Speaking at a legal conference, the Obama-appointed justice was the latest member of the Supreme Court to decry threats to ...

A report arguing for raising taxes on alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages, a law requiring labels to disclose if an animal was harmed ...

In an unsigned order with no explanation, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority blocked lower-court orders that had stopped President Donald Trump from shuttering the Department of Education.

Former Chief Justice John Marshall’s quote, “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is,” is a cornerstone of the doctrine of judicial review, ...

Washington moved to close a dangerous loophole. Now there’s a constitutional showdown pitting religious freedoms against the ...

A California bill would allow educational institutions to give preference to applicants who are descendants of slaves while ...

Constitutional conversations about the Supreme Court often begin with Alexander Hamilton’s famous description of the judiciary in Federalist No. 78 as the “least dangerous branch,” precisely because ...

In a democracy, no public official should hold unchecked power for life—especially not those tasked with interpreting the ...

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed April 7, 2022 as the first Black female U.S. Supreme Court justice. She’s pictured ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissenting opinions have provoked criticism for their casual and even disdainful tone. She’s called colleagues “hubristic and senseless” and added sarcastic asides.

Jackson’s judicial philosophy mirrors that of then-Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, who described his ...

In an unsigned order with no explanation, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority blocked the lower court orders that had ...