Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told a group of lawyers and judges on Thursday that "the state of our democracy" ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court issued an order July 3 "clarifying" that Judge Brian Murphy couldn't enforce an order it had stayed.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments yesterday in ... courts are divided over what the word means in a statute aimed at reducing mass incarceration through an array of criminal justice reforms.

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.

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

The Supreme Court is letting stand a lower court's ruling barring Florida from enforcing a contentious immigration law that ...