The Supreme Court will consider whether Texas’s outdated standard on intellectual disability and executions violates the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

The Supreme Court’s right-wing justices claim to be originalists, but then they pick and choose the history that fits their ideological preferences.

The end of affirmative action will pressure high schoolers to write about their race through formulaic and belittling narrative tropes.

The Nebraska Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the pipeline, adding to the pressure on President Obama to approve it.

The Supreme Court must decide the fate of a murderer—and whether roughly half of Oklahoma is rightfully reservation land.

As the U.S. Supreme Court considers Foster, the standards that govern peremptory challenges are back on the table.

Two months after a Supreme Court defeat, the U.S. Justice Department moved Thursday to dismiss its corruption case against the former Virginia governor and his wife.

The lawyers challenging the university are testing out their arguments to see which ones stick ahead of a potential appeal to the Supreme Court.

A half century after Justice Lewis Powell applied the logic of tobacco manufacturers to dismiss empirical studies, a state supreme court decided to accept their findings.