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Partisan Gerrymandering Returns to a Transformed Supreme Court
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s departure may have doomed efforts to impose constitutional limits on voting maps warped by politics.
An Intimate Portrait of Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court
“First: Sandra Day O’Connor,” by Evan Thomas, is a richly detailed life of the pathbreaking justice.
Why Paying Bribes to Get Your Child Into College Is a Crime
The “right of honest services” turns paying a university employee to admit an unqualified student into a federal crime because it violates honest services owed…
The Court and the Cross
How far is the Supreme Court willing to open the public square to more overtly religious expression? A pending case may tell us.
New York City Could Be About to Become Much More Dangerous
Cases like one on the Supreme Court docket this term often lead to more injuries and deaths.
The Democratic Candidates Should Tell Us Now Who They’ll Put on the Supreme Court
And they should choose nominees who will help dismantle mass incarceration.
Hip-Hop Artists Give the Supreme Court a Primer on Rap Music
The stars, including Chance the Rapper and Meek Mill, urged the court to hear the First Amendment case of a rapper imprisoned for threatening police…
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case on Church Repairs Using Tax Money
The New Jersey Supreme Court had stopped payments to churches, saying the State Constitution barred them.
Precedent, Meet Clarence Thomas. You May Not Get Along.
Justice Thomas has written more than 250 opinions scrutinizing precedents, calling for their reconsideration or suggesting that they be overruled.
The Supreme Court and Religious Favoritism
The case of a 40-foot cross in Maryland offers the justices a chance to clarify the constitutionality of religious displays.