Eric Segall

If they’d boycotted the hearings to begin with, fine. But they’re going to lose this one—and there are even more important fights ahead.

Scalia was no originalist, but a politician all the way down, one willing to replace the decisions of more accountable government officials with his own decisions.

The hand-wringers are wrong—an evenly split Supreme Court would end a narrow majority imposing its out-of-step will and would be good for the country.

Justices publicly wail about their dissenting colleagues’ violations of the Founders’ principles. Yet it’s their own views that decide the majority of cases.

Here’s why gun-reform advocates should welcome a Supreme Court challenge to a recent ruling on the number of firearms an American can register in a month.

While much progress has been made in the world in terms of equal rights for women, most major religions still place women in a lesser role, and people aren’t doing much about it.

The power struggle between Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy might have more say in this summer’s same-sex marriage vote than you think.

The justices would have you believe their choices were limited by prior law, but that is simply false. On issues of race, religion, politics, and technology, the court made decisions that will seriously affect how Americans define themselves as a country and which reflect the justices’ overall value systems much more than their legal perspectives.

The NRA isn’t just blocking new gun laws—it’s going after laws elected representatives have already passed. Judges are being tempted to intervene, but they should stay as far away as possible.

Should a New York town board start sessions with Christian prayers? That’s what the court will hear this week—and the right ruling is clear despite varying judicial decisions on prayer.