Americans of color may have significantly more challenges to overcome with employment, education, health and housing than most white...

The intersection of money and politics, both at the fringes and at the center of our democracy, has often led to full-blown scandal....

The Court heard arguments yesterday in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, a sort of sequel to the 2010 Citizens United case that...

I did not realize until recently, while researching more deeply O’Connor’s history-making 1981 appointment as the first woman nominated...

Having already conceded that passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act would cause his Democratic Party to lose the south for a generation – a...

As to whether her being gay might impact cousin John’s reading of the complicated California ban on same sex marriage, Podrasky told the...

Roberts: The Chief Makes History There will be days and days of analysis – some of it even important – of today’s historic Supreme Court...

Corporations Really Are People While the nation holds its collective breath over the fate of Obamacare (hint, it’s going down) the...

There is an old and respected approach to judicial review of controversial and essentially political issues that holds that judges should...

Two years ago in his State of the Union address, Barack Obama called out the Supreme Court of the United States for its ruling in the...

If Mitt Romney wins the Florida primary Tuesday, as now seems likely, the media scrum following his every move will no doubt credit his...

The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a case that has it all for we separation of powers fans. The briefing in the...

Elections and the Court When the Obama Justice Department announced last week that it had asked the United States Supreme Court for an...

Thomas and Fortas, Separated Only By Time In a completely fascinating piece in the current New Yorker, Supreme Court watcher Jeffrey...

Thomas and Fortas, Separated Only By Time In a completely fascinating piece in the current New Yorker, Supreme Court watcher Jeffrey...

I once heard Sherman Alexie, a gifted writer who also happens to be Native American, have some fun at the expense of those who maintain...

As the first anniversary of the controversial national health care reform legislation – or more correctly health insurance reform...

Tomorrow night – October 5 – I’ll be talking about some of the most significant history of the Supreme Court at the Library at Cole and...

The news that the longest serving member of Congress in the nation’s history, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, had died got me to thinking...

We are soon to witness the latest chapter in the by now completely predictable theatre that passes for a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing...