An interview with J. T. Smith, who was there when the Justice Department concluded that a sitting president can't be indicted

If Trump wanted to give himself sweeping new powers, could anyone stop him?

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

New evidence confirms the Trump administration wants a citizenship question on the census for one reason: To suppress Latinx votes.

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.

Republican attempts at voter suppression have inspired a movement to restore and expand access to the polls.

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

The quest for radical equality in the American grain

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

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

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

When the Supreme Court hears arguments in Parker Drilling, the future of states' rights to regulate the oil industry could hang in the balance.

The president is building a constitutional case to keep the documents out of Congress' hands.

The conservative justices' convoluted opinions are undermining the court's legitimacy more than any confirmation battle could.

Chief Justice John Roberts may have the final say on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's ambitious plan to fight global warming.

Congress is allowed to change the size of the Supreme Court, and it has done so seven times. The country survived just fine.

American democracy can't afford for yet another critical institution to be crippled by partisan warfare.

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

Three cases being heard this term could amplify the imbalance of power and influence in U.S. politics.