Supreme Court

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday released the schedule for its oral arguments in December, six days of cases that will include a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on hormone therapy, sex transition surgeries and puberty blockers for transgender minors.... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared poised Wednesday to rein in the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to enforce broad water quality standards that coastal cities claim expose them to liability without any advance notice. At issue is a challenge from... Read More

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court decided Wednesday that the Environmental Protection Agency can begin enforcing strict new rules on power plant emissions despite efforts by conservative states to block them. The rules have the effect of moving the nation... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in the case that asks whether a commercial truck driver fired after failing a drug test can file a RICO claim against the manufacturer of the hemp-based product he ingested.... Read More

WASHINGTON — Two congressional Democrats are awaiting answers from the Supreme Court’s chief justice about how he handled an apparent conflict of interest over a Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot case. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of... Read More

WASHINGTON — Even deadly serious cases before the U.S. Supreme Court have their lighter moments, and one of these occurred Wednesday, when Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor effectively teamed up to point out why even in legal writing —... Read More

WASHINGTON — Over the past 27 years, Richard Glossip, a death row inmate in Oklahoma, has been scheduled for execution nine times and actually served his “last meal” — consisting of fish and chips, a Wendy’s Baconator, a strawberry shake... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed poised Tuesday to extend federal gun control laws over “ghost guns” that have provoked outrage and increased armed assault rates as technology became more sophisticated in the past decade. Ghost guns refer to homemade... Read More

WASHINGTON — As sure a sign of autumn as pumpkins decorating the front porch, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court returned to work on Monday, beginning the term with a civil rights case involving the denial of unemployment benefits.... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a ruling by Alabama’s highest court that stated frozen embryos preserved for use in in vitro fertilization are human children for purposes of litigation. The Center for... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review a plan for storing as much as 40,000 tons of radioactive nuclear plant waste at a temporary site in west Texas. The case is likely to provide a pivotal decision on... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s fall term begins on Monday, Oct. 7, and the calendar for the first two months suggests it is poised to get off to a fast start to the 2024-2025 term. The justices will hear a... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday denied a request from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign committee that he be reinstated to the New York state ballot for the 2024 presidential election. The request was directed to Justice Sonia Sotomayor,... Read More

WASHINGTON — Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee berated the Supreme Court Tuesday for its July 1 decision that said most presidential actions are immune from prosecution. The decision in Trump v. United States was prompted by the Jan. 6,... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 22-year-old woman who became an abortion rights advocate after she was raped by her stepfather as a child tells her story in a new campaign ad for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Hadley Duvall says in voiceover that she's never... Read More

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday called for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from cases involving a religious legal group that won praise recently from his wife. Virginia “Ginni” Thomas sent... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday kept on hold the latest multibillion-dollar plan from the Biden administration that would have lowered payments for millions of borrowers, while lawsuits make their way through lower courts. The justices rejected an administration request... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden proposed major changes to the Supreme Court Monday that would limit the terms in office of the nine justices and force a code of conduct on them that would be enforced by other persons. He... Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are urging a judge to uphold Donald Trump’s historic hush money conviction, arguing in court papers made public Thursday that the verdict should stand despite the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity. The Manhattan district attorney’s... Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — The delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention were trying to create a new governing framework for the fledging United States of America. They knew they needed SOMEONE to be at the helm of the federal government.... Read More

WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., introduced articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Jr. on Wednesday, accusing them of committing “high crimes and misdemeanors” by refusing to recuse themselves from cases in which they... Read More

WASHINGTON — Political repercussions that continue this week from former President Donald Trump’s win of partial immunity from prosecution include threats in Congress against the Supreme Court and a new burden on federal and state judges to recast the criminal... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday at least temporarily voided state laws restricting the discretion of social media companies over their content moderation policies. The social media companies are trying to respond to pressure from Congress by removing false... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ended its term by ruling for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, a decision that almost certainly means Donald Trump won't stand trial before the November election. That closely watched ruling,... Read More

WASHINGTON — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday held that while a former president has absolute immunity for actions taken while carrying out core constitutional powers, no such immunity extends to unofficial acts. However, in a widely expected move,... Read More

WASHINGTON — A Supreme Court ruling Thursday gutted the authority of administrative agencies to resolve disputes internally over the financial penalties they impose. The result is likely to be an increase in the number of jury trials when organizations or... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s bid to delay his four-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress. The one-sentence order from the court does not explain the rationale for its decision,... Read More

WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Friday struck down charges against a former Pennsylvania police officer who entered the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot intended to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election. In a... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine, holding that from here on out, federal judges should not defer to agency interpretations of unclear regulations. The 6-3 ruling, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, is a... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday for the federal government to compel social media companies to block what it describes as dangerous misinformation. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit said the federal government violated their First Amendment free... Read More