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JURIST Contributing Editor William G. Ross of the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University discusses Justice Ruth B. Ginsburg's open public opinion concerning Trumps' candidacy for presidency... Since justices during recent years have been increasingly uninhibited about making extrajudicial...

JURIST Guest Columnists Donnie W. Bethel and Stephen A. Cooper discuss how recent Supreme Court's decision related to the Hobbs Act only serves to further take up space and resources in the federal prisons... People of all persuasions, political parties...

US Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland on Tuesday provided Congress with a questionnaire detailing his judicial qualifications. This was the most thorough record of judicial qualifications submitted for a Supreme Court nominee, with the questionnaire...

Texas urged the Supreme Court on Monday to alllow it's voter ID laws to remain in effect while under review by a federal appeals court. The Court is considering a plea by a group...

JURIST Guest Columnist Kaimipono Wenger of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, discusses the rise of anti-LGBT bills in a number of conservative states and opposite reactions to these bills and the fundamental question: do LGBT rights create burdens on religion,...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday released a 4-4 opinion in the case Hawkins v. Community Bank of Raymore . The case addresses the role of spouses as guarantors in credit applications. In...

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the...

JURIST Guest Columnist Amaury A. Reyes-Torres, of Ibero-American University, discusses the recent Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage in the US... The Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS") issued its anticipated opinion on Obergefell v. Hodges . Regardless of...

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday upheld a 75-year-long policy prohibiting individuals, corporations or firms working under federal contracts from contributing to the campaigns of federal candidates, parties...

JURIST Guest Columnist Amaury A. Reyes-Torres, of Iberoamerican University in the Dominican Republic, discusses the constitutional questions the US Supreme Court justices are facing when deciding same sex marriage cases ... The case for equal marriage is the case of...