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• Unaccompanied minors once had deportation cases closed or delayed while pursuing green cards via state court findings of parental abuse or...

The Trump administration awaits a Supreme Court decision on its bid to access federal databases for removing ineligible voters ahead of November midterms, underscoring how emergency litigation constrains pre-election eligibility probes.

Missouri's voluntary dismissal of its lawsuit leaves unresolved the core question of whether noncitizens must be counted for congressional...

Taiwan's Constitutional Court faces a legitimacy crisis despite its landmark 2019 procedural reforms. Active judicial intervention based solely on procedural transparency may still fail to secure public perception of legitimacy.

MALDEF is appealing a federal court decision that ended regular tuition rates for Kansas students without lawful immigration status, after the court...

The unexplained reversal—unsealing then resealing records in the Chief Justice scandal within hours—highlights the state Supreme Court's resistance to...

A Delaware judge ordered Fox Corp. to turn over hundreds of documents on how Rupert Murdoch and longtime director Jacques Nasser managed repeated...

Consumer Watchdog cites Alito's ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66 holdings plus an Oklahoma mineral lease as grounds for recusal in Suncor v. Boulder.
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• Core Confrontation: The administration's executive order seeks to reinterpret the 14th Amendment's "subject to the jurisdiction" clause as excluding...

A federal appeals court blocked the Trump administration’s rapid third-country removal policy, ruling immigrants must receive adequate notice and a...

Computational map ensembles distinguish the two claims by testing whether a plan is an outlier on separate metrics.

• Partisan bias: Texas 2022 plan's...

The Ninth Circuit ruled that federal courts can tell states how to allocate resources in their civil court systems. This decision points to clear limits on state control over court funding and administration.

The Supreme Court will hear Viramontes v. Cook County in December and is expected to center its analysis on five key decisions.

• Heller: Affirmed...

Emergency Supreme Court intervention is cementing state election procedures over late federal challenges. Justice Alito denied Lana Leguía’s bid...

The U.S. Supreme Court embodies the common law tradition of stare decisis, binding judges to follow precedents from similar prior cases.

This system...

A government-run database now offers free public access to more than 7,000 U.S. Supreme Court decisions, marking a victory for advocates of greater access to public documents.

Is North Carolina’s ballot-photography ban a permissible election safeguard or an unconstitutional limit on political expression?

• Hogarth argues...

The California Supreme Court’s October 7 session in Redding marks the 11th straight calendar relying on pro tem justices due to the unfilled vacancy...

A Supreme Court filing contends that a constitutional challenge arising from family-court proceedings does not amount to a forbidden appeal of a state-court judgment.

Overwhelming lower-court defeats for ICE's mass detention policy—more than 20,000 district rulings and losses in nine circuits—mask a partisan...