Last year, Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond did something prosecutors rarely do: He admitted a prosecutor’s office was wrong. Faced with abundant evidence that Oklahoma had sentenced Richard ...

The Supreme Court will soon hear a case about a federal effort to regulate ghost guns, which are making America's gun ...

On Monday afternoon at Duke Law School, a BigLaw partner named Kannon Shanmugam offered an impassioned defense of the Supreme Court, an institution whose approval rating has spent the last several ...

The pernicious myth that Chief Justice John Roberts is a moderate conservative may finally be put to rest. Over the weekend, the Times reported that behind the scenes, Roberts quickly took hardline ...

Conservative state and local officials, who never miss an opportunity to punch down at vulnerable people, are working to suppress speech, expression, and association by passing laws and regulations ...

The right to a gun in the United States keeps getting bigger. In 2008, the Supreme Court invented an individual right to keep unsecured guns in the home, untethered to the Second Amendment’s language ...

n July, the Supreme Court ruled along party lines that presidents are “absolutely immune from criminal prosecution” for acts that are within their “exclusive constitutional power.” The six Republican ...

Leonard Leo, the longtime Federalist Society vice president who played a key role in the Supreme Court confirmations of all six Republican justices, is probably the most influential conservative ...

There are more than 200 industrial chemical plants in the 85-mile stretch of land between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. These facilities constantly pump pollutants into the surrounding ...

Legal and political elites have spent years entertaining the fantasy that Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, the conservative activist Ginni Thomas, have separate political lives. In 2022, she told ...