Today's decisions may not provide the deus ex machina that brings down Trump, but they slam the brakes on runaway executive power.

The justice’s dissent in a little-regarded case strikes an important blow against the right’s efforts to decimate the federal government.

The chief justice threads a judicial needle and hands the conservative legal movement another disappointing ruling.

The Supreme Court grants a reprieve to hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants. Their fate will now be decided in the November election.

It's commonly held that letting the cops do crimes is a big no-no, but thanks to a zany lower court ruling the question is in the Supreme Court's hands.

The 50-year effort to advance a conservative legal agenda

The chief justice's year-end report dwells heavily on the preservation of our civic life, without noting his hand in its undoing.

Having failed in its first effort to subvert democracy, the Trump administration has found subtler means to achieve its end.

The state's response to a lawsuit by four black voters shows the wide ramifications of the Supreme Court's recent gerrymandering ruling.

How a long-standing Supreme Court precedent is hindering constitutional challenges of partisan gerrymandering.

His attempt to include a citizenship question on the census is part of a broader legal crusade that predates his presidency—and will outlive it.

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

In Rucho v. Common Cause, the conservative majority gave its approval to gerrymandering electoral districts to favor entrenched political interests.

With their decision Thursday, the justices offered a strong rebuke of the Trump administration's proposal to add a citizenship question to the census—but gave the administration the option of coming up with a better excuse.

Pete Buttigieg's plan is constitutionally dubious and would enshrine the very problem it seeks to eradicate. Here's a different solution.

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.

The Supreme Court might buy the president's twisted legal theories, but the lower courts see more clearly.

Passing a federal law to enshrine Roe v. Wade would require control of the White House and Congress—and approval from the Supreme Court.

If America is becoming a monarchy, it's not Trump who's king.

This term, the conservative justices are dreaming up alternate realities to justify their preordained conclusions.