I’ve spent two decades mining Supreme Court opinions for writing techniques that can inspire advocates, too. The best ...

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Justice James Wilson died on this day in 1798. This summer, Jesse Wegman published a biography of Wilson, highlighting, among ...

It is no secret that, thanks to Justice Antonin Scalia, originalism is on the rise. This is true not only on the Supreme ...

President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on his defamation case against cable news giant CNN. In a ...

Whether the First Amendment protects a publisher from defamation liability when it conveys provably false factual accusations through a pejorative label and accompanying inflammatory imagery.

In its final expected brief in the White House ballroom dispute, the Trump administration asserted that “[f]inishing the ...

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A group of Florida Republicans has appealed a ruling by a federal court in that state throwing out a lawsuit seeking to ...

As part of the Trump administration’s hardline approach to migrants, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has ...

Last week, they threw a Hail Mary pass, urging the Supreme Court to intervene. “Applicants do not ask this Court to release ...

The order by Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, has never actually gone into effect.