With the Justice Department in full collapse, the presumptive nominee could spark a timely discussion about its future leadership.

Law enforcement agencies have become the standing armies that the Founders feared.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, and the president has bunkered down.

The derangements of our current era could threaten the rock-solid legal precedents that provide states with the right to act in the interests of public health.

Much like their client, the White House’s lawyers don’t seem to understand what a president does, but they’re not letting that stop them.

Against the backdrop of the coronavirus crisis, our unaccountable surveillance state is set to expand.

Attorney General Bill Barr’s transparent corruption has reached farcical new levels. And he’s not done by a damn sight.

In the drive to “reopen” the economy, the means to radically expand tech-based surveillance and criminalize our everyday lives are there for the taking.

Faced with having to choose between the president and Congress, the justices want to permanently abdicate their role as adjudicators.

Ramon Ward was exonerated thanks to a new system of reinvestigating old cases. He hopes he’s not the last.

It's commonly held that letting the cops do crimes is a big no-no, but thanks to a zany lower court ruling the question is in the Supreme Court's hands.

Law professor Adrian Vermeule thinks America would be better off without individual liberty. It’s an increasingly popular view among a faction of conservatives.

Whoever gets tapped as the next Democratic attorney general could potentially define a presidency and reset a wayward Justice Department.

The high court’s taken a dim view of targeted regulation of abortion providers in the past, but that was before Brett Kavanaugh.

The Roberts court is poised to undo the late Justice’s landmark ruling on religious freedom and government overreach.

The progressive prosecutor wants to fight gun violence with a light touch. His critics say he’s crazy. His defenders say he’s onto something.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority could use an obscure legal doctrine to permanently kneecap the ability of progressives to govern.

What does the landmark Supreme Court ruling mean to a country always on the brink of losing it?

If all our political disputes are destined to be settled by unelected judges, do the people even have a place in our democracy?

Obamacare failed to achieve its goals but laid the groundwork for a truly revolutionary policy.