The hard question is whether the justices should ban all racial preferences in university admissions
On Wednesday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 2013 hate-crime conviction against 15 members of an Amish separatist group who forcibly cut the beards of others in their faith. The ruling has re-opened a question: How could this happen?
A ban on its track-and-field athletes competing in at the Rio Olympics is upheld.
The judiciary defers to the legislature. The legislature defers to the executive. And the executive says it's implementing what the lawmakers and the judges decided.
A series of southern states have ignored federal court rulings on voting rights.
Sidestepping thorny constitutional questions and focusing on substance and procedure, the appellate panel offered the justices an escape route, if they care to take it.
It's been a year since the Supreme Court gutted the law, and racial justice remains elusive.
The Grand Canyon state wants a divorce from the largest of the federal appellate jurisdictions—but is that the right solution to its problems?