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 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.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to halt an execution on Tuesday despite a juror’s racial slurs against the inmate.
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.
Why Supreme Court justices have more free time than ever—and why it should be taken away