The Missouri senator's attack on the Supreme Court nominee elides crucial distinctions and ignores widespread judicial criticism of child pornography sentences.
Although a Texas Supreme Court ruling ended the main challenge to the law, other cases could ultimately block its enforcement.
Opponents of this dangerous law have a variety of options left to pursue in state and federal courts, despite their recent defeat in the Texas Supreme Court.
"This is very bad for property rights."
Does her position on Harvard University's Board of Overseers require or counsel her recusal once she is confirmed?
The experience in Texas shows that workarounds pose daunting obstacles to such laws.
forthcoming in the Supreme Court Review
New York's residence restrictions for sex offenders raise the question of how irrational a policy must be to fail "rational basis" review.
A Supreme Court ruling restoring Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capital sentence and a congressional logjam makes it clear that only he can keep his campaign promise.
In a statement respecting the denial of certiorari, Justice Thomas suggested some courts are adopting an overly expansive interpretation of the immunity conferred by Section 230.
In Wooden v. United States, the justices were unanimous in the judgment, but expressed disagreement over the role of statutory history and the rule of lenity.
An interesting concurrence to one of today's Supreme Court decisions.
The broken foster system for Native American kids is finally up for Supreme Court scrutiny.
All of this is a transparent effort to stop lawsuits from those who have been tortured.
The justices heard oral arguments this week in Egbert v. Boule.
As Justice Breyer suggested last week, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron will be allowed to defend the state's controversial abortion law.
Justice Breyer delivers the opinion for the Court in a heavily fractured opinion in U.S. v. Zubaydah.
When bed-and-breakfast owner Robert Boule asked Border Patrol agents, who were questioning a guest, to leave his property, an agent pushed him to the ground.
"It's too bad that a heckler's veto prevailed here," says Ilya Shapiro.
At her confirmation hearing for her current position on the court of appeals, KBJ testified that "race would be the kind of thing that would be inappropriate to inject in my evaluation of a case."
The Supreme Court is considering what standard should apply to prescribers accused of violating the Controlled Substances Act.
President Biden's Supreme Court nominee was counsel of record for a Cato Institute brief in a case challenging the detention of alleged enemy combatants.
Patients suffer when physicians who prescribe opioids in good faith can face decades in prison.
At today's oral argument, the justices explored Section 111 of the Clean Air Act, the major questions doctrine, justiciability and the regulation of advertising for four-foot cigars smoked through hookahs.
The SCOTUS pick has shown admirable judgment in criminal justice cases.
News reports indicate President Biden has made his choice to replace Justice Stephen Breyer
In November, the Supreme Court declined to consider an ACLU petition arguing that the public has a First Amendment right to see the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's classified decisions.
The most important environmental case of the 2021-22 term will be heard next week.
A comment made by Justice Breyer at oral argument seems to indicate how the Court will decide Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center.
ABCNews unearths an interesting interview with Ketanji Brown Jackson about Justice Clarence Thomas
Will this follow-up to the famous wedding cake case finally decide if this is mandated speech violating the First Amendment?
"Think long and hard," Breyer warns would-be court packers, "before embodying those changes in law."
Why the arguments the Supreme Court lacks jurisdiction to hear the latest climate change case likely lack merit.
This approach would avoid many of the flaws of traditional racial preferences. But it has some downsides of its own.
The Institute for Justice offers a generally pessimistic appraisal of the situation under state law, but some optimism about prospects in the Supreme Court.
Civil libertarians have reason to be wary of Judge J. Michelle Childs.
Contrary to some of the more breathless reactions, it doesn't suggest a conspiracy to help Republicans win elections by disenfranchising black voters.
The Duke law professor posts an important and insightful article on this subject.
Supreme Court confirmation votes have become increasingly partisan. Will this create a problem in a 50-50 Senate?
A former clerk to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is accused of burnishing her Wiki bio, while sabotaging those of other contenders to replace Justice Breyer.
The Supreme Court will soon decide a case that tests the limits of expression on government property and religious toleration.
A unanimous panel rejects a Trump Administration change to rules on collective bargaining for government workers.
There are more productive things to argue about than identify politics.
The Solicitor General and NGO respondents argue that the petitioners lack appellate standing to challenge the D.C. Circuit's interpretation of the Section 111 of the Clean Air Act.
Michael and Chantell Sackett say they shouldn't have to spend years—and hundreds of thousands of dollars—just getting permission to build on their suburban lot.
More than 100 law professors agree that "academic freedom protects Shapiro's views."
Plus, Supreme Court nominations and affirmative action in schools
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