U.S. Constitution

President Donald Trump didn't get what he wanted in some of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year. The list includes tariffs, birthright citizenship and the attempted firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook. But he also emerged from the term with even greater power. However, the 1964 decision in an Alabama legal case that helped define freedom of the press and defamation in the U.S. went unchallenged.

An Alabama inmate on death row, whose death sentence led to discussions about the Constitutional right of religious freedom, will be executed on Thursday, July 18 by lethal injection. Keith Gavin is Muslim. He’s sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of a delivery driver.

A recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are legally protected children is highlighting how support for the idea that a fetus should have the same rights as a person underpins far less dramatic laws and proposals from abortion foes across the U.S.

Three states have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block the addition of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Alabama, Louisiana and…