When the justices rule without offering a rationale, we can't know if they are following the law or just exercising power.

When the justices rule without offering a rationale, we can't know if they are following the law or just exercising power.

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A series of recent Supreme Court decisions favoring the Trump administration were made under the court’s “emergency docket,” ...

By allowing the Trump administration to decimate the Department of Education, the Supreme Court’s majority has elevated its ...

In a recent ruling allowing the Trump administration to disassemble the Department of Education and fire nearly 1,400 federal ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied a bid by an Ecuadorian national to stave off his extradition to that country to face sexual ...

Paulette Jiles, a horse-riding poet and historical novelist who evoked the grit and grandeur of the American West in “News of ...

Across the street from the U.S. Capitol, the Supreme Court justices discussed whether the Department of Education should be ...

A legal expert warns the Supreme Court is enabling Trump's unchecked power by using the shadow docket to silently approve ...

President Donald Trump appears to have found six accomplices in his quest to dismantle the federal government, according to ...

In the past 10 weeks alone, the court has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration without explanation seven ...