It is the most demanding form of judicial review. If it applies, Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy is probably doomed. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington Much of Tuesday’s argument over ...

When it comes to statutes curbing access to lawful sexual content—material that’s neither obscene nor child pornographic—the US Supreme Court sometimes bends its normal First Amendment rules of review ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments in Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton on Wednesday, a major First Amendment case that serves as good barometer for your hierarchy of fears about American life ...

Kansas lawmakers are considering a constitutional amendment to explicitly apply strict scrutiny to gun rights, even though a recent court ruling suggests it already applies. The proposed amendment ...

The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas as it again prepares to apply the constitutional standard known as “strict scrutiny” to racial preferences in college ...

Should online pornographers get better treatment in court than brick-and-mortar adult venues? That’s a key question the Supreme Court faces in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton—and the answer should be ...

“They always say sunlight is the best disinfectant. So, it will allow transparency as well as accountability,” says Matthew Charles, a former federal prisoner and current senior policy adviser with ...

Tuesday’s Sixth Circuit decision in OPAWL—Building AAPI Feminist Leadership v. Yost offers a welcome example of how constitutional originalism can be the antidote to muddled case law. In a per curiam ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Texas, by way of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, is before the Supreme Court on a conservative culture-war issue. This case centers on a Texas law that ...

For three decades, America ran a radical experiment: What if the government only lightly regulated the most powerful communication medium ever invented? In the foundational Supreme Court cases of the ...

I recently explained how the decision is patently narrow, applying only to age-verification mandates targeting access to sexual content that, in Justice Clarence Thomas’s words for the majority, “the ...