Benjamin Wittes and five other plaintiffs filed a federal First Amendment lawsuit challenging the White House's practice of excluding journalists based on unfavorable reporting

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The United States Senate possesses constitutional authority to determine whether to seat its own members

The Kansas Bill of Rights prohibits imprisonment as a penalty for financial indebtedness

The Supreme Court case Monsanto v. Durnell addresses whether the Environmental Protection Agency holds sole authority over chemical safety determinations, preempting state claims

Federal felony prosecutions under the Fifth Amendment require a grand jury indictment unless the defendant consents to proceed by information

The Knight First Amendment Institute filed a lawsuit on behalf of Benjamin Wittes and other plaintiffs in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

The lawsuit challenging the proposed Washington, D.C. arch asserts an ultra vires cause of action alleging that construction on federal land in the District of Columbia requires congressional approval

In the Supreme Court case Monsanto v. Durnell, the United States Department of Justice submitted an amicus brief supporting Bayer

On October 30, 2026, Judge Tanya Chutkan held a hearing on a preliminary injunction seeking to halt construction of a proposed monumental arch on federal land in Washington, D.C.

A federal court in Alabama ruled that warrantless searches conducted by federal agents on construction job sites are illegal

The First Amendment lawsuit filed by Benjamin Wittes and five other plaintiffs was assigned to District Judge Lorna Schofield in the Southern District of New York

The lawsuit filed by Benjamin Wittes and fellow plaintiffs asserts a First Amendment right of the public to receive news and information from the White House press corps

The federal government sued California under the Supremacy Clause, alleging the state facilitated noncitizen voting in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 611

In Carson v. Makin, the Supreme Court invalidated a Maine tuition assistance program that restricted state funding to nonsectarian secondary schools

Guerrero v. Johnson addresses whether an Eighth Amendment intellectual disability claim under Atkins v. Virginia can be asserted after diagnostic standards moved away from strict IQ score cutoffs

In 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, the Supreme Court ruled that Colorado could not compel a website designer to create websites celebrating same-sex marriages

In Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer (2017), the Supreme Court ruled that Missouri could not exclude religious schools from a playground resurfacing grant program

St. Mary Catholic Parish argued that conditioning participation in Colorado's universal preschool program on compliance with sexual orientation non-discrimination rules violates the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause

In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the Supreme Court held that Montana could not exclude religious schools from a state tax-credit scholarship program

State constitutional Blaine amendments originated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to prohibit the use of public funds for religious schools

Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan joined the majority opinion in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer