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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

On Monday, in a pair of decisions written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court effectively ruled that President Donald Trump can fire the heads of purportedly independent federal agencies ...

Whenever the Supreme Court’s six-justice conservative supermajority decides a high-stakes constitutional law case, the majority opinion’s author always strains to make one point clear: that all they ...

For all the prestige accorded to the institution within the legal profession, being a Supreme Court justice is not an especially difficult job. Once confirmed by the Senate, the justices enjoy life ...

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 ...