The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is scrapping its experimental playbook in favor of something much more familiar: classic enforcement. Under its new leadership, the agency is steering away from cutting-edge legal theories and back toward the kind of cases that built its name—think insider trading, deceptive accounting, and schemes preying on vulnerable investors. “We’re …

SEC Charts Return to Basics as Leadership Shifts Gears Read More »

In a collision of finance, fandom, and controversy, Robinhood is back in the crosshairs—this time for letting users wager on March Madness matchups through a new prediction market hub. And Massachusetts isn’t exactly cheering from the sidelines. State regulators, led by Secretary of State Bill Galvin, have launched a formal probe into the trading platform’s …

Robinhood’s March Madness Bet Draws Heat from Massachusetts Watchdog Read More »

A federal judge didn’t mince words during a fiery courtroom exchange that underscored the chaos and secrecy surrounding a controversial Trump-era deportation strategy: “Nazis got better treatment,” she declared. At the heart of the legal showdown is a centuries-old law—the 1798 Alien Enemies Act—revived by the Trump administration to expel Venezuelan migrants accused of gang …

Even the Nazis Got a Hearing”: Judge Slams Trump-Era Deportations of Venezuelan Migrants Read More »

What began as a bureaucratic buzzword—“efficiency”—has rapidly transformed into a seismic force rattling the very bones of the U.S. federal government. It’s called DOGE: the Department of Government Efficiency. The name is misleading, the mission sprawling, and the figure at the center? Elon Musk, a man who seems to toggle between space launches and federal …

Shadow Bureaucracy: Inside Elon Musk’s Unofficial Empire Within Washington Read More »

In a showdown that pits the White House against the federal judiciary, President Donald Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and reverse a lower court’s order that would force his administration to rehire thousands of fired government workers. The move escalates his ongoing crusade to shrink the federal bureaucracy and rewire …

Trump Takes Federal Firings Fight to the Supreme Court, Calls Judicial Orders a “Toxic” Threat Read More »

A hush has fallen over the American legal elite—not the calm of consensus, but the stunned silence of a profession watching one of its own strike a bargain with power. At the center: Paul Weiss, one of the most prestigious firms on Wall Street. Its chairman, Brad Karp, chose not to fight an executive order …

 Legal Titans at a Crossroads: Trump’s Ultimatum Forces Law Firms Into a High-Stakes Gamble Read More »

In a high-stakes courtroom session thick with political tension and racial reckoning, the U.S. Supreme Court stepped into the storm surrounding Louisiana’s newly redrawn congressional map—a map that has doubled the number of Black-majority districts and drawn fire from a group of non-Black voters. The state’s revised map—crafted by a Republican-led legislature—upped the count of …

Supreme Court Navigates a Tangled Map: Louisiana’s District Lines Under the Microscope Read More »