That's the message the Supreme Court is sending as we approach the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, a famous defendants' rights case.
Modern Supreme Court nominees never discuss how they feel about specific cases. Chuck Schumer believes that should change when President Trump’s pick faces the Senate.
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.
Its decision to let states opt out of the Medicaid expansion turned out to have lethal consequences.
The Supreme Court could have a major role to play in deciding whether workers can challenge their status as independent contractors.
Democrats are looking to hit Republican lawmakers where they’re most vulnerable.
A timid ruling sends the matter back to the trial court for more review -- guaranteeing more voting chaos between now and Election Day.
In upholding same-sex-marriage bans, Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton said the people should decide, but his ruling virtually guaranteed the opposite.
The Supreme Court will consider whether Texas’s outdated standard on intellectual disability and executions violates the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.