Speaking Saturday night to an audience at the University of Chicago Law School, superfly liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg indulged in a little judicial pessimism when she suggested that the Roe v. Wade rule by her Supreme Court predecessors was too broad, and, rather than safeguarding abortion rights for future…

In his essay for New York Magazine, Supreme Court's head hater Antonin Scalia writes about growing up in New York City. Of course, he takes this benign topic, and uses it to make a dumb statement about the bright side of sexism.

Everyone knows someone who is gay, and today's Supreme Court hearing on Proposition 8 will impact everyone, not least of all Chief Justice John Roberts, whose lesbian cousin is attending the hearing with her partner of four years.

Folks are gathering outside of the Supreme Court this morning as the justices hear arguments about the definition of marriage. For live updates, try here, here and here. And check out the Supreme Court's site.

In a world divided by conflict and difference, it's beautiful to see that people from different cultures, and countries across the world can share something in common: really fucked up ideas about rape.

The most esteemed Iowa circle jerk all-male Iowa Supreme Court ruled 7-0 on Friday that a dentist was totally within his legal rights when he fired his female assistant because he and his wife all held hands and decided that the woman was a threat to their marriage. In other words, a female employee in Iowa was fired…

As if we needed more reasons to bite off all our nails at the prospect of the Supreme Court taking on Prop. 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act early next year: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia got more than a tad defensive regarding some of his legal writings about homosexuality while speaking at Princeton…

The Supreme Court will decide once and for all* whether gays and lesbians can get married in California and whether the federal government can effectively discriminate against same-sex couples by denying them benefits.

Are you one of the millions of people who watched the gay marriage victories in the recent election and felt momentarily buoyed by the thought that the rest of the country might not be a sea of frothy ultra-conservative player-haters?

Today, the Supreme Court is hearing a case that may have implications for workers' future ability to sue their employers' for on-the-job sexual harassment. At issue is what constitutes a "supervisor" in the workplace — and it's more complicated than you might think.