Both gun-rights advocates and educational equity activists use similar legal strategies. Why does the Supreme Court treat them so differently?

Whatever conservative ethos of restraint there once was has vanished.

Liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins with conservatives Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas to urge the court to take up a drug-sentencing case.

More than 80 years ago, the Court decided that it didn’t need to settle whole cases, but could limit its review to specific questions it liked.

Whatever its merits, the methodology could not have existed until modern times.

Adding more justices to the bench might be the only way to stop them.

Former Solicitor General Paul Clement may get the Supreme Court closer to killing what’s left of campaign-finance limits.

Like Barack Obama, the chief justice came into office promising an age of apolitical comity. And like the president, he has seen his dream die.