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A recent ruling from the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is the latest example of how a landmark law can be stealthily eroded.
The chaos in Congress stems from its own arcane rules — rules it could easily change if it could just get its act together.
Trump is unlikely to be the last sitting president to try to overturn the people’s vote.
The Supreme Court’s conservative justices have made it pretty clear that using race as a factor in hiring decisions isn’t a practice they’ll condone.
Another decades-long conservative goal has been met — and decades of precedent overturned.
Much hinges on whether the former president, and current Republican front-runner, is tried and convicted before or after his election.
Unless the justices hold the line somewhere, we are headed for an era of intense public debate about what religious beliefs may or must be funded in schools.
The Constitution distinguishes between harmful speech and harmful products like cigarettes and alcohol.
Intent is fundamental to the criminal law because it’s fundamental to our sense of right and wrong.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the abortion decision, written by Justice Samuel Alito and joined by four other conservatives, is one of the worst decisions in the court’s history.
In an important church-and-state decision, the justices have effectively ended the centuries-old constitutional ban on direct state aid to the teaching of religion.
Its enduring symbolism won’t be that of helping people but of alienating the court and its new swing justice.
A conservative Supreme Court justice invokes a liberal colleague to argue that New York Times v. Sullivan is wrong for the social-media age.
The tale of a presidential coverup is familiar - and troubling.