Even in some of the world’s sturdiest democracies, leaders are deliberately undermining courts to weaken checks on their ...

The president of the United States appears to have long ago forgotten that Americans fought the Revolutionary War not merely to secure their independence from the British monarchy but to establish a ...

The constitutional crisis that many have feared is officially here. The Trump administration has willfully disobeyed judicial court orders from Judges Boasberg, Xinis, and Murphy — which the ...

On July 8, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court discreetly issued an emergency order permitting the Trump administration to move forward with sweeping layoffs across federal agencies. The unsigned ruling did ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the future, April 14, 2025, may well be recognized as a monumental day in US ...

Two letter writers reflect on the fierce debate over illegal immigration, the National Guard, rule of law and pretext for a ...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett is not the savior of the Constitution’s separation of powers that the country needs, writes Bruce ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon asked the litigants in the challenge to President Donald Trump’s effort to deploy ...