A comedian, a U.S. Supreme Court justice, and a missed opportunity

Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s latest nominee for the bench, graduated from a Catholic high school. So did four of the current Justices.

To read through the court filings is to be plunged back anew into the dizzying chaos of those last few weeks before the 2016 election.

In Alabama, an elected official imposed the death penalty after a jury asked for life in prison. Why did the highest court in the land refuse to hear this case—and address an insidious problem in the justice system?

Unsigned, unexplained orders have reshaped American law.

Liberty does not have to mean what the Supreme Court thinks it means.

Pro-choice advocates shouldn’t get their hopes up after the Supreme Court put a Louisiana statute on hold.

They believe that right-wing speech should be sacrosanct, and liberal speech officially disfavored.