A sharply divided Supreme Court declined Tuesday to halt the execution of a death row inmate in Louisiana who argued that the ...

He was a militant liberal, often railing against the “religious hicks” who lived in his rural Pennsylvania hometown (we went to boarding school, and he was there on a scholarship). He was ...

However, Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative, joined with the court’s three liberals in dissenting from the decision. Gorsuch, among the court’s most outspoken defenders of religious rights ...