Noah Feldman

Abortion rights activists participate in a "Bans Off Our Bodies" rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on May 14, 2022. Abortion rights supporters are holding rallies around the country urging lawmakers to affirm abortion rights into law.

Noah Feldman: Supreme Court justices are acting more like politicans

May 16, 2022 at 10:00 a.m.

The Supreme Court is unraveling. The leak last week of Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion that would overturn the 1973 abortion rights precedent Roe v. Wade is just part of...

Voting rights activists march on the National Mall in Washington on June 26, 2021.

Op-ed: Supreme Court undermines voting rights and itself

July 2, 2021 at 10:01 p.m.

The Supreme Court struck a double blow with its decision Thursday to narrow the meaning of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The first undermines the ability of courts to police...

Op-ed: Students can speak freely, thanks to cheerleader

June 24, 2021 at 7:24 p.m.

In a landmark First Amendment opinion, the Supreme Court has limited schools' ability to punish students for off-campus speech. In a case involving a cheerleader who was suspended from her...

An American flag flies outside the Department of Justice in Washington in March 2019.

Column: We don’t want the Justice Department investigating Congress

June 16, 2021 at 8:32 p.m.

All sorts of information is now spilling out about how former President Donald Trump's Department of Justice sought to investigate leaks related to the Russia investigation. Under Trump, the department...

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signs the first state bill in the U.S. this year to ban transgender athletes from competing on female sports teams, as supporting lawmakers gather behind him March 11, 2021.

Op-ed: Medical ban for trans kids is morally repugnant, yet likely legal

April 10, 2021 at 12:07 a.m.

Over a veto by the state's Republican governor, Arkansas has passed a bill, known as the SAFE Act, prohibiting range of gender transition medical treatments for people under 18, with...

Residents of the District of Columbia rally for statehood near the U.S. Capitol on March 22, 2021. The District has a population of nearly 700,000 residents.

Op-ed: DC statehood, the filibuster and the race for more senators

March 25, 2021 at 8:27 p.m.

House Democrats are poised to vote for Washington, D.C., statehood. As in the past, the proposal is being met with total Republican opposition. What's different this time is that a...

President Trump holds a copy of The Washington Post on Feb. 6, 2020, as he speaks at the White House one day after the U.S. Senate acquitted him on two articles of impeachment.

Column: Did Trump’s impeachment matter in the end?

December 21, 2020 at 8:41 p.m.

It's hard to believe, but one year ago the big news story was President Donald Trump's impeachment. Twelve months later, a viral pandemic is killing thousands of Americans every day...

Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's lawyer, arrives to speak to reporters in Washington on Nov. 19, 2020. Giuliani has been at the forefront of promoting the president's baseless claims of election irregularities.

Commentary: Pardoning Rudy Giuliani would put Trump in legal jeopardy

December 2, 2020 at 11:12 p.m.

If President Donald Trump wants to avoid federal criminal investigation once he's out of office, here's my free advice: Don't pardon Rudy Giuliani. The New York Times reports that the...

Donald Trump supporters congregate before the president appeared at a campaign rally Oct. 17, 2020, at Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville.

Commentary: Trump can’t ignore the election results without a lot of help

October 19, 2020 at 8:06 p.m.

At Thursday's town hall, President Donald Trump took a tiny step back from his repeated refusals to say he'll leave office if he loses the election. Yet he continued to...

Demonstrators exercise their freedom of speech at Daley Plaza on May 31, 2020, in the fallout from the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. President Donald Trump tweeted a threat to label antifa a 'terrorist organization" in an attempt to pin blame for the weekend's violence on the loose collection of far-left activists.

Commentary: Trump’s threat to label antifa a ‘terrorist organization’ is a threat to free speech

June 1, 2020 at 11:17 p.m.

On Sunday, President Donald Trump tweeted that the executive branch will designate antifa as a "terrorist organization," apparently in an attempt to pin blame for the weekend's violence on the...

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