The United States Supreme Court, dominated by a cadre of Republican appointed justices, has become a disgrace to our troubled ...

In early November, a conservative Supreme Court justice showed a clear-eyed understanding of the threat that President Trump poses to the constitutional order. During an oral argument in a case ...

As we regularly note, we read a lot of legal news as we prepare this newsletter. Here’s the most memorable headline we saw this week: No Religious Discrimination Shown in […] ...

In this week's Elie v. U.S., The Nation’s justice correspondent recaps a major death penalty case that came before the high court as well as the shenanigans of a man who’s angling to be the next ...

An unusually large pileup of Second Amendment challenges has landed at the Supreme Court, which will consider taking up the ...

Gender identity or biological sex? The bathroom is the next battleground in national fight over transgender and LGBTQ+ rights in the workplace ...

New presidents cannot come into office and fire existing officials just to install preferred leaders in their place. But that is exactly what Trump did.

In practice, that has meant more expert, technocratic leadership. It has meant more corporate regulation than Republicans ...

Alabama told the Supreme Court on Wednesday the state should be allowed to execute a man federal courts have repeatedly said ...

Eye rolls, gestures and interruptions in a "conundrum" of a case about how to measure intellectual disability in death ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty ...

Conservative justices asked whether the Supreme Court needs to sharpen its guidance on how courts assess intellectual ...