Will someone please explain to me how permitting gays and lesbians to marry threatens the institution of marriage?

“Iwouldn’t ask him to escort my daughter to her senior prom,” explained one of the jurors who in mid-November acquitted Robert Durst of murdering his quarrelsome neighbor, Morris Black.

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision in favor of gay marriage may have set off a political earthquake, but as a matter of law it was a no-brainer.

The tangled web that a narrow Supreme Court majority wove to shut down the Florida recount of presidential ballots in December 2000 made it possible for Republican George W.

A few hours after Miguel Estrada withdrew his name for a judgeship on the Court of Appeals for the Washington, DC, Circuit, a leading Senate liberal was asked about the meaning of the two-year

The attacks of September 11, 2001, ushered in a multitude of legal transformations that restrict civil liberties in the name of national security.

With the Bush Administration continuing to fill the federal courts with right-wing judges, liberals have turned with renewed vigor to a strategy that not only allows them to defeat individual n

Few of George W. Bush’s judicial nominees have generated as much opposition as has Miguel Estrada.

“Ask for a lawyer immediately upon your arrest,” reads the little informational card the ACLU hands out to citizens.

When I was in college, I joined a court-watching project in Roxbury, Massachusetts. We observed criminal trials, then interviewed judges, lawyers and witnesses.