On Monday, Dec. 1, in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, the Supreme Court will consider the federal judiciary’s role in asylum cases as it weighs whether a federal court of appeals must defer to the Board of ...

This final blog post about the role of unstated legal ideas in deforming the Constitution involves a third unstated idea, beyond either the part played by the "three buckets" idea, combined with the ...

At that time, the Fifth Circuit heard appeals from federal trial courts in the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida—the very heart of resistance to racial equality, ...

The framers of the Constitution designed the federal judiciary as an essential check on the other branches of government. Today, it stands as the only effective check. The framers recognized that the ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. On Jan. 21, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of ...

The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that federal appeals courts must defer to the findings of immigration courts, rather than do their own fact-finding, when reviewing asylum claims, confirming the ...

The justices on Monday will hear argument in T.M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation about the circumstances in which lower federal courts may review state-court judgments. The case ...

A federal judge who has been sidelined for three years over questions about her competency is asking the Supreme Court to throw her a lifeline. Judge Pauline Newman is 98 years old — and she wants a ...