ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Welcome ...

Asked what a world without judicial independence would look like, Justice Clint Bolick offered an ominous answer. "It looks ...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson emerges as a strong voice on an unusually fractious U.S. Supreme Court. Dissenting — again — on ...

The Supreme Court’s third-country deportation ruling likely sealed Kilmar Abrego Garcia's fate before his criminal trial.

In a term marked by rulings limiting immigrants’ rights, the court sided with several other people harmed by the criminal justice system.

As the next term approaches, we’re unlikely to see any major changes in the Supreme Court’s stance on criminal justice issues. One case of interest is Pulsifier v. United States , in which the court ...

Only one Supreme Court Justice has ever been impeached. Here’s how the process works and what happened the only time it succeeded.

Supreme Court Upholds Individual Rights In 2 Key Criminal Justice Cases The court decided only the accused have a right to profess guilt or innocence, not a lawyer. And in the age of Zipcar, you ...

Two Supreme Court justices told a House subcommittee that the U.S. criminal-justice system is too harsh, locks up too many people for too long and does so at an ultimate cost to public safety.