China’s Vow of ‘Leniency’ in Plea Deals Erodes Rights to Fair Trial
When Son Jun-ho, a key midfielder for South Korea’s World Cup soccer team, signed with a Chinese club, he was an indication of China’s ambition to dominate the world’s most…
Federal Judges Are Ordering Trump to Slow Down. Will He Listen?
Justice Department lawyers, confronting an onslaught of legal challenges, have made a case in court that expansive executive power inherent in the Constitution buttresses the lawfulness of President Trump’s aggressive…
Musk and Republican Lawmakers Pressure Judges with Impeachment Threats
Congressional Republicans, egged on by Elon Musk and other top allies of President Trump, are escalating calls to remove federal judges who stand in the way of administration efforts to…
Judge Appears Skeptical of Claims That Musk Isn’t Driving DOGE
A federal judge said on Friday that it seemed “factually inaccurate” for the Trump administration to keep insisting that Elon Musk has no formal position in an operation that has…
Trump Seeks Prompt Supreme Court Review of His Power to Fire Officials
The Trump administration told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that developments in the first case arising from the president’s blitz of executive actions to reach the justices would require prompt…
Government Watchdog Moves to Protect Probationary Federal Workers
A government watchdog lawyer whose dismissal by President Trump has been stalled by the courts announced on Monday that his office would seek to pause the mass firings of some…
Judge Questions Constitutionality of Musk’s DOGE Operation
A federal judge in Washington said on Monday that the way the Trump administration set up and has been running Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency may violate the…
An Important Judicial Tool Mysteriously Goes Missing at the Supreme Court
When the Supreme Court ruled last month in favor of a woman sent to death row in Oklahoma based on lurid sexual evidence, it used a judicial tool that was…
Opinion | John Roberts Is on a Collision Course With Trump
It is possible that these threats are theater, meant to cow the justices into compliance. But it is more likely that they are not. Mr. Trump is clearly well aware…
Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling
The Trump administration has blocked key parts of the federal government’s apparatus for funding biomedical research, effectively halting progress on much of the country’s future work on illnesses like cancer…