The Supreme Court took more religious rights cases in recent years than it heard in the previous two decades. Is it eroding the wall between church and state?

Whatever its motivations, the 5th Circuit’s opinion has little to do with the reality of gun violence with which all ...

This week, the Trump administration doubled down in its fight against birthright citizenship. The usual alliance of pundits, professors and press lined up to declare any challenge to birthright ...

The case opens a new front in the battle between states that ban abortion and states that support providing abortion anywhere ...

A New York doctor was indicted Friday with prescribing a Louisiana girl pills that caused an abortion — seemingly the first ...

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans found a federal law that prohibits adults aged 18-20 from buying handguns violates the Second Amendment.

Can a charter school be religious? The Supreme Court decision about St. Isidore, a Catholic school in Oklahoma, could redraw ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on a case that will affect whether the FBI can be held accountable for accidentally ...

South Carolina's Marion Bowman Jr. is set to be the first person executed this year on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to hear his case.

President Trump’s torrent of executive actions has spurred a flood of legal challenges seeking to thwart the president’s efforts to reshape U.S. policy in his first days back in the White ...

For the second year, half of Supreme Court cases involve the federal government as respondents or petitioners, a novel trend ...