When he sat down for his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, attorney general nominee Todd Blanche had his work cut out for him. In the decades since Watergate, the Justice Department has built ...

A familiar American story has unfolded over the past few days: A famously corrupt judicial body made an unprecedented decision on Sunday, granting an emergency request by President Donald Trump to set ...

I will say this about Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican senator who died on Saturday at 71: He had Donald Trump clocked right from the jump. During the 2016 presidential primary, Graham, ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a marathon hearing on Wednesday to consider President Donald Trump’s nomination of Todd Blanche to be the next attorney general. In March 2025, Republican senators ...

More than 1,400 members of the Tennessee National Guard spent the Fourth of July holiday weekend patrolling Memphis, Tennessee, as part of President Donald Trump’s so-called “Memphis Safe Task Force.” ...

As the calendar turns to July, the question looming over President Donald Trump’s judicial agenda is not whether Republicans have the votes to confirm his remaining nominees—they do, with some to ...

Every seven hours, on average, a person in Virginia is killed by a gun, according to a Johns Hopkins School of Public Health analysis. Between 2014 and 2023, Virginia’s overall gun death rate ...

Whenever the Supreme Court decides to review a campaign finance rule, it’s a safe bet that the ultraconservative majority will overturn it as a violation of speech rights. Last week’s decision in ...

For nearly 20 years, Damon Landor adhered to the Nazarite Vow to let his hair “grow long” and let “no razor come upon his head.” And by August 2020, when he began a five-month sentence for drug ...

Months before the 2020 election, as tens of millions of people prepared to vote by mail in the midst of a deadly pandemic, President Donald Trump was already laying the groundwork for challenging the ...

On Tuesday morning, the United States Supreme Court came exactly one vote away from holding that the Fourteenth Amendment does not mean what it says—that “all persons born or naturalized in the United ...