Deadline: Legal Blog Lawyers for inmates urged the justices not to “overturn a three decades-long status quo” at the administration’s behest. Oct. 21, 2026, 11:31 AM EDT The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s application

Deadline: Legal Blog A conservative appellate panel said many of Trump’s legal arguments “were indeed frivolous.” Oct. 20, 2026, 12:43 PM EDT It’s in his personal capacity that Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to revive

Deadline: Legal Blog The Trump Justice Department sought a temporary dismissal. Hearn wanted his charges tossed for good. Oct. 1, 2026, 11:01 AM EDT The Justice Department’s indictment against former Olympic canoeist David Hearn is dismissed permanently,

Courts give great deference to presidents on matters of national security. But the ruling against Donald Trump’s White House press ban shows that such deference only goes so far. Explaining his rationale for issuing a temporary restraining

Deadline: Legal Blog The journalists said the Trump administration wanted to fire them in violation of the First Amendment. Sept. 4, 2026, 8:22 PM EDT A federal judge in the nation’s capital declined to block the firings

Deadline: Legal Blog Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, said in a new court filing that “the public need for access could not be greater.” Sept. 2, 2026, 11:47 AM EDT A Democratic lawmaker told a federal judge that

President Donald Trump has been trying to get E. Jean Carroll to return the $5 million (plus interest) that she finally received this month from the case in which a jury found him liable for sexual abuse

Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. The Supreme Court these days is generally in the business of helping executions go forward. But on Thursday night, the court did something notable: It told Alabama no. Even then, the

Early in his Supreme Court tenure, Justice Clarence Thomas, who joined the court in 1991, reportedly said he wanted to stay on until 2034. The reason, according to a 1993 New York Times report citing one of

The Supreme Court will hear arguments later this month on the Trump administration’s quest to end humanitarian immigration protections for Haitians and Syrians, in a case that could affect immigrants from many countries. Ahead of the hearing, lawyers challenging the administration