The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Watson v. Republican National Committee, a case about the Republican Party’s ...

Also scattered across Westercamp’s Twitter timeline between October 2016 and February 2023 are tweets and retweets that ...

Olympus Spa v. Armstrong is not, as Judge Lawrence VanDyke claimed last week in an honest-to-God federal court opinion, “a case about swinging dicks.” Olympus Spa operates two Korean spas in ...

On Tuesday, a federal appeals court panel upheld West Virginia’s policy denying Medicaid coverage to people seeking surgical treatment for gender dysphoria. In a lawsuit, transgender patients had ...

In 1946, Congress quietly passed a statute giving U.S. Customs and Border Protection the authority to stop and search all vehicles within a “reasonable distance” from the border. Shortly thereafter, ...

In early 1981, there was probably no more exciting place for young, ambitious Republican lawyers than the U.S. Department of Justice, which the journalist Ari Berman has described as “the nerve center ...

On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing for Rebecca Taibleson, President Donald Trump’s pick for a seat on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Under most Republican ...

As a journalist who covers reproductive rights, I’ve spent the first six months of Donald Trump’s second term waiting for the other shoe to drop on abortion. Sure, the president has pardoned nearly ...

Gorsuch, however, had other subjects on his mind. “That’s the one where [students] are supposed to look for the leather and things—and bondage? Things like that, right?” he asked the district’s lawyer ...

The Supreme Court held today in United States v. Skrmetti that the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution is no obstacle to laws that deny lifesaving medical care to transgender children. In 2023 ...

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued a two-paragraph order that allows the Trump administration to move forward with gutting some two dozen federal agencies, moving ever closer to realizing the ...

Welcome to the FedSoc Twelve, a Balls & Strikes series about some of Donald Trump’s most unhinged judicial appointees. These judges, whether in their legal opinions or their off-the-clock conduct, ...