The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led effort to sharply restrict White House officials and other federal employees from pressuring social media companies to remove posts from their platforms that the U.S. government deems problematic, saying the challengers did not have legal standing to bring the case. State leaders in Missouri and Louisiana, in […]Read More

McALLEN, Tex. — The number of migrants crossing the U.S. southern border illegally has dropped more than 40 percent in the three weeks since President Biden announced broad restrictions on asylum claims, administration officials said Wednesday. U.S. agents have taken fewer than 2,400 migrants into custody per day over the past week, down from more […]Read More

The Supreme Court vacated the bribery conviction of a former Indiana mayor Wednesday, a decision that continues a recent trend by the justices to narrow the scope of corruption laws targeting public officials. In a sharply divided 6-3 ruling that broke along ideological lines, the conservative supermajority found that the federal law prosecutors used to […]Read More

The Supreme Court would allow emergency abortion care in Idaho for nowdespite the state’s restrictions on the procedure, according to Bloomberg Law, which viewed a copy of a not-yet-released opinion that was briefly posted on the court’s website Wednesday. The decision, which has not been announced by the court, would mean that hospitals could perform […]Read More

One of the central arguments being made by President Biden as the presidential election nears is that American democracy hangs in the balance. The idea that Donald Trump poses a unique and significant threat to democracy has been a theme of Biden’s rhetoric since before his 2020 election, though he sharpened the argument significantly after […]Read More

The Republican Party has become defined by Donald Trump more than any set of principles or policies. And that has rendered Trump’s endorsement the gold seal of approval in Republican primaries. Trump’s strong endorsement record is inflated by his having backed gobs of candidates in uncompetitive and even uncontested races, but there is no question […]Read More

The Supreme Court would allow emergency abortion care in Idaho for nowdespite the state’s restrictions on the procedure, according to a copy of a not-yet-released opinion posted by Bloomberg Law after it briefly appeared on the court’s website Wednesday. The decision, which has not been announced, would mean that while litigation makes its way through […]Read More

The reasons Donald Trump appears to have a slight edge in the same matchup with President Biden that he lost just four years ago are many and complicated. But sometimes a poll comes along and crystallizes one of the big ones. Such is the case with a new survey from Quinnipiac University released on the […]Read More

It is a grim time to be a member of the news media. Many people (though presumably few here at The Washington Post) see this as karma, if not good news: They view the media as having failed at its basic task of informing the public. That sentiment is particularly acute in the realm of […]Read More