Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement marks the end of an era on the Supreme Court—and a turn toward hard-edged partisanship.

The justices voted not to stay a lower court’s ruling that extended early voting and restored same-day registration in the swing state.

A better version of the independent state legislature theory is proving difficult to figure out.

A new guns case reveals that the once-noble institution has died, and we’re left working with its corpse.

The chief justice has enshrined bad-faith argumentation as the legal strategy most likely to succeed at the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has been a major influence on matters of racial equality, individual rights, and economic liberty. His replacement could be even more influential.

A majority on the Supreme Court lets states know it is serious about barring executions of the mentally disabled.

At oral arguments Thursday, the Supreme Court debated whether some means of taking a life are too cruel for the state to employ.