Harvard Law professor Charles Fried claimed he believed that the Republican Party was in the process of a slow-motion coup d'état.

We have the tools to deal with this impending calamity of COVID-19 in Massachusetts prisons. We only need the political will.

The debate about whether Supreme Court justices are bound by ethics rules drew attention away from the fact that Clarence Thomas’s conduct violated federal laws.

Caitlin Bernard of Indiana is named on an extreme anti-abortion website linked to Amy Coney Barrett

There is a way to intervene.

“It just doesn’t seem very pro-life to us,” they said.

The science on which Roe v. Wade was based has not changed. What has changed is the court’s membership and their originalist interpretation of the Constitution.

Not all of Donald Trump’s judicial appointees fit the pattern, nor do they behave as Trump appointees in every case, but there are clear patterns.

Recent Ivy League dramas have made women leaders in academia wonder how far they’ve really come.

Our service on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court changed our minds about the need to counter the dubious legitimacy of recent appointments.

Since U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland "is unwilling to step up," and prosecute former President Donald Trump and his cronies, Free Speech for People says "it is time for him to step down."

But what if their big and fast moves, eviscerating some constitutional rights and inflating others, are bound for collision?

The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

He has intervened in the proceedings regularly and most often against the prosecution.

Fool for a client.

The reported behavior of some justices is not a matter of politics or judicial philosophy. It’s about ethics.

The justices’ cavalier treatment of the laws on the books makes it even more clear that broader regulation is needed.

The new Sentencing Commission should do more than tinker with the Guidelines - reducing this or that level, adding this or that policy statements. It should start from scratch. The Guidelines that...

For a potential second term, the former President is devising the greatest reshaping of the federal bureaucracy in recent American history. Would the changes stand up to legal scrutiny?

With Barrett, as with Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, the administration has ceded — no, outsourced — the nominating process to the Federalist Society.

Maureen Britell was due to give birth to a child with no chance of survival or capacity for consciousness.

Maureen Britell was due to give birth to a child with no chance of survival or capacity for consciousness.

What better time to issue the decision than the day the Republican National Convention started its convention, allowing the GOP to crow about Trump-appointed judges who delivered for him.

We got used to treating people as categories, not human beings.

From the 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival Opening Ceremony.Nancy Gertner is a Senior Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School.Find out more at www.aspenideas.org

The prosecutors brought the case and won it. All that remains is for Judge Sullivan to decide what sentence to impose on Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty twice.

Devastatingly hard as it is, we must go where she did and stay with the fight, winning for however long it takes.

Stripping away wholesale respect for precedent in many areas and at breakneck speed raises profound questions.

We were hoping Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would hold out through November. After serving twenty-seven years on the nation’s highest court, she passed away on September 18. She was eighty-seven. A...

A look back at the mostly unfortunate achievements of the Supreme Court’s recent term.

David Sabatini says his name is being dragged through the mud, while one young scientist says that while “she never consented, he had his way.”

Polls show Americans' trust in the Supreme Court has never been lower, especially in light of ethical lapses that lead observers to question the impartiality...

Democratic Representative Ted Lieu joked that he would sue Fox News based on Dershowitz' interpretation of the lawsuit.

Readers respond to the issue of compassionate release.