The Supreme Court has been away from Washington, D.C. for two months, since its final regular decision day, but as its emergency docket has continued to fill up during the summer, the justices are showing growing frustration over lower courts’ orders. As lower courts continue to issue orders blocking various actions by the Trump administration, […]

Abbe Lowell, a longtime Washington litigator who’s represented Democrats and Republicans facing politically contentious cases, has a new bloc of clients since launching his own firm earlier this year: enemies of the Trump administration. Lowell has decades of experience defending high-profile legislators and political figures on both sides of the aisle, including Jared Kushner and […]

A horrific mass shooting in Minneapolis has spawned a heated political debate over the power of prayer versus the power of government. Liberal Democrats, frustrated by their inability to enact sweeping gun control measures, have long responded with hostility to conservative Republicans offering their “thoughts and prayers” in the wake of mass shootings, viewing it […]

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Democrats are channeling grassroots anger at Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a series of condemnations that stop short of the calls to “abolish ICE” that defined the early anti-Trump resistance. At their summer gathering in Minnesota this week, members of the Democratic National Committee signaled the strategy they will take to oppose Trump’s immigration […]