Sidestepping thorny constitutional questions and focusing on substance and procedure, the appellate panel offered the justices an escape route, if they care to take it.

The Grand Canyon state wants a divorce from the largest of the federal appellate jurisdictions—but is that the right solution to its problems?

The question the Senate confirmation process must address is whether the department’s tradition of independence will be supplanted by a new value: loyalty.

In Bank Markazi v. Peterson, the justices decided that Congress can change the rules while a case is still being litigated.

President Obama’s new Supreme Court nominee called his work on the case “the most important thing I have ever done in my life.”

But instead he got a fair one, and was convicted by a jury of his peers.