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The 5-to-4 ruling, issued in the middle of the night, provided a rare glimpse of the inner working of a court bitterly divided on the…

The economist N. Gregory Mankiw says he loves the central bank but fears for its future as one of America’s great institutions.

Will the court be able to avoid mirroring the country’s polarization?

Mandatory vaccination is rare, but it has been done — and upheld by the courts. While judges have allowed health officials to fine citizens for…

Prosecutors may not find it easy to convince a jury that a former Minneapolis officer committed a crime when he fatally shot an Australian woman…

Following California’s moratorium on executions, Democrats running for president embraced abolition, signaling a generational shift for the party.

An academic is worried that a strict gun law in New York City is being challenged in the Supreme Court.

In a 5-to-4 decision, the justices ruled against an inmate with a rare medical condition and debated the ground rules for capital punishment.

One juror in the 1993 case suggested that sentencing Charles Rhines to life in prison surrounded by other men would “be sending him where he…

The Supreme Court has weighed in on affirmative action several times. Here are some key cases through the decades.