Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter laments the recent string of divided decisions and urges a return to efforts to reach consensus, or near consensus, about the Constitution.
The Supreme Court declined to hear a major religious-freedom case on Tuesday, showing how much things have changed since Hobby Lobby.
The former acting solicitor general said that the Republican blockade against the onetime Supreme Court nominee represented a breakdown of checks and balances.
As the Supreme Court hears arguments for legalizing same-sex unions nationally, shifting public opinion could convince the justices to act.
What was once a fringe legal theory now stands a real chance of being adopted by the Supreme Court.
Today's Supreme Court decisions mean 30 percent of Americans live in a state where gay marriage is legal.
The Connecticut Supreme Court rejected an attempt by prosecutors to reverse last year's abolition ruling.
A decade ago, West Virginia foreshadowed the influence that money and politics have come to have on state judiciaries. Now it may warn of a worrying new trend.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to halt an execution on Tuesday despite a juror’s racial slurs against the inmate.