Johnny Doc played a pivotal role electing his brother to the Pa. Supreme Court. Ten years later, things are different.

Kevin Dougherty benefited from Local 98's help during his 2015 campaign. This year, labor is still spending big on the ...

Anthony Todd Boyd’s Final Words Before Alabama Execution

Alabama executed Anthony Todd Boyd, 54, with nitrogen gas for a 1993 murder on Thursday, after he used his final words to ...

Alabama executes Anthony Todd Boyd by nitrogen gas for 1993 murder and kidnapping

ATMORE — The State of Alabama carried out its fifth execution of 2025 Thursday evening, putting Anthony Todd Boyd to death by ...

What the Japanese Internment Case Teaches About Judicial Deference to Presidential Power

The basic facts of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1944 decision in Korematsu v. United States, which upheld President Franklin ...

What would late civil rights icon and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall say about the current court?

Harvard Law Professor Mark Tushnet, who once clerked for Marshall and chronicled his career in two books, reflects on how ...
Opinion

The GOP’s decadeslong project to dismantle the Voting Rights Act is nearly realized

Gutting the civil rights law has been a long game, and its opponents have long found a champion in Chief Justice John Roberts.
Opinion

This Former Supreme Court Justice Is Trying to Salvage His Legacy. It’s Too Late.

Unlike Reagan’s other doomed picks, Robert Bork and Douglas H. Ginsburg, Kennedy’s nomination was controversy-free. He was widely seen as the “nice guy” alternative to Bork’s combative demeanor and ...

Meet the three Pa. Supreme Court justices up for retention on the November ballot

Three justices, Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty and David Wecht, will appear on Pa. voters’ ballots, where they will be ...