The president returned to his con-law roots to hit Republicans on Merrick Garland’s stalled nomination.

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

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

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

India's supreme court has restored a 150-year-old law criminalizing homosexuality.

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

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

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

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