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When candidates can get elected to Congress based on a mountain of lies they’ve told, is it time to reconsider whether such lies are protected by the First Amendment?
The justices who decided to overturn the abortion rights precedent of Roe v. Wade explained their reasoning, and signaled other precedents could be reversed as well.
There is value in observing legal precedent, but sometimes circumstances, logic or judges’ views determine it’s time to overturn it.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death sparked many tributes to her work ending sex discrimination against women. That work also paved the way for successes in the fight for equal rights for the LGBTQ community.
There’s been a reversal of power between religious and secular sides of American culture. The Supreme Court is now at the center of that shift.
After the recent government shutdown and breakdowns in functioning within all three branches, it looks like the separation of powers system is broken or unbalanced. It is – and it isn’t.
A law professor writes “the future of Roe v. Wade looks tenuous.” That gives more power to the states – including four that have passed “trigger laws” to outlaw abortion if Roe is overturned.
Citizens United, issued 10 years ago, is one of the most controversial and scorned rulings in modern Supreme Court history. Is that condemnation undeserved?
Democrats won the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections, but Republican presidents have appointed a majority of the sitting justices. Is the court out of step with America?
A legal scholar explains why Kennedy’s opinions on same-sex relationship rest on fragile constitutional grounds.
With Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, President Trump will appoint a second justice to the Supreme Court. Will his nominees be impartial if Trump ends up in the court because of the Russia probe?
Appointing judges to lifetime terms can be among a president’s longest lasting legacies. The overwhelming majority of Trump’s nominees are conservative, white and male.
What will happen to the landmark abortion rights ruling with Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court?
The long-serving justice changed how judges talk about statutes, but not, argues one law professor, how they ultimately interpret them.
This week’s news brings an important “ah hah” moment. The conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries and their political network of donors and opaque outside groups are…














