The U.S. Supreme Court has spent a decade limiting the harshest sentence given to juvenile offenders. But state supreme courts are still grappling with how those rulings should play out.
The justices rejected a bid by Democrats to throw out the rule that Republicans have repeatedly used to block legislation. Now, it could be the Democrats who soon benefit.
Congress and the Supreme Court are moving toward reining in the Bush administration's gratuitously harsh and arbitrary treatment of suspected enemy combatants. Better late than never.
The U.S. Supreme Court halts a major EPA regulation Tuesday as lower courts deliberate its future.
A judge in Illinois temporarily put the initiative on hold while legal proceedings continue.
The legal challenge to Wisconsin’s State Assembly maps could deliver a landmark precedent.
The Supreme Court vacated Bob McDonnell’s 2014 corruption conviction in a unanimous decision Monday.
A decision written by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia helps explain why North Carolina's H.B.2 bathroom bill is illegal.