America Is Stuck With the Death Penalty for (at Least) a Generation
With Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement, the national fight to abolish capital punishment will have to go local.
With Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement, the national fight to abolish capital punishment will have to go local.
With Anthony Kennedy's retirement, the high court may deliver a blow to abortion rights slowly—or all at once. Here are the potential scenarios.
The Supreme Court's swing vote ended his career the way he began it: as a true-blue conservative.
Wednesday's ruling in Janus v. AFSCME, Local 31 is a blow to organized labor—and a boon for the Republican Party.
The justices signed off on Trump's travel ban at the cost of their own credibility—and perhaps emboldening him further.
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld several gerrymandered districts.
Friday's ruling was the latest to apply the Fourth Amendment to technology.
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld Ohio's aggressive effort to purge voters from its electoral rolls.
Waves of redistricting have allowed politicians to select their own voters, consolidating one-party power across America—mostly among the GOP.
The Supreme Court's conservative justices were receptive to arguments Monday that public employees shouldn't be forced to pay union fees.
In a big gay rights case, the Supreme Court's swing vote appeared swayed by the idea that Christians are the real victims of oppression.
The judge's selective approach to constitutional originalism raises serious questions about his respect for the Second Founding after the Civil War.
Her criticism of Trump was unwise, but it didn't set a dangerous precedent.
It took a very specific set of circumstances to get the Supreme Court justice to affirm the validity of race-based college admissions.
The justices ruled unanimously that Texas’s “one person, one vote” reapportionment is constitutional. But the war is far from over.
Will Scalia’s grand constitutional theory have a lasting legacy on the Supreme Court?
A case about a lethal injection drug turns into a debate about capital punishment itself