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Trump cuts Supreme Court contenders to ‘about five.’ Is Colorado’s Eid...

After Anthony Scalia died unexpectedly in 2016, and after Republicans successfully thwarted Barack Obama’s nominee for the seat, Donald Trump tapped Neil Gorsuch, a...

Littwin: Justice Kennedy retires and now we wonder whether Roe v....

You can mark this date on your calendar. A calamity is now upon us. Justice Anthony Kennedy, the last conservative on a 5-4 Supreme Court...

Littwin: Supreme Court boldly decides the Masterpiece cake case by not...

So this is how it ends for the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, in which a Lakewood baker refused to make a wedding cake for a...

Littwin: If tolerance is the issue in the Masterpiece case, how...

A man and a woman walk into a bakery and ask the baker to make them a wedding cake. The baker asks the couple if...

Wiretap: Biden looms, Bernie fundraises, and Clinton’s getting nervous

Nervous ask Joe Biden is making the Clinton campaign nervous. The Clinton campaign responds by pressuring nervous Democratic donors. Via The New York Times. Keeping up Speaking of...

Court victory for marriage equality

Same-sex couples now have the right to marry in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Friday that the Constitution guarantees marriage equality, regardless of state-level...

Littwin: Arguments still seem to fall one way on Supreme Court...

I'm sure the experts are right that the Supreme Court same-sex marriage decision is a toss-up, and that it was hard to tell, after...

Colorado eyes High Court for news on gay marriage

DENVER -- The U.S. Supreme Court today is hearing arguments in a case that will push the most-recent chapter in the breakneck story of...

Deja vu all over again on prolonged prison isolation

In the 1820s, the American penal system sought to end mutilating, amputating and putting convicts to death by housing them alone in isolation cells....