Emergency appeals have become the tool of choice for the conservative movement.
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.