Featured Stories

More Student Visa Cancellations Prompt Legal Challenges

Hundreds of international students have recently had their visas revoked, triggering legal challenges and emergency court orders as schools and students seek clarity on the sudden status terminations. Read More.


Colorado Enacts Ambitious Gun Control Measure

A new law will require most purchasers of guns classified as semiautomatic firearms to complete at least one firearms safety course, which in turn requires applying for an eligibility card from a sheriff. Read More.


Trump Administration Free to Fire Federal Employees

On Wednesday, April 9, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that a lower-court judge likely lacked jurisdiction to order probationary federal employees be reinstated after the Trump administration laid off thousands of federal workers. Read More.

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Other Legal News

Read Justice Samuel Alito’s Dissent in the Alien Enemies Act Case
The New York Times, April 20, 2025

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote that the Supreme Court’s decision to block the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants under a wartime law was premature.


Will This Conservative Legal Doctrine Undo Trump’s First Months in Office?
The New York Times, April 20, 2025

What goes around, comes around. And it is not likely to be good for the White House.


Court to hear challenge to ACA preventative-care coverage
SCOTUSblog, April 18, 2025

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Monday in yet another dispute over the separation of powers. The case is a challenge to the constitutionality of the structure of a relatively obscure section of the Department of Health and Human Services. But although the... The post Court to hear challenge to ACA preventative-care coverage appeared first on SCOTUSblog.


Federal Judicial Center Director Announcement
Supreme Court of the United States, April 10, 2025


A Split on the Right Over Whether Teenagers Can Have Guns
The New York Times, April 8, 2025

Conservative judges have come to opposite conclusions on what the Second Amendment has to say about limiting the gun rights of those under 21.


Is House Speaker Mike Johnson’s Proposal to Eliminate Federal Judgeships Constitutional?
Justia's Verdict, April 2, 2025

Cornell Law professor Michael C. Dorf examines recent calls by President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, and their allies in Congress to remove or sideline federal judges who have blocked Trump administration policies, either through impeachment or by eliminating the courts themselves. Professor Dorf argues that such tactics are constitutionally dubious and dangerously undermine judicial independence, warning that the real threat to the republic comes not from the judges, but from efforts to evade legal checks on presidential power.