Does it help or harm justice when state and federal governments can separately prosecute a defendant for the same crime?

The consequences of his Supreme Court picks are still felt today—as Trump's will be for decades to come.

The Supreme Court has a chance to rebuke President Trump and reaffirm judicial independence. Will the justices take it?

Both conservative and liberal justices on the Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that they think the Eighth Amendment's ban on unreasonable fines also applies to the states.

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

Of course the court system is political! The first step toward changing that is acknowledging it.

How do we go about putting democracy back into public education?

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

Thanks to a 2013 ruling, Southern states are free to pass restrictive laws without government scrutiny.

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

Trump has seized the federal bench, but there's hope for Democrats in the lower judiciary.

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

The nation's founders didn't want an all-powerful court, and the Constitution provides the means for restoring its lesser role in government.

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

The text of the Constitution says no such thing.