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Contributor Lyle Denniston looks at how the core meaning of the Eighth Amendment’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment”…
In a unanimous ruling on Tuesday, the Supreme Court overturned an Indiana Supreme Court decision that said that part of federal…
On February 13, 1689, Parliament in London allowed two new monarchs to take the throne if they honor the rights of English…
Is there a situation where some rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights don’t apply at a state level? A new case at the Supreme…
While still insisting that state governments do not have to follow exactly all of the medical community's standards for defining…
Constitution Daily Supreme Court correspondent Lyle Denniston reports on Tuesday's arguments about a death penalty case involving…
On Monday, the Supreme Court turned aside a plea to require jurors to satisfy the toughest legal test before they may vote to…
Reading a Supreme Court ruling of last January in a widely expansive way, a divided Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down…
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court added three cases to its docket for the Court’s next term. Two of the newly granted cases…
Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s constitutional literacy adviser, says a death penalty case accepted by the…
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