WASHINGTON —When the Supreme Court upheld the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the justices said next to nothing about racial equality, the ideal that drove the landmark law's enactment. Instead, the court ...

Jack Goldsmith's and my article with this title is now out in the Texas Law Review, as is David Post's response (many thanks for writing that, David!). Many of our readers are already familiar with it ...

The Trump administration is hunting for state laws that drag down the US economy. But axing statutes it sees as problematic will depend on how it wields the Constitution's powerful Commerce Clause.

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews High Court specialist Ilya Shapiro. Evan Golub/Zuma Press Photo: Evan Golub/Zuma Press The Supreme Court is doing an originalist cleanup job on decades ...

The argument, while plausible enough, strikes me as misguided and deeply flawed, on a number of important dimensions. The legal rule for which they advocate amounts to a declaration that Internet ...

The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. The Constitution constrains ...

With the cannabis industry growing rapidly and an increasing number of states legalizing the federally outlawed drug, out-of-state market participants are trying to strike down certain aspects of ...

Lawyers hoping for more clarity on Pennsylvania's consent by registration statute are going to have to wait. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declined, for now, to address questions the U.S. high ...

Now that The New York Times pay wall is live, you only get 20 free clicks a month. For those worried about hitting their limit, we're taking a look through the paper each morning to find the stories ...

An initial date set for barring pharmacy benefit managers from owning pharmacies in the state of Arkansas has been met with a screeching halt after a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on ...