Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas have passed laws requiring the posters in public schools. Several other states are considering similar measures.

Plea bargains. Bench trials. Pleading the Fifth. Law students—and anyone who has seen Law and Order—will recognize these as familiar features of the US criminal justice system. But, as Emma Kaufman ...

Lawmakers faced warnings of ‘arbitrary power’ as they reshaped the courts, but recent polling suggests public opposition to the new 3-judge constitutional court is limited ...

An Arkansas law requiring that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in public school classrooms has been struck down ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Central Florida businesses are hoping for the best after Friday’s decision from the high court and what it means for their bottom lines moving forward. Take Cybertron Videogames in ...

Students walking into Steve Griffith’s highly sought first-period class at Lincoln High School expecting dry texts and dusty minutiae were in for a surprise. Gesturing to the famous legal minds they’d ...

A sense of urgency filled the second floor of the Duke Law School on the morning of Feb. 6., where the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy was hosting its annual symposium. Aptly ...

The Texas governor says the Supreme Court supports his stance that the right to free speech is not absolute for students. Gov. Greg Abbott emphasized that students cannot simply walk out of school to ...

In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. On a Depression-era dinner table sat a can of milk that wasn’t quite milk. It ...

A proposal in a 1987 law review article could address a gap that makes it all but impossible to sue federal officials for violating the Constitution. By Adam Liptak Adam Liptak writes The Docket, a ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “The federal government is attempting to bend the state’s will to its own—and that is ...