Governor Bob Ferguson appointed civil rights attorney Colleen Melody to the Washington State Supreme Court, succeeding ...

Jinnah's preference for a federal court with narrow, constitution-specific jurisdiction was born out of political necessity, not constitutional philosophy.

Qualified immunity, with no legislative basis, helps censorious "desk-bound bureaucrats" more than police in split-second ...

Air Force Staff Sergeant Cameron Beck's widow lost her wrongful death case against the government due to a decades-old ...

In seven weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases involving challenges to the constitutionality of laws in Idaho and West Virginia ...

BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Suspends Ruling on ‘Racially Gerrymandered’ Map, GOP Could Gain 5 Seats. Chaos ensues as Dec.

The Supreme Court did not act on Monday on the challenges to President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20  executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship – the guarantee of citizenship to […] ...

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In its petition for review, the Trump administration is arguing that the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause was “adopted to ...

In a dissent Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court's longstanding bar against tort suits from members of the ...

“To put it plainly, courts ‘call balls and strikes’; they don’t get a turn at bat,” the court wrote in a per curiam ruling — ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said in a dissent that the Court should revisit a doctrine decided 75 years ago.