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Charlie Neibergall / AP What Does Chuck Grassley Fear?
Democrats are trying to pressure the Iowa senator to confirm Obama’s choice for the U.S. Supreme Court, but that strategy shows little sign of success so far.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Senate Is Unmoved
Despite some world-class spin from the White House, Merrick Garland’s confirmation isn’t going anywhere.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What If the Supreme Court Were Liberal?
With a possible Merrick Garland confirmation and the prospect of another Democrat in the Oval Office, the left can’t help but dream about an ideal judicial docket: abortion rights, voting rights, campaign finance...
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Scott Applewhite / AP How a Challenge to Legislative Redistricting Backfired
Advocates pushed for rules that would shift power toward older, white, more conservative areas—but they overreached, and the U.S. Supreme Court turned them down.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Strange Career of Free Exercise
America is experiencing a revolution in religious-freedom law—transforming the rights of individual conscience into a bulwark of secular wealth and ecclesiastical power.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters One Person, One Vote, Eight Justices
The constitutional maxim does not require states to use eligible voters when drawing legislative districts, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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Ricardo Arduengo / AP Testing Territorial Limits
A crop of court cases could change the relationship between the United States and its territories.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Supreme Court's Plea for Health Insurance Help
The justices are split—and desperate to find a solution that works for religious nonprofits and the government in a battle over birth control.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters A Puzzling Order in a U.S. Supreme Court Case on Obamacare
The justices pose a hypothetical in Zubik v. Burwell, one of the most-watched cases of the term.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Court's Close Call on Unions
Ignoring precedent—and forgetting the desire to appear non-partisan—set the stage for the destruction of public-sector unions.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What's at Stake in Selecting Justice Scalia's Replacement?
The fight over the open seat on the U.S. Supreme Court isn’t just a partisan struggle—it revolves around the very meaning of the Constitution.
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Drew Angerer / Getty When Regulation Is Bad—Except for Abortion
Regulatory laws based on phony health claims erode economic liberty. But some free-market conservatives have a double standard for abortion.
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Mark Wilson / Getty Women's Health Takes a Backseat to Religion Again
The U.S. Supreme Court took up the battle between birth-control coverage and religious freedom once more.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty What Would Scalia Do?
The late justice would want Merrick Garland to have a fair hearing before the Senate—because that’s the original meaning of the Constitution.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Dick Heller Transformed Gun-Rights Law—and He's Not Finished
His Supreme Court case paved the way for hundreds of guns-rights lawsuits in America—but in Washington, D.C., he’s still waging war.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Nomination of Merrick Garland Is a Victory for Judicial Restraint
The appellate judge enforces rights enumerated in the Constitution while deferring to legislatures and elected officials when the Constitution doesn’t speak clearly.
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Nati Harnik / AP Ben Sasse's Lonely Stand Against Trump
He’s called the billionaire a "megalomaniac strongman" and vows not to support him—even if he's the GOP nominee.
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Rick Bowmer / AP How Did the Oklahoma City Bombing Shape Merrick Garland?
President Obama’s new Supreme Court nominee called his work on the case “the most important thing I have ever done in my life.”
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Edge: Senate Republicans to Obama: Still No
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Mark Wilson / Getty Merrick Garland Is a Great Pick; That May Not Matter
Obama’s Supreme Court nominee is the least political, most conciliatory choice. Whether that’s strategy or naïveté, confirmation is still unlikely.
