Kevin Daley covers the Supreme Court for the Washington Free Beacon. He has covered the Supreme Court since 2016. His email is daley@freebeacon.com.
An executive order on LGBT rights signed by President Joe Biden on Wednesday signals the start of a bitter cultural clash that will loom large over his presidency. 
The Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with an audacious climate-change lawsuit from the city of Baltimore, which seeks millions of dollars for damage allegedly caused by energy providers. 
Former Hillary Clinton aide Brian Fallon and his judicial advocacy group Demand Justice are pressing corporate contributors to end their support of the Federalist Society, citing a prominent member's involvement with the White House rally that preceded the Capitol riot. Federal authorities are contending with daunting tasks as they build criminal cases against rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6. 
A judicial oversight group is pressing to disqualify Sens. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) from the Supreme Court bar because of their connection to the Capitol riot. 
Kristen Clarke, President-elect Joe Biden's pick to lead the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, advanced pseudoscientific theories of black racial superiority and organized an event with a notorious anti-Semite as a student at Harvard University.
Federal authorities have announced a wave of arrests connected to Wednesday's assault on the Capitol, including a West Virginia state lawmaker.
A little-known Justice Department holdover has been thrust into the center of a national crisis after thousands of Trump-inspired rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. 
President Trump has a chance to vindicate one of his core election complaints—that 11th-hour changes to voting rules usurped the constitutional authority of state legislatures—even if he won't overturn the election. 
A new lawsuit is inflaming tensions on the right between the powerful, business-friendly Koch political network and a rising coalition of populist conservatives pushing for a crackdown on Silicon Valley. 