With a new presumption against eleventh-hour challenges, the Supreme Court is routinely clearing the way for executions to proceed even while colorable objections remain unresolved.

ORDER (HARDIMAN, KRAUSE, RESTREPO, BIBAS, PORTER, MATEY, PHIPPS, FREEMAN, MONTGOMERY-REEVES, CHUNG, MASCOTT, SMITH and FISHER*, Circuit Judges) The petition for rehearing filed by Appellant, United St...

Monday's 5-4 decision is a foreboding omen of the rancor yet to come.

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Rachel A. Shelden is associate professor of history and director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State University. A leading scholar of nineteenth-century America, Shelden is a member of the Historians Council on the Constitution at the Brennan Center for Justice.

The only provision from the original Bill of Rights that was never adopted would've grown the House in proportion to the country. We should revisit it.

The only provision from the original Bill of Rights that was never adopted would've grown the House in proportion to the country. We should revisit it.