In Chiafalo, the Supreme Court averted electoral chaos. This November, it may need do so again.

Congress now has a roadmap that it can follow when it wants to obtain documents from the public at large, as well as the executive branch.

Morrissey-Berru is a reassuring nod toward the continuity of a principle long rooted in the American tradition of church-state separation.

Stare decisis, it seems, is in the eye of the beholder.

This is not an argument that a presidential firing is necessarily the only way for this issue to be decided, but only that there was no reason to reach out to decide a constitutional issue when the parties did not disagree and when principles of constitutional avoidance pushed in the opposite direction.

Many conservative commentators have agreed with Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who called the decision “a historic victory.” It was a victory for those who would like government to support religious education, but it was not nearly as historic as it could have been.

With this case, the Court’s discomfort with directly confronting race and racial animus was on full display.

If the Justices cannot agree on the meaning of “because of sex” in a statute enacted or amended in their lifetimes, then it is difficult to conclude that textualism can resolve legal disputes.

The Supreme Court took up a brainteaser of statutory construction involving the jurisdictional boundaries between the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service.