The end of affirmative action will pressure high schoolers to write about their race through formulaic and belittling narrative tropes.
The Supreme Court must decide the fate of a murderer—and whether roughly half of Oklahoma is rightfully reservation land.
The Nebraska Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the pipeline, adding to the pressure on President Obama to approve it.
As the U.S. Supreme Court considers Foster, the standards that govern peremptory challenges are back on the table.
Two months after a Supreme Court defeat, the U.S. Justice Department moved Thursday to dismiss its corruption case against the former Virginia governor and his wife.
The lawyers challenging the university are testing out their arguments to see which ones stick ahead of a potential appeal to the Supreme Court.
A half century after Justice Lewis Powell applied the logic of tobacco manufacturers to dismiss empirical studies, a state supreme court decided to accept their findings.
Justice Don Willett of the Texas Supreme Court has no trouble winning votes. But here's why he thinks the whole system is wrong.
As the justices consider the limits of partisanship in two major cases, will questions about the Court’s own politics be its undoing?
The conservative justices’ interpretation of the Federal Arbitration Act could cripple employee challenges to wage, hour, working-conditions, and job-status disputes.