After adding seven new cases to their merits docket on Friday, the justices issued additional orders from last week’s conference. They did not add any more new cases to their docket, but they did deny review in a high-profile case in which they had been...
An analysis of data from the 50 largest U.S. police departments shows that police shoot Americans more than twice as often as previously known, VICE reports. Officers in these departments shoot black people at a higher rate and shoot unarmed people far more often than...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks at St. Francis College in New York in February. (Kathy Willens/AP) During last week’s Supreme Court oral argument in Christie v. NCAA, an important federalism case, Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted a dangerous feature of our legal system. We have...
We are better off reviving natural rights as a useful explanation for some of our constitutional virtues, but to counteract the crisis of modernity we need to explore other explanations of our Constitution....
In a rural California classroom, more than a dozen 5- and 6-year-olds huddled in the corner as a gunman sprayed bullets and tried to break his way in. The doors were locked and all children were inside, part of a plan the staff and students...
A small pipe bomb went off near New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal on Monday, and the suspect was immediately taken into custody, the New York Daily News reports. The blast went off in an underground subway passage just 200 feet from the terminal...