Jacob Gershman covers law for The Wall Street Journal. He previously wrote about New York politics for the Journal and the New York Sun.

Ken Thomas is a national political reporter covering the Trump administration. He has worked for The Wall Street Journal since November 2018.

The federal judiciary is being forced to confront a fundamental question: What to do when its orders are defied?

The Court's three liberal members, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson have all appeared to side with the task force while conservative justices Samuel Alito, Clarence ...

The debate focused on whether just exposing children to the books in the classroom violates families’ religious beliefs.

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer said the Trump administration could be held in criminal contempt over ...

Legal experts warn that the country is sliding toward a constitutional crisis as President Donald Trump openly defies the federal courts.

It's a playbook President Trump has used for decades. Most recently, it served as the foundation of his legal strategy in his ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over President Donald Trump's plan to curb birthright citizenship after lower courts stalled its implementation.

A federal judge is threatening to hold Trump administration in contempt of court for defying order to temporarily halt ...

Many of the patterns of behavior of politicians today can only be explained by fear of being primaried. For example, ...

The Supreme Court of Georgia is testing out a new oral argument format in which parties are granted two minutes for ...