Before she became a Supreme Court justice, the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s work as an attorney in the 1970s changed the court’s approach to women’s rights and how we think about women – and men.
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Senators followed a playbook familiar to millions of women. In promoting men, companies and other organizations have frequently brushed aside allegations of sexual assault and harassment.
Contentious or politically driven Supreme Court nominations are not new. But US history shows that many of those contested nominees who were confirmed would go on to author controversial opinions.
What exactly do we mean by teenage behavior? And who gets to be this kind of teenager?
The Masterpiece Cakeshop case in the Supreme Court was not just a showdown over gay rights and religious liberty. It also reveals an ongoing process of redefining US suburban life as more diverse.
More than two dozen states and cities are suing over a controversial new citizenship question.
Kavanaugh thinks judges ‘must be an umpire – a neutral and impartial arbiter.’ So does Chief Justice Roberts. But more liberal jurists believe that the application of the law is inherently subjective.
A law professor writes “the future of Roe v. Wade looks tenuous.” That gives more power to the states – including four that have passed “trigger laws” to outlaw abortion if Roe is overturned.
A battle over the Second Amendment is exactly the wrong way to think about the government’s role in the firearms industry.
A recent US Supreme Court ruling marks a new milestone in the debate over police power and privacy in the digital age.
Citizens United, issued 10 years ago, is one of the most controversial and scorned rulings in modern Supreme Court history. Is that condemnation undeserved?
Americans have rediscovered the Supreme Court, as they do periodically when it’s at the center of controversy. With a president who attacks the legitimacy of courts, will their attention be benign?
In 1987, Anthony Kennedy was nominated to end a titanic Supreme Court fight. Could his putative successor trigger another one?
The ban has major implications for thousands of would-be immigrants from all of the affected countries, except perhaps Venezuela.
Donald Trump’s pick for the highest court in America has Democrats furious, as well as some Republicans.
Controversial judicial appointments and divisive court rulings are not the norm everywhere. Here’s what the US could learn from Europe about ensuring ideological balance on the Supreme Court.
Democrats won the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections, but Republican presidents have appointed a majority of the sitting justices. Is the court out of step with America?
A legal scholar explains why Kennedy’s opinions on same-sex relationship rest on fragile constitutional grounds.
With Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, President Trump will appoint a second justice to the Supreme Court. Will his nominees be impartial if Trump ends up in the court because of the Russia probe?
Appointing judges to lifetime terms can be among a president’s longest lasting legacies. The overwhelming majority of Trump’s nominees are conservative, white and male.
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