The Supreme Court said in 2010 that the decision wouldn’t damage Americans’ faith in democracy. Whoops.

A pair of death penalty decisions reaffirms a sad fact about the high court: There is a majority of justices who want to keep the executions coming.

As more and more judges engineer their own end-of-career successions, the rule of law is starting to warp in dangerous and unsustainable ways.

The Supreme Court’s 6–3 tilt is inspiring right-wing judicial actors to take legal moon shots they wouldn’t have dared to attempt not long ago.

The high court’s irreconcilable conflict over the sentencing of young criminals is a product of the mess the former justice left behind.

On the “postliberal” future of the federal courts

The conservative justice’s ruling in favor of gay, queer, and transgender workers shows the limits of the right’s Faustian bargain on judges.

Though liberals could issue a few sighs of relief, the recent term signaled a continued consolidation of conservative power.

Missouri is poised to lose its last abortion provider, increasing the large swath of the country where the nearest clinic is impossibly far for poor and rural women.

Another four years of Trump will widen the conservative tilt of the Supreme Court. So why aren't the Democratic candidates talking about it?

The Supreme Court will decide whether Maryland taxpayers should have to support the Christian symbol.

Western state lawmakers from both parties are making a pragmatic case for abolishing capital punishment.

Capital punishment is losing support in the United States, but what about on the Supreme Court?

Whether citizens of all stripes enjoy broad legal protections increasingly depends on where they live.

Republican attempts to exclude African Americans from the polls echoes efforts by Southern whites that enabled the Jim Crow era.

If Harvard ends up losing its case at the conservative Supreme Court, schools will have to find more creative ways to maintain diversity.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh's first chance to roll back abortion rights almost certainly won't be a challenge to Roe v. Wade.

The Supreme Court justice's confirmation marks a new, degraded era in American governance.

They've been trying for decades to remake the Supreme Court, but have suffered one disappointment after another.

Kavanaugh's confirmation may convince them to destroy the Supreme Court in order to save it.