The Washington insider has been working for decades to put conservatives on the state and federal bench.

For all the hype about the spiritual beliefs of Trump’s nominee, the court’s current majority has firmly established a new order.

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

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

Much like their client, the White House’s lawyers don’t seem to understand what a president does, but they’re not letting that stop them.

The public airing of Supreme Court arguments has laid bare just how ill-equipped the justices are to handle the basic tenets of Indian law.

The conservative justices signaled they want to limit agencies' ability to regulate. That could have disastrous consequences for the planet.

The Supreme Court justice had no patience for a legal challenge to a huge Christian cross maintained with taxpayer dollars.

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

Led by Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court's originalists are taking aim at the landmark precedents set by liberal justices decades ago.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority will stop at nothing to preserve capital punishment in America.

The Supreme Court may declare that half the state is still Indian country under federal law.

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.