More than before, progressives working to protect people’s rights will need state supreme courts to be hospitable to lawsuits ...

After Republicans secured the 218 votes needed for a majority in the House, Donald Trump has Republican majorities in all of ...

On Nov. 13, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal district court's ruling in Browder v. Gayle (1956) that segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional.

Supreme Court rejects youth climate lawsuit in a major setback for activists challenging federal energy policies as harmful ...

Since Donald Trump's election win, a feminist movement is sweeping the US in which women refuse to marry, have children, date ...

An attorney representing a conservate prosecutor is struggling to convince Wisconsin's liberal-leaning Supreme Court to reactivate the state's 175-year-old abortion ban ...

Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer for Slate Magazine, talks with Alex Wagner about how Chief Justice John Roberts came to ...

After his election victory, President-elect Trump could appoint more conservative justices to the Supreme Court. There are ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is the first Hispanic justice and at 70, is not the oldest member of the Supreme Court.

Pundits and partisans are speculating about how Trump’s victory could affect the court’s composition. Here are a few ...

Donald Trump got immunity in more ways than one. In exchange, Republicans got more influence over the federal judiciary.

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