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A Georgetown law professor argues that five rulings by the justices in recent years have allowed behavior that is ''sketchy as hell'' and meant to make the judiciary look good [...]

The driver, Douglas Horn, sued the maker of a product said to be free of THC under a federal racketeering law, saying he had suffered a business injury. The Supreme […]

Some justices said the court was powerless to grant relief to the inmate, Richard Glossip. Others seemed ready to order a new trial or at least an evidentiary hearing. A [...]

The administration said a state abortion law conflicted with a federal law requiring emergency care. The court similarly sidestepped a case from Idaho in June. The Supreme Court on Monday [...]

The justices considered a routine case on unemployment benefits in characteristic style, peppering the lawyers with questions and dropping hints about their views. The last time the justices put on [...]

Aside from major disputes on issues like transgender rights and guns, the docket is fairly routine. That could change fast if the presidential race is contested. The new Supreme Court [...]

Republican-led states and industry groups argued that the Environmental Protection Agency had moved too fast and imposed onerous regulations. The Supreme Court said on Friday that it would not stop [...]

The justices will consider whether a 2005 law that gives gun makers broad immunity applies in the case, which accuses them of complicity in supplying cartels with weapons. The Supreme [...]

The candidate had asked the justices to intervene after a state judge found that he had used an improper home address in election paperwork. The Supreme Court said on Friday [...]

Democrats had argued that Ms. Stein, the Green Party's presidential candidate, was ineligible because the party had failed to submit a required statement. The Supreme Court said on Friday that [...]

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 Justice John G. Roberts Jr. sent [...]

In a new book, Judge Frederic Block, who has served for decades, urged courts to vindicate the promise of the First Step Act, which lets prisoners ask for compassionate release [...]

The new plan was part of a piecemeal approach to student debt after the justices rejected a proposal last year that would have canceled more than $400 billion in loans. [...]

Missouri sought to sue New York under the court's ''original jurisdiction,'' which sometimes allows suits between states to be brought directly to the justices. The Supreme Court on Monday rejected [...]

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 month since the [...]

As the Supreme Court veered to the right, David D. Cole oversaw hundreds of lawsuits against the Trump administration and helped secure more wins than losses before the justices. It [...]

The junior member of the court's six-justice conservative supermajority often questioned its approach and wrote important dissents joined by liberal justices. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, 52, is the youngest member [...]

Amid signs of dysfunction and disarray, Chief Justice John Roberts reasserted his authority, while the influence of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito waned. Former President Donald J. Trump had [...]

The court, which issued two major decisions on guns in the term that ended Monday, does not seem ready to return to the subject. The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday [...]

The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are at least 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds. The Supreme [...]

Three justices dissented in the case, which could affect more than two dozen youths sentenced to die in prison. Over the dissents of its three liberal members, the Supreme Court [...]

The justices unanimously returned two cases, which concerned state laws that supporters said were aimed at ''Silicon Valley censorship,'' to lower courts. Critics had said the laws violated the sites' [...]

The ruling could amplify the impact of a separate decision overturning the Chevron doctrine, which had required courts to defer to executive agencies' interpretations of statutes. The Supreme Court on [...]

The ruling makes a distinction between official actions of a president, which have immunity, and those of a private citizen. In dissent, the court's liberals lament a vast expansion of [...]

The ruling that the Justice Department misused a 2002 law in charging a pro-Trump rioter who entered the Capitol could have an impact on hundreds of other cases, including one [...]

A foundational 1984 decision had required courts to defer to agencies' reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes, underpinning regulations on health care, safety and the environment. The Supreme Court on Friday [...]

The court's strategy of avoidance and delay cannot last and may have been shaped by a desire to avoid controversy in an election year. Superficially, abortion rights had a good [...]

Common in executive agencies, such tribunals hear enforcement actions without juries -- a practice the court's conservative supermajority said violated the Constitution. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected one of [...]

Three states challenged the administration's ''good neighbor'' plan, meant to protect downwind states from harmful emissions. The Supreme Court temporarily put on hold on Thursday an Environmental Protection Agency plan [...]

The case, one of several this term on how the First Amendment applies to technology platforms, was dismissed on the ground that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue. The Supreme [...]

The court, which has limited the sweep of several anti-corruption laws, distinguished after-the-fact rewards from before-the-fact bribes. The Supreme Court limited the sweep of a federal law on Wednesday aimed [...]

A new study analyzed 50 years of friend-of-the-court briefs and found that abortion opponents were more relentless than their adversaries, with some reflected in the justices' opinions. When the Supreme [...]

The decision amounted to a retreat from what had been an unbroken series of major decisions expanding gun rights that started in 2008. The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that [...]

Sylvia Gonzalez, a Texas city councilwoman, said officials violated the First Amendment by arresting her after she criticized the city manager. A former Texas city councilwoman may pursue a lawsuit [...]

Even as the size of the court's docket has shrunk, it has deferred a larger share of its decisions to the very end of its term. The Supreme Court has [...]

The decision was unanimous but fractured in rationale, with several justices objecting to the majority's use of a history-based test. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a California lawyer's attempt [...]

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., once close allies, have embraced starkly different conceptions of the judicial role. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. [...]

The justices will soon decide whether to hear a case that could affect more than two dozen youths sentenced to die in prison. The U.S. Supreme Court has twice rebuked [...]

Donald Trump's promise to seek retribution challenges long-established norms. The election could hinge in part on what kind of justice system the country believes it has now and wants in [...]

Legal ethicists welcomed the fact that the justice gave reasons for staying on two Jan. 6 cases, a break from court tradition. But they said his rationale was open to [...]

''My wife is fond of flying flags,'' the justice wrote in a letter to members of Congress who had demanded he step down from two cases related to the Jan. [...]

In a new memoir, a retired federal appeals court judge who was once a leading candidate for the Supreme Court reflects on candor and independence. Had Al Gore won the [...]

The case concerned a constitutional puzzle: how to distinguish the roles of race and partisanship in drawing voting maps when Black voters overwhelmingly favor Democrats. The Supreme Court cleared the [...]

A decision against the agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, could have cast doubt on all of its regulations and enforcement actions. The Supreme Court rejected a challenge on Thursday [...]

A federal appeals court condemned the ''stark and egregious'' violation of Damon Landor's religious freedom. But it said he could not sue the prison officials. Damon Landor is a Rastafarian. [...]

In a commencement ceremony at a Catholic university, the justice said that fundamental principles were in peril at universities and American society. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. warned on Saturday [...]

In a public interview at a judicial conference, the justice used historical parallels and sports analogies to sketch out his views on the Supreme Court's past and future. As the [...]

Two Alabama women spent more than a year trying to reclaim vehicles they owned, which the police had confiscated after arresting their drivers on drug charges. The Supreme Court on [...]

The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds. The Supreme Court refused [...]

Oral arguments serve a crucial role at the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts said last week at Georgetown University. But they are not always what they seem. Just hours [...]