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The justices are hearing arguments in a lawsuit filed by Louisiana, Missouri and others accusing administration officials of leaning on social media...
The former president faces 91 criminal charges in four prosecutions.
The court will consider “whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct...
Several justices questioned aspects of laws adopted by Republican-dominated legislatures and signed by Republican governors in Florida and Texas in...
Donald Trump is saying he is immune from prosecution on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Only Justice Sonia Sotomayor sounded like she might vote to uphold the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that Trump “engaged in insurrection.”
The military academy was explicitly left out of the court’s decision in June that ended affirmative action almost everywhere in college...
Gorsuch and Kavanaugh seem skeptical of the crucial "Chevron doctrine" unanimously decided 40 years ago, which vastly empowers federal agencies.
Lawyers for the fishermen are asking the justices to overturn a 40-year-old decision.
The court will consider for the first time a provision of the 14th Amendment that bars people who “engaged in insurrection” from public office.
Harking back to his analogy of judges to baseball umpires, the Chief Justice compared tech's impact on the courts to advances in refereeing tennis.
The justices turned down special counsel Jack Smith's request in a single-sentence order. As is customary, the court gave no explanation.
After two hours of arguments, there seemed to be a consensus that "there is room for some narrow ground” to decide the case, as Justice Neil Gorsuch...
The justices seemed by turns reluctant to break up an exhaustively negotiated agreement, but also leery of somehow rewarding the Sacklers.
Senate Democrats, meanwhile, have asked Justice Samuel Alito to step aside because of a potential conflict of interest, which he rejected outright.
The issue for the justices is whether the legal shield that bankruptcy provides can be extended to people such as the Sacklers, who have not declared...
O'Connor came to define the voice of moderate conservatism on the court, once saying: “Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to...
A majority of the nine-member court suggested that the accused should have the right to have their cases heard in federal court, instead of by the...
The policy, agreed to by all nine justices, does not appear to impose any significant new requirements and leaves compliance entirely to each justice.
The justices repeatedly invoked the phrase as they questioned whether the government was justified in denying the trademark.
Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo organized and funded undisclosed private travel for conservative Supreme Court justices.
A friend of Thomas who made the loan, forgave the debt after nine years of what he called interest-only payments, says the report by Senate Democrats.
The Moores are the public face of a high court case backed by business and conservative political interests that could call into question other parts...
“There really was no reason for the court to take it on, other than to send a signal to warn off the Congress from passing a billionaire tax."
The incident, which the court still fails to acknowledge publicly, took place in the tense spring of 2022, as the justices were overturning Roe v....
Three years ago, the court ruled that the CFPB's director could be replaced by the president at will, after Donald Trump sacked its chief.
Backers of the laws want to prevent platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and X from censoring users based on their viewpoints.
Federal courts nationwide disagree about the wording of the bipartisan 2018 criminal justice overhaul. One appellate panel calls it “perplexing.”