This article was published in partnership with Slate. During their summer vacations, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Neil Gorsuch did what all Supreme Court justices do every few years when the Court is in ...

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The conservative legal movement has invested billions of dollars into transforming the federal judiciary into a vehicle to implement the pet policies of the far right. Americans are now tasting the ...

Last week, the state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a St. Louis journalist. No physical evidence connected Williams to the crime of which he was ...

The Supreme Court will soon hear a case about a federal effort to regulate ghost guns, which are making America's gun ...

Last year, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond did something prosecutors rarely do: He admitted a prosecutor’s office was wrong. Faced with abundant evidence that Oklahoma had sentenced Richard ...

On Monday afternoon at Duke Law School, a BigLaw partner named Kannon Shanmugam offered an impassioned defense of the Supreme Court, an institution whose approval rating has spent the last several ...

The pernicious myth that Chief Justice John Roberts is a moderate conservative may finally be put to rest. Over the weekend, the Times reported that behind the scenes, Roberts quickly took hardline ...

In July, the Supreme Court ruled along party lines that presidents are “absolutely immune from criminal prosecution” for acts that are within their “exclusive constitutional power.” The six Republican ...

Conservative state and local officials, who never miss an opportunity to punch down at vulnerable people, are working to suppress speech, expression, and association by passing laws and regulations ...

Of the hundreds of billions of dollars in venture capital funds raised by American companies in recent years, less than one percent of that money has been allocated to businesses owned by Black women.