Investigative Journalism & In-Depth Reporting
Federal and state court proceedings, rulings, and legal analysis
The ballroom and mail-ballot fights reach the Supreme Court, the First Circuit backs bond hearings, and judges rule on Harvard, phosphogypsum roads, and Ohio data centers.
A weekly digest of notable court developments: the First Circuit leaves a block on the federal voter-list order in place, the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger stays frozen, the D.C. Circuit preserves…
A divided D.C. Circuit halted White House ballroom construction, a Texas judge struck down NFA registration rules for suppressors, and 23 states filed opposition on the Supreme Court emergency docket…
The administration takes its mail-in voting order to the Supreme Court's emergency docket, two petitions target the $83.3 million Carroll verdict, beef price-fixing classes are certified in Minnesota, and Texas…
With the Supreme Court in recess, the Third Circuit struck down New Jersey’s assault-weapons ban, the D.C. Circuit revived a USPS mail-ballot rule, and a Florida judge voided an IRS…
Supreme Court lets Texas enforce its app age-verification law as courts rule on immigration detention, firearms and the Nexstar-TEGNA merger.
The Supreme Court closed October Term 2025 with blockbuster rulings on birthright citizenship, presidential removal power, the Federal Reserve, elections, campaign finance, transgender athletes, and geofence warrants.
A 6-3 Supreme Court limited judicial review in two immigration cases, struck Hawaii's private-property gun rule, and shielded Roundup's maker on preemption — plus lower-court action on elections and online…
A narrow Second Amendment win in United States v. Hemani led a busy week at the Supreme Court, alongside new cert grants, a Ninth Circuit parental-notification injunction, an Idaho bathroom-law…
The Supreme Court’s June 18 ruling in United States v. Hemani led a busy end-of-term week that also brought new cert grants on six-person juries and immigration detention, a Roy…