Neil Gorsuch

The conservative justice is on course for an originalist fight with Neil Gorsuch.

The Supreme Court’s Republican majority has been quietly rolling back a longstanding consensus over cruel and unusual punishment.

On the TransAm Trucking case, legal reasoning, and the Fugitive Slave Act.

If judges are going to use history as their guide, they should probably try to get the history right.

A revered Supreme Court ruling protected the robust debate vital to democracy—but made it harder to constrain misinformation. Can we do better?

Conservatives’ veneration for the founders opens the door for a secular vision for America’s public schools.

Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.

The theory has not provided the clarity some of its early proponents had hoped it would.

The Founders didn’t believe that broad delegations of legislative power violated the Constitution, but conservative originalists keep insisting otherwise.

The right has demonstrated that winning this kind of institutional fight takes years and requires a ruthless disposition.

As the new administration seeks to fill a vacancy on the Court, a look back at the forgotten mid-19th century battles over the judiciary.

William Rehnquist went from a lonely dissenter to an institutionalist chief—and his opinions are all the rage among the court’s current conservatives.

The Founders didn’t believe the Constitution had a fixed meaning. So why do so many of the justices?

Fifty years after ruling against a corrupt president, the Court has now decided that presidents are above the law.

Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News' coverage of claims that the company had rigged the 2020 election may soon become an artifact of a vanished era.

Among America's political elite, 5 living presidents, 2 Supreme Court justices, 11 governors, and 100 legislators have ancestors who enslaved Black people.

And historians aren't exactly helping in the Harvard case currently before the Supreme Court.

When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the future of affirmative action, I knew I had to be there.

A trio of American Samoan plaintiffs are asking the high court to end their status as second-class citizens.

The modern Republican Party has tied itself to Roe v. Wade. With the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs, the party is vulnerable to new issues.