Justice Lewis Powell’s ruling in the 1978 case Regents v. Bakke buoyed affirmative action—but in the process, it transformed how colleges think about race and equality in admissions.

“The Dred Scott case of 1857 is the most famous — or notorious — in all of our judicial history,” says Fred Rodell, professor of law at Yale University. Mr. Rodell’s latest book, Nine Men, is a political history of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Citing writers from W.E.B. Du Bois to Ta-Nehisi Coates, the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor takes issue with a ruling on unlawful searches.

The latest attempt to use the Supreme Court to eviscerate a key liberal constituency seems like a thoroughly partisan operation.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of race in some admissions decisions, but it doesn’t mean all colleges are free to employ the practice.

Three years after his polarizing confirmation hearings, the Supreme Court’s 114th justice remains a mystery.

Over the past half century, siding with the powerful against the vulnerable has been the rule in almost every area of the law.

Trump has crossed a great divide in society.

The rhetoric around the Supreme Court nominee pits a “Boy Scout” persona against a “frat guy.” But #MeToo has shown the limits of such labels.