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Daffodils bloom in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington earlier this month.

Commentary: Pay attention, the Supreme Court is talking about abortion

April 23, 2020 at 6:03 p.m.

It was easy to miss in the middle of our COVID-19 madness, but this week the Supreme Court issued its most interesting decision of its current term so far. At...

Noah Feldman: Presidential pardons have been a bad idea since 1787

February 20, 2020 at 12:10 p.m.

The president of the United States isn't a king, and he isn't above the law -- or so constitutional law professors like me keep reminding everybody. But the painful truth...

Attorney General William Barr appears at a Senate appropriations subcommittee meeting April 10, 2019, in Washington.

Trump and Barr vs. Congress can only end in a stalemate

May 31, 2019 at 4:19 p.m.

The brewing conflict between the House Judiciary Committee and Attorney General William Barr — over whether he will testify this week as scheduled, and under what ground rules — is...

Revamping the Senate is pure fantasy

June 7, 2019 at 4:32 a.m.

As the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh made its painful way through the Senate, a number of liberals began to make an important discovery: The U.S. Senate is undemocratic. Small...

Justice Hugo Black, fourth from left, leaves a ship in 1937 in Norfolk, Va., surrounded by newspapermen with whom he declined to discuss his Ku Klux Klan membership. Black served on a court decidedly lacking in courtesy or judiciousness.

Bad temperament alone shouldn’t sink Kavanaugh

May 31, 2019 at 4:18 p.m.

The temperament question has come to the heated debate about the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The basic idea is that by raising his voice during the final part of...

Ousted FBI director James Comey is sworn in during a hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC., June 7, 2017.

Justice Department to Comey: You sinned

May 31, 2019 at 4:23 p.m.

Blame Comey. That's the main takeaway of the much-awaited Justice Department inspector general's report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The report faulted former FBI Director James Comey both for...

People rally outside the Supreme Court on Jan. 10, 2018, in opposition to Ohio's voter roll purges in Washington. The court on June 11 upheld Ohio'??s method of removing people from voter rolls.

The Supreme Court’s naked politics

May 31, 2019 at 4:20 p.m.

In a 5-4 decision along party lines, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld an Ohio law that lets the state kick people off the voter rolls if they don’t...

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather for an official group portrait to include new Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, top row, far right, on June 1, 2017, at the Supreme Court Building in Washington.

What a more conservative Supreme Court looks like

May 31, 2019 at 4:17 p.m.

Wondering what will happen if Justice Anthony Kennedy retires and President Donald Trump gets to pick his successor? The U.S. Supreme Court last week gave a good preview of that...

Michigan Blue Cross case shows how class-action system works (and doesn’t)

June 11, 2018 at 10:02 p.m.

Class-action lawsuits are necessary as a way to police corporations — but there's always a chance that they'll be settled in an effort to keep a company's dirty laundry from...

Copies of ballot papers and campaign posters for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party lie on the ground in Tel Aviv early on March 18, 2015, after the country's parliamentary elections.

Israel’s voters refused to budge — now what?

May 11, 2019 at 2:15 a.m.

By definitively re-electing Benjamin Netanyahu, Israelis refused to go left and refused to go right. This was what Netanyahu expected when he called for early elections — and having just...

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