by JASON M. SZANYI and KATARINA GUTTMANNOVA
This past term, in Ricci v. DeStefano,[1] the Supreme Court reshaped employment discrimination litigation. In a decision that garnered significant notoriety both for its potential impact on the future …

by G. BEN COHEN, BIDISH SARMA, and ROBERT J. SMITH
When Charles Apprendi fired two .22 caliber gunshots into the home of the first African-American family to move into a previously all-white New Jersey neighborhood, he …

BY PRISCILLA J. SMITH
In Gonzales v. Carhart, the Court reversed course from Stenberg v. Carhart, a decision issued just seven years before and, in a 5-4 decision written by Justice Kennedy, upheld the “Partial-Birth Abortion …

BY DAVID SCHULTZ
Claims of voter fraud effect a partisan divide, with Republicans generally supporting voter ID laws and Democrats opposing them. The United States Supreme Court has heard argument in two photo ID cases, and …

BY JUSTIN FLORENCE
Whom can the United States legally hold as an “enemy combatant” at Guantanamo Bay? What actions must an individual take to be subject to detention for the remainder of the “war on terror”? …

BY CHRISTOPHER M. EGLESON
With its decision in Parker v. District of Columbia, the D.C. Circuit became the first federal appellate court ever to strike down a law under the Second Amendment, which guarantees “the right …