Supreme Court of the United States

A politically polarizing court is not inevitable. In some European countries, the judicial appointment process is actually designed to ensure the court’s ideological balance, and justices work together to render consensus-based decisions.

Justices on Wednesday raised a series of questions that led many to suggest they did not see a coalition of enough judges to overturn President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

The nine justices heard about an hour of arguments in Republican-governed Ohio’s appeal of a lower court ruling that found the policy violated a 1993 federal law aimed at making it easier for Americans to register to vote.

A new study of Supreme Court opinions says one thing is clear: Justices are far more negative in their decisions today than they’ve been throughout the entire history of the court. But that may not necessarily be a bad thing.

The US government has always tried to maintain strict neutrality when it comes to the question of who controls Jerusalem. But a 12-year-old boy and his family are suing to have “Jerusalem, Israel” listed as his birthplace on his passport, sending the case to a Supreme Court with no foreign policy experience.