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Less than 12 hours after the presidential election was called early Wednesday morning, Vice President Kamala Harris did what Donald Trump still can’t bring himself to do four years after [...]

As Election Day approaches, I’ve been having trouble sleeping. So I thought it would be useful to try to separate out those things that keep me up at night from [...]

If you think the Supreme Court is out of control now, then the latest batch of polling should concern you. I'm not talking about polls on the presidential race; I'm [...]

For four years, Donald Trump and his allies have been injecting dangerous lies into the American bloodstream, claiming without any actual evidence that the 2020 election he lost was tainted [...]

“So what?” Those two words — which Donald Trump allegedly uttered on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, in response to an aide who had rushed into the Oval Office [...]

For all the debates over our intractable political divisions and razor-thin vote margins, American presidential elections of late have not been particularly close. Since 2000, the average popular-vote margin is [...]

For all the debates over our intractable political divisions and razor-thin vote margins, American presidential elections of late have not been particularly close. Since 2000, the average popular-vote margin is [...]

What’s happening in Georgia right now — a rogue, partisan election board https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/us/elections/georgia-election-board-rules.html to benefit its preferred candidate, Donald Trump, in November — makes as strong a case as can [...]

If you’re going to subject yourself to one of Donald Trump’s social media tirades, it’s generally best to do so with a strong drink close at hand. Every now and [...]

Pity Tanya Chutkan, the punctilious federal district judge in Washington who inherited the ill-fated Jan. 6 prosecution of Donald Trump one year ago and has since done everything by the [...]

In the days since Judge Aileen Cannon issued her inexplicable 93-page dismissal of the classified-documents case against Donald Trump, I've been coming back to something JD Vance said on a [...]

Welcome to the party, Mr. President. The Biden administration is “seriously considering” proposing https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/us/politics/biden-supreme-court-overhaul.html?searchResultPosition=1 to the Supreme Court, including term limits and a binding code of ethics, according to several [...]

It's starting to seem as though there is no legal mechanism in American government -- no matter the charge, the prosecutor or the venue -- that can hold Donald Trump [...]

At the close of one of the most consequential and least constitutional terms in the Supreme Court's history, it's hard to ignore one particularly offensive trend: the right-wing justices' repeated [...]

It took less than 24 hours for the Supreme Court’s radical, law-free decision on Monday inventing broad presidential immunity to start having real-world effects. On Tuesday morning, Manhattan prosecutors https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/nyregion/trump-sentencing-hush-money-trial.html [...]

In a perfect world, Congress would have long ago made a law specifically prohibiting a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol incited by the sitting president in an attempt to [...]

It often seems that Justice Samuel Alito would be happier swapping out his black robes for the garb of whichever right-wing plaintiffs have arrived before the court to air their [...]

Violent people who pose a clear and immediate threat to the physical safety of others should not be allowed to possess firearms. That seems like a statement any reasonable person [...]

Rarely has a straightforward 9-to-0 decision at the Supreme Court felt as unsettling as it did on Thursday. The justices' unanimous ruling, in F.D.A. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, rejected [...]

Today's Supreme Court may bear Chief Justice John Roberts's name, but it is not his court, nor has it been for many years. This was demonstrated once again this week [...]

As a rule, it is not a good thing for your son to be convicted of a crime, and particularly not when you are the sitting president in the heat [...]

Donald Trump is not your average felon. That creates a devil of a dilemma for Juan Merchan, the New York trial judge who by July 11 must decide on an [...]

An earlier generation of Supreme Court justices seemed to possess the capacity for shame. In 1969, Justice Abe Fortas resigned his seat for accepting a $20,000 consulting fee (which he [...]

Thanks to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's neighbors, Jodi Kantor of The Times was able to report a shocking bit of news on Thursday: In January 2021, shortly after the [...]

Thanks to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s neighbors, Jodi Kantor of The Times was able to report https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html on Thursday: In January 2021, shortly after the deadly Capitol assault incited [...]

