The case has been ongoing since 2020, when Idaho became the first state in the nation to pass such a sweeping law targeting ...

Vaccinate kids | Fear for nation | Stand for U.S. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for Jan. 13, 2026.

The Supreme Court is weighing two lawsuits from transgender female athletes challenging bans in West Virginia and Idaho.

I n a properly functioning constitutional republic, the Supreme Court’s job is reading legal texts; matters of elementary common sense are left to the people and their representatives. But our era’s ...

Virginia’s attorney general is urging local school boards to update student conduct and discrimination policies following the ...

Attorney General James Uthmeier and two major business groups have urged the Florida Supreme Court to reject a proposed ...

At a Jan. 3 press conference after Maduro’s capture, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed that members of Congress were not notified in advance. Trump said the administration was concerned about ...

The court’s hearing on state bans on trans athletes in women’s sports was not a serious legal exercise. It was bigotry masquerading as law.

IER will continue to engage constructively in this process, with the goal of ensuring that federal environmental regulation ...

Courts may allow sex-based sports rules under Title IX and the Constitution when they meet equal protection standards. Here’s ...

During the first case to be heard in the back-to-back session, Little v. Hecox, both conservative and liberal justices raised ...

Reagan-appointed judge rips into Trump’s ‘fear’ of First Amendment protections in case involving pro-Palestine protests ...