Supreme Court: A new term, a new justice, a blockbuster docket
Often between extremes lies a more moderate option. In a number of cases this term, where the U.S. Supreme Court lands on that spectrum could transform American life.
Read moreSupreme Court turns to history: How does past speak to the present?
As the U.S. moves forward, its highest court is looking to the past. But putting a premium on history and tradition leaves open several questions.
Read moreWith Roe in peril, ‘slippery slope’ looms larger for LGBTQ Americans
The Supreme Court appears on the cusp of overturning a right – to abortion – for the first time in modern history. What happens to other rights unpopular with conservative Christians that, like abortion, were underpinned by the 14th Amendment?
Read moreOriginalism moves from theory to high court. What that means for US.
Can looking back help America move forward, judicially? That’s the question facing originalism, a legal theory that holds more power than ever and could launch a shift in law as dramatic as the Warren and Burger courts.
Read moreWhy abortion fight isn’t over if Roe is overturned
In the rare instances the Supreme Court has overturned a constitutional precedent, it has typically been to expand, not revoke, a right. That may be changing for abortion rights, and states and their constitutions could find themselves even fiercer battlegrounds.
Read moreTo understand this Supreme Court, watch Clarence Thomas
This last Supreme Court term didn’t take shape as many expected. But the key to understanding how the court might evolve could lie in its most conservative member.
Read moreSupreme Court’s day of culture war surprises
The Supreme Court may, like America itself, be more partisan than ever. But Thursday offered two big cases that did not break along predictable ideological lines.
Read moreOn the Supreme Court docket: Fairness, textualism, and crack cocaine
The sentencing rule treating crack cocaine as 100 times worse than powder is seen by bipartisan critics as a punitive remnant of the war on drugs. The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear a case that could deliver a telling blow – or a telling victory – for reform.
Read moreWith Amy Coney Barrett, a once-fringe legal philosophy goes mainstream
Is the First Amendment the most important? Adherents of the conservative Christian legal movement believe so – particularly the Free Exercise clause, which they argue has been given short shrift as America has become less religious.
Read moreRuth Bader Ginsburg: Fierce women’s advocate, and icon in her own right
Rare is the Supreme Court justice able to create a distinct legacy. Rarer still is the justice able to create a distinct legacy, shape an entire area of the law, and become a pop culture icon: the fiery, jabot-wearing “Notorious RBG.”
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