The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a law in Connecticut that bans assault weapons.

India's supreme court has restored a 150-year-old law criminalizing homosexuality.

Not even the Roberts Court is willing to brook open defiance to its rulings.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the state’s jury-sentencing system in capital cases violates the Sixth Amendment.

Today's lower court ruling deferred to the Supreme Court's 1979 decision, Smith v. Maryland. Should that case still matter?

The Constitution protects the rights of minorities—and despite their rhetoric, both Republicans and Democrats support that.

Imperialism has left tricky sovereignty questions with which the U.S. Supreme Court is only now reckoning.

The conservative movement’s decades-long pursuit of the judiciary is now paying off.

A rules change to confirm Supreme Court nominations would mark just the latest, incremental step toward intensifying partisanship in Congress.