Legal precedents hold that criminalizing someone for their status, such as being homeless, is cruel and unusual punishment. But what if that status leads to actions like sleeping in public spaces?
A group of fired Starbucks employees celebrate the result of a vote to unionize a Memphis shop on June 7, 2022.
AP Photo/Adrian Sainz
The case stems from a complaint filed after seven baristas who were attempting to organize a union at a Starbucks shop in Memphis, Tennessee, were fired.
Election workers scrutinize ballots carefully, but courts may decide how closely they look.
Aimee Dilger/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
What counts as fast for a court is slow for the rest of the world, and judges can give contradictory or vague rulings that delay final decisions into the future.
Juries render decisions on complex legal questions and could do the same as part of the regulatory process.
image Source, via Getty Images
People love to hate bureaucracy, but regulatory agencies play key roles in modern society. Conservatives want to cut back their power, but a political scientist proposes a different option.
Donald Trump’s Supreme Court brief characterizes historic cases and documents as saying one thing when they say the complete opposite.
erhui1979/Digital Vision Vectors/Getty Images
Donald Trump claims support in crucial court cases and historical documents for his assertion that presidents are immune from criminal prosecution. A law scholar says those documents say the opposite.
The U.S. sports card industry is an estimated $12 billion market.
Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images
Fanatics’ consolidation of the sports card industry risks a stagnant future for the hobby.
Pro-abortion rights activists rally in front of the Supreme Court on March 26, 2024, the day justices heard oral arguments about the use of mifepristone.
Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images
When the US Supreme Court legalized sports betting, states were quick to get in on the action. But as lawmakers grow reliant on taxes from betting, what do they owe problem gamblers?
A Catholic schoolroom in the U.S. around 1930.
Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
In 1922, Oregon voters approved an initiative to require public school for most students ages 8-16 − but it didn’t hold up in court.
A protester marks the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision anniversary outside the Supreme Court building on June 23, 2023.
Associated Press/Nathan Howard
March Madness might look very different if not for the Supreme Court.
A Texas National Guard soldier watches over a group of migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Dec. 18, 2023.
John Moore/Getty Images
The Supreme Court announced that Texas can have state authorities arrest and deport undocumented migrants. A lower court has temporarily blocked the law.
Clouds float over the Supreme Court building on March 15, 2024.
Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images
These cases have asked the justices to consider how to apply some of the most sweeping constitutional protections – those of free speech – to an extremely complex online communication environment.
‘We did win this election,’ said then-President Donald Trump at the White House early on Nov. 4, 2020, on what was still election night.
Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election results. But the work of others, from lawmakers to judges to regular citizens, stopped him. There are cautionary lessons in that for the 2024 election.
Corporate diversity efforts have resulted in more women and minorities sitting on boards.
Getty Images
Since the 1970s, corporate boards have included more women and minorities. But those gains are likely to change after a US Supreme Court ruling and increased conservative resistance.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during a meeting in the Oval Office on May 13, 2019, in Washington, D.C.
Mark Wilson/Getty Images
One of Donald Trump’s favorite politicians is the Hungarian authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán. Would a country led again by Trump embrace similar antidemocratic politics?
A 1935 painting depicts the 1787 meeting that adopted the U.S. Constitution.
John H. Froehlich via Wikimedia Commons
Experts explain the context behind the Supreme Court’s ruling on Donald Trump’s eligibility to appear on presidential ballots.
Best picture nominee ‘Past Lives’ was directed by South Korean-Canadian filmmaker Celine Song and has scenes in Korean and English.
A24/Everett Collection
Non-English language cinema – previously seen by niche audiences – is increasingly finding acceptance and recognition, reflecting the many demographic changes taking place within the academy.
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media following his appearance at the District Court in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 9, 2024.
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images
In a case that will make legal and political history, the US Supreme Court will consider whether Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for his alleged effort to undermine the 2020 election.