Byline: Jesse Wegman Not long after Donald Trump was criminally charged in four state and federal cases last year, many people who want to see the former president held to [...]

Not long after Donald Trump was criminally charged in four state and federal cases last year, many people who want to see the former president held to account expressed an [...]

As a purely legal matter, Donald Trump’s hush-money/election interference trial is not about the sex, but a single sexual encounter is at the heart of it. The prosecution made an [...]

And just like that, Donald Trump has been subjected to his first criminal sanction. Was that so hard? On Tuesday morning, Justice Juan Merchan, the New York judge handling the [...]

Did the American Revolution actually happen? If it did, was it a good thing? This is more or less what Justice Elena Kagan seemed to be wondering during the oral [...]

Justice Samuel Alito was in his usual seat on the Supreme Court bench on Thursday morning, hearing arguments in Trump v. United States — the final case of the court’s [...]

Admit it: You were among the many who didn’t believe an impartial jury could ever be seated for the felony trial of Donald Trump on charges of falsifying business records [...]

Because of a couple of ambiguous words in a federal law, a majority of the Supreme Court seems poised to throw out hundreds of convictions of Jan. 6 attackers. That [...]

This article has been updated to include Judge Cannon's ruling on Thursday afternoon. If there is a more justifiably frustrated man in America right now than Jack Smith, the federal [...]

John Eastman, the lawyer who played a central role in helping Donald Trump try to use the courts to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, will be disbarred in [...]

Even conservative justices seemed skeptical that the plaintiffs suffered any real harm. Even the hard-right Supreme Court has its outer limits, it seems. On Tuesday morning, a majority of justices [...]

Even conservative justices seemed skeptical that the plaintiffs suffered any real harm. Even the hard-right Supreme Court has its outer limits, it seems. On Tuesday morning, a majority of justices [...]

Don’t hold your breath, but as of Monday, the American people are just a few weeks away from maybe, possibly, witnessing the first ever criminal prosecution of a former American [...]

Peter Navarro may not have stormed the Capitol barricades alongside the other Jan. 6 insurrectionists, but on Tuesday he met the same fate as many of them: Navarro, a former [...]

Most of the headlines about Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican National Committee this week focused on the Qaddafi-like installation of his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as a co-chair and the [...]

At least it was unanimous. The https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf that Donald Trump may remain on the ballot — despite the plain language of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which says insurrectionists [...]

If you attended law school at any time over the past half-century, your course in constitutional law likely followed a well-worn path. First you learned the basics: the Supreme Court's [...]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday aided Donald Trump’s quest to avoid federal criminal accountability for his role in trying to overthrow the 2020 election before he runs again in 2024. [...]

If you attended law school at any time over the past half-century, your course in constitutional law likely followed a well-worn path. First you learned the basics: the Supreme Court’s [...]

Donald Trump remains who he has always been. For his rabid fans, this fact is key to the former president’s appeal. But Trump’s hollow core was central, too, for Justice [...]

Mark your calendars: On March 25, 2024, for the first time in American history, a former president will face criminal prosecution. Acting New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/15/nyregion/trump-manhattan-criminal-case?smid=url-share#b745249b-c34d-5600-be5d-c87b86ea22e1 [...]

David French, Opinion Columnist Before the oral argument, I said that we’d know exactly where the court was leaning by the thrust of their questions. Process or substance? Consequences or [...]

Hallelujah, finally. In the least-surprising yet most-awaited ruling in recent memory, the federal appeals court in Washington on Tuesday morning denied former president Donald Trump's claim of total immunity from [...]

Let me get this straight: You are prosecuting the former president of the United States — a man who is better than anyone alive at exploiting his opponents’ weaknesses — [...]

It’s been more than three weeks since the federal appeals court in Washington heard oral arguments in one of the most consequential — and most straightforward — cases in living [...]