Law firms and universities do not need to capitulate. Here’s how they can fight back.

Law firms and universities do not need to capitulate. Here’s how they can fight back.

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A judge found that four whistle-blowers who accused Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, of corruption and reported him to the F.B.I. were unjustly fired.

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Immigrant groups and Democratic states pushed back on a Trump administration request for the Supreme Court to allow curbs on birthright citizenship to go into effect in some places.

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Given the country’s extreme polarization, there is something to be said for giving voters a voice in judicial elections unconstrained by district lines in gerrymandered states.

America is in a period of profound national regression. Where will the country end up?

Hungary said it would pull out of the International Criminal Court as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel visited the country.

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From tariffs to ballots, he makes up his own rules.

Are the mass of voters really worked up about this administration’s actions? Tuesday night may provide some answers.

The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court.

Trump is taking the law into his own hands.

Bowing to Trump won’t protect their businesses and clients.

The judiciary will never surrender to the president its constitutional role to interpret the Constitution.

What is the chief justice getting at?

The president and his allies are encouraging a campaign of menace.

It is one thing to sacrifice liberty in the face of a real threat. To manufacture threats in order to sacrifice liberty is another matter altogether.

Trump’s goal isn’t necessarily to win. It’s to break it all.

Where all this goes is still up to us.

A softball question, and Bork was out.

China has embraced a plea deal system, but lawyers and scholars fear that it is being abused to further erode individual rights — and for shakedowns.