By making it harder to punish official misconduct, the justices risk damage to America's republican institutions.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a law in Connecticut that bans assault weapons.

Not even the Roberts Court is willing to brook open defiance to its rulings.

Neil Gorsuch has spent his career considering questions of life’s ends—and beginnings.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the state’s jury-sentencing system in capital cases violates the Sixth Amendment.

Today's lower court ruling deferred to the Supreme Court's 1979 decision, Smith v. Maryland. Should that case still matter?

Imperialism has left tricky sovereignty questions with which the U.S. Supreme Court is only now reckoning.

The Constitution protects the rights of minorities—and despite their rhetoric, both Republicans and Democrats support that.

A rules change to confirm Supreme Court nominations would mark just the latest, incremental step toward intensifying partisanship in Congress.