Society / With his majority opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor, Alito gave bigoted parents a big, fat kiss—and changed the nature ...

An attorney told Newsweek the decision will not lead to future similar "slippery slopes." Opponents say it could unravel the ...

Justice Samuel Alito said the Supreme Court ignored Congress's intention in its ruling on retroactive relief under the First ...

Justice Alito slammed the board for reneging on a policy that would have allowed parents to opt their children out of ...

While not definitive, the decision signals the justices’ inclination to see religious parents succeed in their two-year legal ...

Justice Samuel Alito said the Supreme Court's ruling requires judges to engage in "mind-bending exercises" in a dissent.

Under the First Step Act, certain first-time offenders became eligible for leniency in pending cases. But what should happen ...

A group of Maryland parents who sued a school board over its refusal to allow elementary school children to be taken out of ...

The justices who signed on to this decision should be ashamed of themselves, and some of them should know better.

The case involved a school district in Virginia, where right-wing parents were abusing the “opt-out” system meant to allow ...

Even in the desensitized landscape of death-penalty cases, the justice’s opinion in Gutierrez manages to stun.