The president’s move has already been challenged in court. Win or lose, he is almost certainly forcing an alarming judicial precedent.
The Supreme Court will consider whether a Mississippi prosecutor’s long record of excluding black jurors amounted to unconstitutional race discrimination.
We’re already living in Phyllis Schlafly’s nightmare.
The court’s move added a highly charged and consequential blockbuster to what had been a fairly sleepy term. Critics say that adding the question would undermine the count.
The justice attended a private conference to consider adding cases to the court’s docket, including ones on the census and gay rights.
Declaring a national emergency over a border wall lets the president avoid another damaging shutdown while not surrendering. But it could do long-term damage, experts say.
The fact that the president may have the authority to throw away billions on a foolish campaign promise is itself scandalous.
The chief justice faces a time of great testing, both of himself and of the institution he heads, as the lower courts move rapidly even to his right.
By upholding abortion precedent, the usually conservative justice may also be seeking to uphold something else.
Domineque Hakim Marcelle Ray wanted an imam by his side when he was executed. The Supreme Court said no.
The chief justice, a student of legal rules governing precedent, balances guarding his court’s legitimacy against his generally conservative impulses.
The chief justice, a student of legal rules governing precedent, balances guarding his court’s legitimacy against his generally conservative impulses.
The movement has advanced a long-term and wide-ranging strategy to control state legislatures and governorships, in order to chip away at abortion rights.
Readers discuss a Supreme Court decision on Louisiana’s abortion restrictions and an Op-Ed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo on protecting the right to choose.
Alabama allows a Christian chaplain to be present in its execution chamber but excluded a Muslim imam. The inmate, Domineque Ray, was executed Thursday night.
The law, requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, was very similar to a Texas law the justices struck down in 2016.
In his State of the Union address, he used scary imagery that scientists say is incorrect.
In his State of the Union address, he used scary imagery that scientists say is incorrect.
The president and the religious right are spreading falsehoods about abortion laws to inflame their base.
How Catholicism's decline increased partisan polarization on abortion.
The law, requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, was essentially identical to one in Texas that the justices struck down in 2016.
If the justices fail to intervene in our case, the future of Roe v. Wade will be in enormous jeopardy.
Do the political activities of Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife cross a line?
An obscure New York City gun case could tempt the justices to make broad pronouncements about a right they haven’t addressed in a decade.
A three-member panel dismissed a challenge to the top court’s October decision to free Asia Bibi, a Christian farmworker who had spent eight years on death row.
It promised to create a ‘robust’ waiver process for visa applicants from countries affected by the travel ban. The process is a sham.
At the meeting, which was unusual for the spouse of a Supreme Court justice and a president, the activists denounced women serving in the military and questioned the administration’s hiring.
There was no need for the Supreme Court to reinstate a misguided ban on transgender service members.
The attack on Khadija Siddiqi, a law student, and her subsequent campaign for justice have led to a national debate.
For years, a family named Parker lived at Spider-Man’s real address, on Ingram Street. Not any more.
The justices chose not to protect the rights of transgender patriots like me.
Forty-six years after Roe, the two camps increasingly disagree on basic facts about abortion — and who has the authority to determine them.
The court’s inaction almost certainly means it will not hear the administration’s challenge in its current term, which ends in June.
It is the court’s first Second Amendment case in nearly a decade and most likely means the court will start exploring and perhaps expanding gun rights.
By a 5 to 4 vote, justices temporarily stayed trial court decisions blocking the policy while litigation in the lower courts moves forward.
By a 5-to-4 vote, justices temporarily stayed trial court decisions blocking the policy while litigation in the lower courts moves forward.
Abortion rights are under threat from the Supreme Court. But states can take critical actions.
Political activism could have a big effect on the politics of the shutdown. So far, it’s having almost no effect.
Two years ago, the court struck down a ban on disparaging trademarks. Now, in a case about a clothing line’s name, it will consider what to do about scandalous ones.