Supreme Court Justices

In its ruling, the Court brushed away our nation's history of mass shootings, assassinations, and unparalleled gun violence and accepted an abstract academic argument with dangerous real-world results.

After the Court's ruling that Guantanamo detainees are now entitled to habeas corpus, all the president's men are working overtime so they can stack the deck strongly in favor of winning convictions.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has done his part to make sure that, at least in the U.S., the future for his gun industry friends and their lobbying pals is a little bit brighter.

June 26, 2003: The Supreme Court issued one of its most important rulings in the area of individual rights and human dignity, but the constitutional protection of the essential human dignity of gay men and lesbians is hanging by a slender thread.

This week, John McCain gave a speech for the ages - the Dark Ages. He offered up the Right's boilerplate complaints about activist judges -- ignoring the fact that the majority of federal judges are GOP appointees, as are 7 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices. Or maybe he was having another McCain moment. Across the aisle, while Hillary's chances of winning teetered between none and "What are you smoking?" Obama played it cool, allowing Hillary the space to face the inevitable with dignity and on her own terms -- the political equivalent of "it isn't you, it's me." (BTW: Happy Mother's Day to all HuffPost mothers!)

John McCain's statement on the role of judges might very well qualify as one of the most ignorant statements ever made by a presidential candidate.

WASHINGTON — States can require voters to produce photo identification, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, upholding a Republican-inspired law that...

By evading their duty to enforce the Constitution in a meaningful manner, judicial passivists betray a central feature of our constitutional system.

Apparently, the Equal Protection Clause, is to be used for only two purposes -- to invalidate affirmative action and to invalidate the recount process in the 2000 presidential election.

In my view, "Conservative activism" is the least principled and least justified approach of judicial conservatives. Unfortunately, it is also the prevalent form on the Supreme Court today.