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Trump Wants to Weaken Clean-Water Rules

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

Reading Tea Leaves on Abortion Rights

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

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Planned Parenthood Cases, and 3 Court Conservatives Aren’t Happy

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

The Stories Behind the Supreme Court’s Class Photos

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

The Man Who Made the Supreme Court Supreme

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

The Ticking Time Bomb Under Obamacare

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

Supreme Court’s Double Jeopardy Case May Have Implications for Trump Associates

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

‘Clearly the Tide Has Not Turned’: A Q&A With Anita Hill

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

How to Fill a Supreme Court Vacancy

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

How a Times Court Decision Revolutionized Libel Law

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,…