Justice Amy Coney Barrett has been the object of the online right’s rage ever since she ruled against the Trump ...

Because the Sedition Act was used to silence critical media, historians and free press advocates tend to take a dim view of it. Scholars have described the Alien and Sedition Acts as “ reprehensible , ...

T he Federalist Society, which sits atop the many organizations that might be called the right-wing legal movement, has come to dominate both our courts and our body of legal thought. Six of nine ...

A prominent conservative U.S. appeals court judge resigned from the largest association of federal judges over its decision ...

The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United ...

Hundreds of Federalist Society members gathered in Washington, DC, last week for their annual convention, the first in person since the pandemic began. Some of the most powerful conservative ...

Trump has been gifted more power than he has taken. But now that he has accumulated so much authority through the weakness ...

I arrived at The Mayflower in downtown Washington, DC, on a cool evening in November when dinner guests were already filing out of the hotel to step into their waiting sedans. Members of the ...

Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho said he’s resigning from a judicial group after it spoke up in defense of judges who’ve been ...

That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post, which explores a surprising controversy that arose at the outset of John Robert’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 2005. The White House ...

During a two-week period starting on June 18, 1798, the majority Federalist Congress passed four acts collectively known as the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Naturalization Act increased from five ...

As executive vice president of the Federalist Society, Leo has been the quiet architect of a pivotal shift to the right throughout the federal judiciary. He was still at Cornell Law School in 1989 ...