemies Act

In several decisions this past week, judges have raised key death penalty questions

Federal judge blocks Trump order against law firm, calling it a "personal vendetta"

What is happening to Mahmoud Khalil is chilling — and intended to chill all opposition

SCOTUS takes up challenge to conversion therapy ban aimed at protecting LGBTQ kids

Trump lashes out, acting as an authoritarian in attacks on perceived opponents

No. 2 at DOJ directs fed'l prosecutors to focus on Trump immigration enforcement policies

Kim Davis loses. Again. Unanimously. (But, this still might not be the end.)

The Supreme Court, barely, upholds our three-branch system of government

DOJ: Trump admin is reviewing mifepristone cases, dropping EMTALA case

Monday check-in: Still no word from SCOTUS on USAID payments case

RFK Jr.'s "radical transparency" means ending a 54-year-old transparency policy

Social Security announces "massive reorganizations" and a "target" of 7,000 job cuts

Roberts steps in to protect Trump admin's effort to avoid court's USAID payment order

Military issues policy banning trans military service, implementing Trump EO

The Social Security Administration "eliminated" its civil rights office

SCOTUS orders new trial for man Oklahoma courts would have allowed to be executed

Musk's "5 bullets" mess

On DOJ's petty and small — but also alarming — complaint against a federal judge

The importance of being litigious

Reviewing Trump's military order, judge says admin's anti-trans acts "scream animus"

Trump admin goes to SCOTUS to fight for right to fire protected agency head

Trump and Musk to America: Drop Dead.

DOJ in disarray: Bove's bluster to blame? Resignations ripple after Adams case order.

Bull-DOGE-ing the federal government and, with it, America

Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy

Defense Sec orders immediate "pause" on trans medical "procedures," trans military recruits

A.G. Pam Bondi says Trump sets DOJ policy, all DOJ lawyers are "his lawyers"

DOJ lawyer tells judge animus wouldn't be the end for Trump's anti-trans military EO

Meet two lawyers leading the fight for trans people's lives against Trump's anti-trans attacks

Sunday scaries: Elon Musk edition

Exclusive: Social Security "immediately" stopped making sex identification changes on Friday

Disappearing websites, data among the chaos as Trump's anti-trans censorship begins

Court blocked trans woman's prison transfer, as second lawsuit filed for other trans women

Trump's mission: Discrimination and destruction

Trump continues attack on trans people, going after trans kids, teens in new order

Trump maligns trans service members, diversity, learning in discriminatory EOs

Trans woman in prison sues over Trump's anti-trans "sex" definition order

The immunity decision does not mean that Trump can do anything now

Trump ends federal contractor civil rights order with roots that go back to FDR

Multiple lawsuits challenge Trump's order restricting birthright citizenship

Trump talks of ending gov't weaponization, as he acts to target foes and the vulnerable

A new era, and a quick ask

The coming administration, and what it means here at Law Dork

Supreme Court unanimously upholds law that effectively bans TikTok on Sunday

Judge who wanted to ban mifepristone refuses to dismiss case

Exclusive: A.G. Garland withdraws federal execution drug protocol following review

Justices skeptical of Fifth Circuit ruling that upheld Texas age-verification internet law

GOP-led House passes bill to ban trans students from girls' sports

Special counsel's report on the January 6 case is now public

Lawless Cannon orders DOJ to tell her about Jack Smith's January 6 report

TikTok, creators face tough day at SCOTUS, with ban set to go into effect on Jan. 19

SCOTUS — barely — allows Trump’s New York state-court sentencing to proceed

Trump and Alito, two men who disdain ethical constraints, chatted on Tuesday

Trump is laying out his legal takeover this week — before he even takes office

January 6, four years later

Ohio gives local law enforcement the ability to charge up to $750 for public video footage

In striking down net-neutrality rule, Sixth Circuit asserts newfound judicial supremacy