Next month marks the 60 th anniversary of the passing of the Voting Rights Act—a law often celebrated as the “crown jewel” of ...

She has become the great dissenter, sometimes siding with Justices Sonia Sotomayor or Elena Kagan or sometimes standing alone.

President Trump’s Justice Department (DOJ) has the back of Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) in its attempt to use an obscure law to ...

President Donald Trump’s administration says it is ending the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops sent to Los Angeles ...

India’s ambition to become a first-world nation by 2047 hinges critically on reforming its legal system. The current judicial ...

Efforts to redefine the 14th Amendment could leave thousands of children stateless and trigger constitutional battles.

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In a Supreme Court term that handed Trump and conservatives, big wins, Ketanji Brown Jackson − the newest justice − has ...

On the day before this week’s Independence Day celebrations on July Fourth, I observed the 64th anniversary of the day I ...

The ideological divide was clear in cases in which the justices acted on an emergency basis, sometimes called the "shadow docket." ...

For the second time in two weeks, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned her colleagues aren't evenly weighing the scales of justice.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a case involving a Massachusetts public school teacher who sued on free ...