Neil Gorsuch

The right to abortion has been both supported and contested throughout history.  When banned, abortions still occur, but legal restrictions make them less safe.

McGirt v. Oklahoma and the failure of denationalization.

For two centuries, America had kept questions of church and state at bay. The country is not ready for the ones to come.

Pauli Murray, the first Black woman to be ordained by the Episcopal Church, was an advocate for women’s rights and racial justice.

The author of new book explains the fraught and turbulent relationship between religion and government in the U.S.

The newly conservative court may target the decision that allows for a minimum wage.

The defeat of Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987 changed the way justices are confirmed today.

Supreme Court confirmation hearings feature senators talking a lot, and nominees nodding politely until they can leave.

A short history of a made-up constitutional doctrine that gives presidents too much power.

And why stopping the subsidies can help bring it back.

Without New York Times vs. Sullivan, freedom of speech and the press could be drastically truncated.

The Carter-Baker report was intended to strengthen Americans’ trust in the electoral process. It’s become a weapon for right-wing attacks on voting rights.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

Beyond packing schemes, we need to diminish the high court’s power.

The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.

Erasing the women of the founding era makes it harder to see women as leaders today.

William Barr’s long struggle against congressional oversight.

Amid continued standoffs between tribes and states over treaties signed before statehood was achieved, the ruling is a victory for Native rights.

It isn’t just about Supreme Court picks. The group’s impact on the law goes much deeper.

To understand Catholic overrepresentation on the U.S. Supreme Court, we must look to the history of American Catholic education.