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In the Trump era, sorting fact from fiction can be a challenge. With the administration's bogus census claims, the nation's top jurist was on the case.

The Supreme Court decided that complaints of partisan gerrymandering — including allegations brought in Maryland — should not be resolved by federal courts.

The U.S. Supreme Court is forbidding President Donald Trump's administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, for now.

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal courts are not the appropriate venue to resolve allegations of partisan gerrymandering.

By Luke Broadwater

Jun 27, 2019

The Supreme Court's decision in redistricting cases out of Maryland and North Carolina removes any obstacles to outright partisan gerrymandering.

The Supreme Court is giving Adnan Syed’s attorney another month to appeal the refusal by Maryland’s highest court to grant a new trial to the "Serial" subject.

By Colin Campbell

Jun 20, 2019

Edgewood High graduate Chase Lotharp, inspired by his teachers, plans to become an educator himself and hopes to serve the next generation of Harford students.

By David Anderson

May 28, 2019

There’s been a lot of commentary about whether Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax — a 2 percent annual levy on a person’s net worth between $50 million and $1 billion, and 3 percent on net worth above $1 billion — would be constitutional. Here's why it isn't.

Chief Justice John Roberts is now the court conservative closest to the center and the focus of the arguments for reining in partisan redistricting, including a case from Maryland.

The judiciary in too many cases appears to have become independent of the Constitution, says Cal Thomas.

Of the many obscenities President Trump has uttered on television, none compares with his hour-long Thanksgiving Day telephone conversation with his military leaders. He arrogantly used it to peddle his personal political agenda, including his latest attack on the nation's judiciary.

Collins says she'll stand up for women's reproductive rights - except it's clear she won't.

Take it from Chief Justice John Roberts, nobody has a right to entry into the United States.

The Supreme Court is resolving partisan redistricting cases from Wisconsin and Maryland without ruling on the broader issue of whether electoral maps can give an unfair advantage to a political party.

By Jeff Barker

Jun 18, 2018

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a Maryland redistricting case that has the potential to reshape how congressional boundaries are drawn nationwide.

By John Fritze

Mar 28, 2018

President Donald Trump called the Supreme Court's decision to partially reinstate his travel ban a "clear victory," but there's nothing clear about it.

The Supreme Court decision to raise the bar for special education was generally hailed as a victory for students with disabilities. But don't believe it. Under the de minimis standard, there was almost nowhere to go but up, and the court went up only a very little. An 8-0 vote by a court that is usually sharply divided is a sign that the decision may lack clarity or bite.

In his scolding of chief justice for politicizing the Supreme Court, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman gets just about everything wrong

A case involving a Maryland-based order of nuns appeared to divide the Supreme Court on Wednesday as attorneys argued the Obama administration overstepped its authority by requiring faith-based employers to facilitate health insurance coverage for contraception.

By John Fritze

Mar 23, 2016

The arc of the moral universe took a sharp bend toward justice in the last month, says David Horsey.

The political process, not the Supreme Court, should decide whether the country sanctions same-sex marriage.

Recent political developments appear to have given the president a second wind, says Jules Witcover.

Court's choice to toss EPA power plant rules leaves Americans at greater risk of birth defects and other ills

The Supreme Court sides with the people, not the powerful. For once.

The Supreme Court's decisive 6-3 vote confirming the right of all Americans to federally supported health-care insurance should end the Republican Party's losing war on Obamacare — but it probably won't.

By Jules Witcover

Jun 29, 2015

Matt Gibbons, 58, of Union Bridge, shed tears of joy when he heard the U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming the right to same-sex marriage Friday morning.

The Supreme Court has upheld the nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, in a ruling that preserves health insurance for millions of Americans.

The Supreme Court declared Monday the Constitution gives the president, not Congress, the lead role in setting the nation's foreign policy, including the "exclusive power" to recognize foreign governments and negotiate sensitive disputes.

Justice Kennedy turns a debate about four words in the ACA into a constitutional question.

The U.S. has become home to so much intellectual backwardness and ideological rigidity, says Leonard Pitts Jr.

Only time will tell if the change ends up being accepted by the people who put Glassman in office, but such acceptance would have been more likely had the process of making the change been presented as a proposal rather than an order.

Our view: Violent speech on the Internet isn't automatically protected just because its author claims artistic expression

Attorneys for two convicted robbers are challenging investigators' use of cellphone data, saying that it breached their privacy and that investigators should have used a search warrant to get it. Their appeals in federal court thrust the convicts into the center of a debate about police powers and the meaning of privacy in the digital age.

Republicans may hate Obamacare, but it's still the law of the land and the president is obliged to enforce it

Those seeking an abortion or other medical treatment in Maryland have some protection from protesters despite Supreme Court ruling

Supreme Court made a mistake and so have Carroll County commissioners with prayer choice

Four candidates for governor — one Democrat and three Republicans — have opted to publicly finance their campaigns. But we can and must do more.

While the Supreme Court decision in the Michigan affirmative action case was regrettable, there is still much colleges can do to boost diversity