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Byline: Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak Behind the scenes, the chief justice molded three momentous Jan. 6 and election cases that helped determine the former president's fate. Last February, Chief [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak Critics say the immunity ruling is flawed for reasons similar to those the court gave for overturning Roe, which had established a right to abortion. In the [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak and Alicia Parlapiano Amid signs of dysfunction and disarray, Chief Justice John Roberts reasserted his authority, while the influence of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito waned. [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak After the justices hear arguments on Thursday, how they decide may be just as important as what they decide. Follow our live coverage of the Trump immunity [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak As the Supreme Court tries to recapture its authority and legitimacy, it may be tempted to issue a pair of lopsided decisions both for and against the [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The Supreme Court will consider whether to hear an appeal from an inmate who says his lawyer filed shoddy papers, including a brief saying the inmate must [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday over whether to overturn a key precedent on the power of executive agencies. On a blustery fall morning in [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The legal issues are novel and tangled, experts said, and the justices may be wary of knocking a leading presidential candidate off the ballot. The Supreme Court, [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak Though he appointed three justices, his administration had the worst track record before the justices since at least the 1930s. 'I'm not happy with the Supreme Court,' [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak Since her retirement in 2006, the court has dismantled her key rulings on abortion, affirmative action and campaign finance. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who died Friday at [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The code of conduct issued on Monday, following reports of undisclosed travel and gifts, includes no enforcement mechanism and lets individual justices decide ethics questions for themselves. [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The former president says he has 'absolute immunity.' But an array of Supreme Court decisions tells a different story. Among the bold claims in the motion filed [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak and Alicia Parlapiano Chief Justice Roberts delivered both landmark victories for the right and significant rulings in which he forged alliances with the liberal justices. The Supreme [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The justices considered whether the artist was free to use elements of a rock photographer's portrait of the musician Prince. The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak In a combative 2004 memo rejecting calls for his recusal, Justice Antonin Scalia discussed whether a trip on a litigant's plane was a gift that had to [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The court's order seemed to vindicate a commitment in last year's decision in Dobbs: to leave further questions about abortion to the political process. WASHINGTON - It [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The justices have been receptive to claims of religious freedom and may take a broad view of a federal law that requires employers to 'reasonably accommodate' workers' [...]

Byline: Michael D. Shear and Adam Liptak It is not the first time that the Supreme Court has suggested that President Biden has overstepped his authority, but the case could [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak Several new studies document the current court's distinctive insistence on its dominance and the justices' willingness to use procedural shortcuts to achieve it. WASHINGTON - The conventional [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The justices return to the bench on Monday to start a term that will include major cases on affirmative action, voting and discrimination against gay couples. Several [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the fall over whether the artist's alterations of a photograph of the musician should be as protected as a new, [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak What was once a dialogue between the branches has become almost entirely one-sided, with the justices accumulating clout at lawmakers' expense. WASHINGTON - On the last day [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak Outflanked by five impatient and ambitious justices to his right, the chief justice has become powerless to pursue his incremental approach. WASHINGTON - In the most important [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The disclosure of a draft opinion that would overrule Roe v. Wade, legal experts said, was evidence that the court is not much different from other Washington [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The leaked draft opinion that would eliminate the constitutional right to abortion sent mixed signals about what other precedents might be at risk. WASHINGTON - When the [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The leak of a draft majority opinion overruling Roe v. Wade raises questions about motives, methods and whether defections are still possible. WASHINGTON - Sources have motives, [...]

Byline: Michael D. Shear and Adam Liptak A majority of the court privately voted to strike down the landmark abortion rights decision, according to the document, obtained by Politico. WASHINGTON [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will help make the Supreme Court look like the nation but will have little power to halt its rightward trajectory. WASHINGTON - Judge [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak In her first day of responding to senators' questions, the judge gave few hints about her judicial philosophy but spoke forcefully about public safety and terrorism. WASHINGTON [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The replacement of Justice Stephen G. Breyer with another liberal is unlikely to alter the basic dynamic at the court or to slow its accelerating conservative ambitions. [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak As justices consider Mississippi's restrictive abortion law, scholars debate what a reversal of Roe v. Wade would mean for the court's credibility. WASHINGTON - Donald J. Trump, [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The best-selling author, whose new book, 'The Judge's List,' is about a murderous member of the bench, talks about the Supreme Court, wrongful convictions and what it [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak In an interview prompted by his new book, the 83-year-old leader of the court's liberal wing said he is working on a decision about when to step [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak A comprehensive look at references to the press in justices' opinions revealed 'a marked and previously undocumented uptick in negative depictions.' WASHINGTON - Last month, in a [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The Supreme Court has placed strict First Amendment limits on incitement charges in court. But many legal scholars say they do not apply in impeachment trials. WASHINGTON [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak In its last six months, the Trump administration put more than three times as many prisoners to death as the federal government had in the previous six [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak There are reasons to question the wisdom of recent actions by Twitter in barring President Trump from its site and Simon & Schuster in canceling the publication [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The Supreme Court nominee would not say whether the president could pardon himself or delay the election, but she displayed a sure command of the law. WASHINGTON [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak As an appeals court judge, Judge Barrett has issued opinions that have reflected those of her mentor, Justice Antonin Scalia, but with few of his occasional liberal [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak Doling out victories to both sides, the court led by Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to strive to avoid charges of partisanship. WASHINGTON - In an era [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak 'I see so many flaws in it,' said Lyle Denniston, the dean emeritus of the Supreme Court press corps, who has attended more arguments than any other [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak A call for civility by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. underscores the delicate balance he is trying to maintain. WASHINGTON - It was early Wednesday morning, [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak Chief Justice John Roberts's role at an impeachment trial may be mostly ceremonial, but signs of partisanship could damage the Supreme Court. WASHINGTON - When Chief Justice [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak The president has vowed to ask the justices to intercede, but the Constitution and precedents are against him. WASHINGTON - 'If the partisan Dems ever tried to [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak WASHINGTON - Saying the opioid crisis requires bold measures, the state of Arizona filed an audacious lawsuit in the Supreme Court on Wednesday asking the justices to [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak WASHINGTON - Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has sat in the center seat on the Supreme Court bench since his arrival in 2005. But only this [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak WASHINGTON - President Trump's two Supreme Court appointees went to the same Jesuit high school in the Washington suburbs - at the same time. After attending Ivy [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak WASHINGTON - President Trump's wholesale refusal to provide information to Congress threatens to upend the delicate balance that is the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution. [...]

Byline: Adam Liptak WASHINGTON - President Trump has been consulting the Constitution. In a Twitter post on Monday, he recited part of Article II, Section 4, the provision that allows [...]

Byline: ADAM LIPTAK WASHINGTON -- The words of the 14th Amendment are plain, and the scholarly and judicial consensus about what they mean is nearly uniform: Children born in the [...]