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Justice O’Connor loved being a politician and, in a way, never stopped being one.

Sandra Day OConnor was called "the most powerful woman in America" during her quarter of a century as a Supreme Court justice.

When the Supreme Court introduced a written code of ethics for itself last week, it took a small but helpful step in the direction of democracy renovation. But a bolder

Paula Jones lawsuit against President Clinton set a legal precedent for a $10 million case against Trump

In 1994 the president of Grapeland High's senior class committed a brutal, senseless murder. Now he's on death row, waiting for the courts to decide his fate.

Nearly two decades after the Exxon Valdez ran around on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, the U.S. Supreme Court has taught Exxon (now ExxonMobil) and corporations everywhere a lesson: Don't pay off legal judgments. Stall, stall, stall for 19 years. Courts have held that Exxon must pay $2.5 billion in punitive damages for spilling…

By Andy Kroll, Andrea Bernstein and Ilya Marritz | - ( ProPublica ) - The party guests who arrived on …

This article was originally published at ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ decadeslong…

The Federalist Society uses billionaire funds and right-wing ideology to remake the law.

The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.