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A new proposal would threaten waterways and drinking-water supplies.

Will the conservative majority deliver on Trump’s promise to overturn Roe v. Wade?

Three conservative said the court was wrong to duck cases with “some tenuous connection to a politically fraught issue.”

For 150 years, the justices have sat, not always happily, for an extraordinary series of group portraits

Richard Brookhiser’s “John Marshall” looks at the accomplishments of the legendary chief justice and draws lessons for today.

The threat from President Trump and Republicans to take health care away — including a pending case that would strike down a large part of…

But the justices seemed reluctant to overrule precedents that sometimes allow defendants to be prosecuted twice for the same crimes.

Anita Hill reflects on testimonies 27 years apart before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and what it would really take to remedy sexual harassment.

George H.W. Bush was by turns conciliatory and confrontational. The combative approach put Clarence Thomas on the court.

In Times v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court ruled that public officials had to show not just that a story was inaccurate and hurt their reputation,…