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The Supreme Court adjourns for the Term with decisions about redistricting, air pollution, and executions. Burt Likko...
constitutional law
The legal writing in Obergefell v. Hodges is both a model and a caution for future writers,...
Chief Justice Roberts was nearly silent during oral argument, and then wrote the 6-3 majority opinion in...
What happens when a fraternal organization, dedicated to commemorating Confederate veterans of the U.S. Civil War, declares...
The calendar has become short -- and heavy.
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When a Supreme Court Justice calls an entire city a "delicate subject," there's pretty much only one...
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This one is going to be a squeaker.
Wednesday, the Supreme Court will entertain the latest challenge to Obamacare. If you can make it all...
One of Burt Likko's greatest hits, offered in celebration of #judicialreviewday.
Turns out, a Muslim prisoner has a right to grow a beard even if the warden doesn't...
Burt Likko thought he understood this six years ago: religion is religion, and business is business. But...
Same cast, brand new season! Burt Likko offers a look at some of the high points of...
Burt Likko wonders whether, despite the unmitigated human rights awfulness that is the nascent would-be state forming...
James Hanley finds unintended humor in an old Supreme Court ruling.
Burt Likko thinks that Citizens United and McCutcheon were correctly decided. But how can he square that...
The Ordinary Court's majority moves on to the final issue left in the case, and issues its...
Tim Kowal agrees the Greens have individual standing, but suggests the corporation is the appropriate party to...
In Part III of the Ordinary Court's treatment of the Hobby Lobby case, the Ordinary Justices' voting...
Part II of the opinion, dealing substantively with whether Hobby Lobby can state a claim for relief...
The first part of the Ordinary Court's treatment of one of this year's most-publicized legal cases. To...
