Zachary Stieber

U.S. Circuit Judge Kent A. Jordan said in a new opinion that the Second Amendment applies to all adults, not just those 21 and older.

The president-elect has announced a new hiring policy.

U.S. officials complied with a court order.

Pam Bondi disclosed the holdings in a newly released document.

The president announced the ratification days before leaving office.

President Joe Biden on Jan. 17 announced he has ratified the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), despite the U.S. archivist recently saying the president could not ratify the constitutional amendment.(snip) The U.S. archivist and U.S. deputy archivist said in late 2024 that the president could not ratify the amendment because the amendment did not receive the required support from three-fourths of the states by the deadline Congress imposed, which was June 30, 1982. The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel in 2020, while Donald Trump was president, and in 2022, after Biden took office, also said that ratification cannot occur unless Congress or the courts extend or remove the ratification deadline.

Thomas Goldstein is the publisher of SCOTUSblog. A lawyer who publishes a popular blog about the U.S.

Trump directs the attorney general to pursue the death penalty ‘for all crimes of a severity demanding its use.’

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said that he has informed leaders of the Democratic Party that his party affiliation is not going to change.

A new memorandum lays out the direction.