A cottage industry of academics and entrepreneurs wants to convince Supreme Court justices that partisan gerrymandering has gone too far.
Author: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY
Six trials for same murders: Supreme Court frowns on racial jury selection tactics of Mississippi prosecutor
After six trials for the same crime, Curtis Flowers from Mississippi reached the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of winning another chance.
Justice Clarence Thomas breaks three-year silence in Mississippi case about racial bias in jury selection
The Supreme Court’s senior justice, who seldom speaks during oral argument, broke a three-year silence to ask questions in a race discrimination case.
Divided Supreme Court makes it easier to detain noncitizens with criminal records
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a victory by making it easier to detain noncitizens with criminal records.
‘Obama judges?’ ‘Trump judges?’ Border emergency lawsuits could expose or defuse partisan differences
The judges who will hear legal challenges to President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency run the political gamut from left to right.
Trump’s conservative judges begin takeover of federal appeals courts
President Trump’s signature achievement since taking office – making the federal courts more conservative– crossed a major threshold Tuesday.
Supreme Court strikes blow against states that raise revenue by hefty fines, forfeitures
The Supreme Court ruled that state and local governments cannot impose excessive court fees, fines and forfeitures as a means of raising money.
Supreme Court blocks Louisiana abortion restrictions, handing anti-abortion movement a temporary setback
A divided Supreme Court halted abortion restrictions in Louisiana until the justices decide if the law varies from a Texas law they blocked in 2016.
Supreme Court’s conservatives appear poised to expand Second Amendment gun rights
An obscure New York City restriction on gun owners may give the Supreme Court reason to expand Second Amendment rights more broadly.
George H.W. Bush left both a liberal and conservative legacy at the Supreme Court
Historians who try to define President George H.W. Bush’s legacy would do better than to judge him by his choices for the Supreme Court.