Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement marks the end of an era on the Supreme Court—and a turn toward hard-edged partisanship.

The justices voted not to stay a lower court’s ruling that extended early voting and restored same-day registration in the swing state.

A better version of the independent state legislature theory is proving difficult to figure out.

The chief justice has enshrined bad-faith argumentation as the legal strategy most likely to succeed at the Supreme Court.

A majority on the Supreme Court lets states know it is serious about barring executions of the mentally disabled.

A new guns case reveals that the once-noble institution has died, and we’re left working with its corpse.

At oral arguments Thursday, the Supreme Court debated whether some means of taking a life are too cruel for the state to employ.