The Latest Breaking News from Antonin Scalia

Judges sometimes add prison time for crimes defendants were accused of — even if juries found them innocent. And the Supreme Court has turned down numerous appeals asking it to declare that the Constitution forbids it.

The liberal justice seems ready to fight legal conservatives on their own ground.

Ignoring the nation’s epidemic of mass shootings, in June 2022, by a 6-3 margin along ideological lines, the Supreme Court struck down a New York law that required anyone seeking a license to carry a concealed handgun outside the home to demonstrate a specific justification for the permit. Under the…

"Integralists" battle "national conservatives" over religion, capitalism and the far-right conquest of America

Four of the five Supreme Court justices who overturned the constitutional right to abortion showed up at the conservative Federalist Society’s black-tie dinner marking its 40th anniversary

WASHINGTON — Consider the following scenario: Following a contentious midterm election, the House gathers on the first day of the new Congress to organize itself. With an unpopular Democrat in the White House, the party appears to have lost its House majority. But something’s amiss.

Things could get “pretty messy” with challenges swirling after the midterm elections, legal experts say. Are lawmakers ready?

Sackett v EPA – an attack on the Clean Water Act – is by no means the only threat to climate policy before the court

The president says the Court is no longer ‘evenhanded’

Conservative jurisprudence on guns has fallen far and fallen fast into the gaping maw of Second Amendment absolutism.

It didn’t take long for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to find her voice on the U.S. Supreme Court.