Justice Clarence Thomas's decisive opinion in McDonald v. Chicago, which held that the Second Amendment limits the power of the states, was principled jurisprudence based clearly on the text of the Constitution.

Michael Greve argues in his new book that that a reorientation toward constitutional forms and arrangements will require a wholesale reformulation of conservative jurisprudence.

In the second edition of "Women's Figures," author Diana Furchtgott-Roth shatters the myth of the wage gap, alleging that women are continuing to gain ground relative to men. Preferential policies towards women are undermining America's notion of meritocracy and are actually calling into question the value of women's earned achievements.

History will regard many of the interventions of the Rehnquist Court as reflecting less of a predetermined substantive agenda and more of a structural approach to constitutional adjudication.

The decisions of the present Court appear to reflect less of a fidelity to an agenda or a desired outcome than they do to the textual and structural dictates of the Constitution.

A university is more than the sum of its ethnic parts. It is comprised of individuals — black, white, Hispanic, Asian and others — who should be admitted or rejected without their race or ethnic heritage making any difference.

This month, Obama administration officials revealed plans to dramatically reduce embassy staff in Baghdad, the largest U.S. diplomatic mission abroad. Along with the announcement in December of the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq — the message President Obama is sending is clear: The sooner we put Iraq...

The imposition of the punishment of execution for certain heinous crimes has been a matter of intense controversy in the United States and especially in its legal system. Although the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty for over thirty years, battles over its application in particular...