Ten questions about the challenges facing the justices in the next four years
Just as liberal activist judges have driven millions of moderates into the Republican fold, conservative activist judges could drive them back out again. Karl Rove must know this. So must President Bush.
The Supreme Court will consider whether Texas’s outdated standard on intellectual disability and executions violates the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
A timid ruling sends the matter back to the trial court for more review -- guaranteeing more voting chaos between now and Election Day.
Its decision to let states opt out of the Medicaid expansion turned out to have lethal consequences.
Democrats are looking to hit Republican lawmakers where they’re most vulnerable.
David Cole, the former legal director of the ACLU, believes that civil society helped protect the Constitution before and will do so again.
The Supreme Court’s right-wing justices claim to be originalists, but then they pick and choose the history that fits their ideological preferences.