The Supreme Court on Monday left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted ...

While Justice Jackson has yet to explain the exact meaning of her Inauguration collar, the cowrie shell’s multiple meanings ...

The shells are often viewed as currency. However, they hold a deeper meaning, especially when worn during the inaugural ...

The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In 1974, the Supreme Court ruled t ...

While all eyes were on President Donald Trump during his second inauguration, the country’s first Black female Supreme Court Justice caught the eye of Black America with one statement piece that ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court chose not to review a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime voting ban on individuals convicted of certain felonies. Created in 1890, the ban disenfranchises people even after ...

While she has been photographed on the bench in a variety of statement-making jabots, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's collar for President Trump's swearing-in ceremony sent a particularly powerful ...

The Honorable Ketanji Brown Jackson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, will be the featured guest ...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made waves at the 2025 presidential inauguration, not just for her position as the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court but for the powerful ...

over a dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson that was joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Mississippi’s list of disqualifying crimes was “adopted for an illicit discriminatory purpose ...