The usual answer is the Second Amendment and our distinctive gun culture. But even former Supreme Court Justice Antonin ...

Sixty years ago, on Dec. 16, 1965, students Mary Beth Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt were sent home from school for wearing black armbands to protest the U.S. government’s policy in […] The post ...

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More than two decades ago, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision prohibiting the execution of people with ...

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether ...

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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will speak Friday at a conference of Catholic legal scholars seeking to expand Christian influence on public policy. The sponsor is barring journalists from covering ...

An existential legal challenge to abortion shield law protections seeks to make an example out of a Bay Area doctor.

Among the 116 justices to have served on the U.S. Supreme Court in its more than 230-year history, only a handful have gained the mythic status that we commonly refer to as a "giant of the law." There ...