Michael Macagnone

The Supreme Court’s conservative justices expressed concerns Monday about the future of race in redistricting, part of oral arguments in the yearslong fight over a second Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana. The state and a group of voting rights plaintiffs […]

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday over the fate of Louisiana’s second Black-majority congressional district, in a pair of cases that could shape how state lawmakers can use race when drawing new congressional maps. Parties in the

Board members of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a private nonprofit created by Congress, filed a lawsuit seeking to halt what they call an illegal takeover by the Trump administration that steps on congressional power. The institute and five board

A federal judge in Maryland temporarily ordered the administration to stop efforts to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development, ruling Tuesday that Elon Musk’s role in the Trump administration actions likely trounced on congressional power. Judge Theodore D. Chuang

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to move forward with an executive order to restrict birthright citizenship, after a series of lower-court rulings blocked the policy nationwide. The Justice Department, in three applications about

The former watchdog for federal workers said Thursday that he intends to drop his bid for the courts to reinstate him after the Trump administration fired him without cause last month, signaling the end to the most prominent fight so

A federal judge in Washington ordered the Trump administration to reinstate a member of the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday, finding her firing without cause violated federal law. Trump officials in January fired Gwynne Wilcox, who was serving as

A federal appeals court on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to remove Hampton Dellinger as head of the Office of Special Counsel for now, in one of the most prominent legal challenges over presidential power to fire executive branch officials

The Supreme Court during oral arguments Tuesday appeared ready to rule against the Mexican government’s attempt to hold U.S. gun manufacturers liable for cartel violence in Mexico caused by guns purchased in the United States. Multiple justices questioned whether Mexico’s

A federal judge in Washington sounded skeptical Wednesday about President Donald Trump’s power to fire a federal watchdog official without cause — and aware that the Supreme Court will quickly review whatever she decides. Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the