The US Supreme Court heard argument on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from Cornell University and its employees over dismissal of a class action ...

The first week of President Donald Trump’s second term was an uncertain one for abortion opponents. He pardoned a group of protesters convicted of violating the FACE Act, which protects access to ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Jan. 13, 2025, in Stanley v. City of Sanford (No. 23-997), which addresses whether former ...

Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart decided not “to define the kinds of material” that would constitute “hard-core” pornography. Instead, he famously wrote, “I know it when I see it.” Sixty years ...

There are catchy phrases for legal non-doctrines that explain seeming anomalies in precedent. “Bad-man-stays-in-jail” ...

US President Donald Trump is trying to end birthright citizenship, the legal principle that automatically makes anyone born within the US or its territories a citizen. However, a federal judge in ...

In 1968, the Supreme Court upheld a law that made it a crime to sell pornographic magazines to young people. But in 2004, the court struck down a federal law intended to protect kids from online ...

Justice Samuel Alito wanted to know. It would have been a strange thing for him to ask, had he not posed the question at Wednesday’s hearing over a Texas law requiring age verification to access ...

Most Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical that free speech online is “imperiled” by a Texas law requiring porn websites to verify ages.

who cheered it as a "vindication" for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who dissented from the rest of the court in late 2023 in a case involving content regulation that included a post by the ...

While Biden tactfully communicated a fundamental truth and core party principle that’s been often overlooked, many felt that Biden delivering the message in the last gasps of his presidency was ...