The only Alabama federal judge appointed by a Democrat in decades ruled Monday that a lawsuit challenging the state’s ...

This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything.

The US Supreme Court’s unanimity in early decisions will be hard to maintain as the justices decide controversial questions on presidential immunity, abortion, and the so-called administrative state.

In the criminal case Pulsifer v. United States, conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch’s dissent was joined by liberal Justices ...

She is surely not the only progressive with second thoughts: The legal left’s embrace of originalism was a major influential development in the 12 years between Kagan’s and Jackson’s elevation to the ...

During her confirmation hearing in 2022, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson introduced herself to Congress as an originalist. This surprising move from a presumptively liberal justice signified to many the ...

As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has pointed out on more than one occasion, the use of history itself to erase history is now ...

The U.S. Supreme Court last month added another case to the line of Nollan / Dolan / Koontz decisions considering the limits imposed by the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause on local government ability ...

Before I was officially a University of Iowa student, I was a Daily Iowan reporter. I made the choice to stay in Iowa City for four more years after graduating from high school a few miles away, based ...

No, don’t rush the Trump J6 case When the Supreme Court said it would hear Donald Trump’s immunity claim in the Jan. 6 case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith, the former president’s ...