These are the ingredients that have set up a major Supreme Court case about excessive fines that could shape the future of criminal asset forfeiture across the United States.

The high court’s decision in Landor v. Louisiana Dept. of Corrections and Public Safety could incapacitate the legislative branch’s policymaking powers.

In the high court’s latest term, the chief practitioners of this purportedly neutral doctrine had a hard time keeping their stories straight.

The conservative legal movement lost its bid to eradicate birthright citizenship, but its war on the Reconstruction Amendments is going to continue.

His 10-page opinion is strangely adrift from rhyme or reason, and it ends up reinforcing a far more extreme position than any of his colleagues’.

With the Supreme Court allowing the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians, national and local economies could feel the sting.

In Trump v. Slaughter, the Progressive era takes it on the chin.

The ruling was ultimately a victory for the Fourteenth Amendment and a loss for the conservative legal movement that’s been trying to erase it.

Split rulings in two presidential appointment cases allowed John Roberts to have his cake and eat it too. The rest of us will pay the price.

The conservative bloc’s only consistent practice is its inconsistent application of its own “history-and-tradition” test.

The smart and totally justified way to do it: Increase the number of judicial circuits.

Samuel Alito led the majority on a despicable, precedent-shredding misadventure so that they could whitewash the president’s calumnies and expel the refugees he hates.

A pair of less heralded decisions shine a bright light on the Roberts court’s appetite for constitutional destruction.

An upcoming case in the high court’s next term may determine whether people in federal custody can seek legal remedy for violations of their constitutional rights.

The latest Second Amendment case is just the latest to highlight the chaos wrought by the high court’s new “history and tradition” test.

Florida’s use of six-person juries is heavily at odds with our legal traditions—and on a collision course with a hostile high court.

A shadow docket reveals that for some justices, there are limits to how cruel an execution can be. And for others, there are none.

Brendan Sorsby may have violated the league’s rules, but college football’s governing body is discovering just how unsustainable the organization’s legal status really is.

The high court’s Callais ruling is already being used to delete majority-minority federal districts. But its most catastrophic impact may be felt closer to home.