Deadline: Legal Blog

‘Dangerous message’: ACLU lawyers seek to revive criminal contempt inquiry over flights

They’re asking for review of a ruling they said “sends a dangerous message that the Executive Branch can escape judicial orders.”

Jordan Rubin

Alito says Jackson’s Louisiana voting case dissent ‘cannot go unanswered’

Justice Jackson was the lone dissenter, prompting a rebuke from Justices Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch in the voting rights litigation.

Jordan Rubin

Presidential immunity is coming back to SCOTUS in Trump’s E. Jean Carroll appeal

The president already has a Supreme Court petition pending in one of his Carroll cases. He’s about to have another one.

Jordan Rubin

Why Jeanine Pirro can’t get around the word ‘pedophile’ in the Cole Allen case

The U.S. attorney overseeing the case against Trump’s alleged would-be assassin said she doesn’t “really care” about an inflammatory, but important, piece of evidence.

Jordan Rubin

The Roberts Court’s ‘demolition’ of the Voting Rights Act is now ‘complete’

This week’s Deadline: Legal Newsletter analyzes one of the Supreme Court’s biggest rulings as the justices enter the term’s final stretch.

Jordan Rubin

Cole Allen’s alleged letter doesn’t name Trump. That puts the DOJ in an awkward spot

The Justice Department says the suspect in the correspondents’ dinner attack was talking about Trump when he referred to a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor.”

Jordan Rubin

Kagan torches new Supreme Court ruling that guts key voting rights provision

Dissenting justices argued that the ruling rendered a key voting rights protection “all but a dead letter.”

Jordan Rubin

How can Cole Tomas Allen be charged with attempted assassination?

“Deadline: White House” legal analyst Jordan Rubin answers your questions about the Supreme Court, Trump administration lawsuits and other issues.

Jordan Rubin