The court affirmed a lower court’s ruling that North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.
Nearly 30 years after a carefully constructed all-White jury convicted him of murder, a Black man living on death row will now get a new trial. Justice Clarence Thomas would rather that he didn’t.
Nebraska v. Parker stemmed from a federal case in which the town of Pender, Nebraska, and several of its liquor stores sued the Omaha Tribe over an alcohol tax ordinance.
As the Supreme Court prepares to take on a slate of big, history-shaping cases, the most weighty question is which justices will–or won’t–get to decide the outcome. Victor Goode explains the ethics fight that’s not going away any time soon.