The president has commuted the sentences of 37 men on federal death row to life without parole, a historic move.
The justices’ decision not to wade into a sloppy coup attempt is no victory for rule of law.
Labor leaders are sizing up a president who could be a friend or, more likely, a foe.
Just as liberal judges trapped 1970s Democrats in a "soft on crime" paradigm, conservatives on the Court will make it harder for the GOP to shake a reputation as the party of plutocrats.
The Court holds that an inmate wasn't badly represented; his lawyers were so feckless that he had no lawyers at all.
What one of the Supreme Court’s most humiliating mistakes tells us about the debate over Colin Kaepernick’s national-anthem protest.
... According to the law.
The decision was basically a punt, but it was a far better outcome than civil-rights groups had feared.