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Given the breathtaking sweep of the Supreme Court's decisions in the final days of its term, it's easy to overlook a decision that had no sweep at all because it [...]

Byline: Linda Greenhouse The nine members of the Supreme Court peered over a precipice. A disagreeable choice loomed before them. They could apply their two-year-old gun-rights precedent, as a lower [...]

A self-described documentary filmmaker, trolling a gala dinner for a gotcha moment by engaging Supreme Court justices in conversation and surreptitiously recording their words, arguably scored with Justice Samuel Alito [...]

There has hardly ever been as fierce a defender of free speech as the current Supreme Court. Since John Roberts became chief justice almost 19 years ago, the court has [...]

Byline: Linda Greenhouse The Supreme Court is hurting. I can say that with confidence - not based on any inside information but on the external evidence of how hard some [...]

The Supreme Court is hurting. I can say that with confidence -- not based on any inside information but on the external evidence of how hard some of the justices [...]

I never thought I'd be grateful to the Alabama Supreme Court for anything, but now I am. With its decision deeming frozen embryos to be children under state law, that [...]

Most people know by now about the border war between Texas and the United States playing out along the banks of the Rio Grande. Less obvious but no less consequential [...]

Byline: Linda Greenhouse Much of the country no doubt watched in amazement last week as a woman with a doomed pregnancy was forced to flee her home state, Texas, to [...]

A few years before she left the Supreme Court in 2006, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor explained the relationship between courts and the public. As she saw it, courts were ''mainly [...]

During a crucial period in American law -- when abortion, affirmative action, sex discrimination and voting rights were on the docket -- she was the most powerful woman in the [...]

During a crucial period in American law — when abortion, affirmative action, sex discrimination and voting rights were on the docket — she was the most powerful woman in the [...]

Ever since the Supreme Court agreed in June to hear the government's appeal of a particularly noxious Second Amendment ruling, I had been curious to see which ''friends of the [...]

Ever since the Supreme Court agreed in June to hear the government’s appeal of a particularly noxious Second Amendment ruling, I had been curious to see which “friends of the [...]

The end of a Supreme Court term always sparks a lively conversation about how to characterize what just happened, and this year was no exception. In refusing to weaken the [...]

Byline: Linda Greenhouse Because Jehovah's Witnesses believe that saluting the flag or reciting the Pledge of Allegiance amounts to worshiping secular authority, they prohibit their school-age children from engaging in [...]

Because Jehovah's Witnesses believe that saluting the flag or reciting the Pledge of Allegiance amounts to worshiping secular authority, they prohibit their school-age children from engaging in the practice. In [...]

Tylenol, the familiar brand name for acetaminophen, is known to cause liver damage when taken in doses that exceed the recommended daily maximum. The Food and Drug Administration, which approved [...]

How much further will the Supreme Court go to assist in the arming of America? That has been the question since last June, when the court ruled that New York's [...]

Federal civil rights law requires employers to accommodate their employees' religious needs unless the request would impose ''undue hardship on the conduct of the employer's business.'' Congress didn't bother to [...]