The Supreme Court has struck down parts of a major Texas law regulating access to the procedure. To do so, it had to navigate competing claims of medical fact and an intent to protect women.
A series of Supreme Court decisions have made it easier to make anonymous campaign donations.
Disparate-impact claims survived in a 5-4 decision, but the narrow opinion suggests a tough fight ahead for civil-rights laws.
In 1987, the Supreme Court came within one vote of eliminating capital punishment in Georgia based on evidence of racial disparities. Instead, it created a precedent that civil-rights advocates have been fighting for decades.
The justice has redefined how the Supreme Court interprets statutes, a former Acting Solicitor General of the United States says.
The media are still talking about the justices' DOMA and Prop 8 decisions. But what about Vance v. Ball State University, which could have a huge impact on workers?
In the book of the year about the death penalty, author Evan Mandery chronicles the ugly political process at the Supreme Court that spawned the nation's roiling capital punishment laws.
The justice stayed far away from the Brett Kavanaugh controversy in an interview on Thursday.
For the good of the war on terrorism, the United States needs to create a National Security Court to try enemy combatants.