The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that children born in the U.S. are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment, even if their parents are in the country unlawfully or temporarily.
Election officials in states that allow mail ballots to be counted after Election Day say they are relieved that the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an effort to outlaw the practice.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was gifted concert tickets in Puerto Rico last year as members of the high court continued to accept international teaching gigs and and receive royalties for books they have authored.
The Supreme Court is rejecting a Republican-led attack on state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a target of President Donald Trump.
The Supreme Court is wrapping up a term that has focused on President Donald Trump’s expansive claims of presidential power.
The Supreme Court has granted tech giant Cisco’s bid to shut down a lawsuit claiming that the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China.
The Supreme Court is siding with President Donald Trump's administration in a lawsuit over speech restrictions on immigration judges that raised questions about the rights of federal workers.
A divided Supreme Court has dismissed Alabama’s bid to be allowed to execute a convicted murderer who was found by lower courts to be intellectually disabled.
The Supreme Court will hear from Catholic preschools that say it’s unconstitutional to exclude them from a state-funded program because they won’t admit kids from LGBTQ+ families.
President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend a Supreme Court hearing in which judges will hear arguments on his executive order limiting birthright citizenship.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is warning that personal criticism of federal judges is dangerous and “it’s got to stop.”.
The Supreme Court seemed likely Monday to loosen a federal law that bars marijuana users from owning guns in a case that crossed typical political lines.
President Trump has used his State of the Union address to sell a booming America, even as voters worry about the economy.
President Donald Trump’s vision of the Supreme Court, in which his three appointees are personally loyal to him, collided with the court’s view of itself when six justices voted to strike down Trump’s signature economic policy, global tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law.
The Supreme Court is reviving a Republican challenge to a law allowing the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a target of President Donald Trump.
The Supreme Court is wrestling with whether a former Louisiana inmate can sue prison officials who shaved his dreadlocks in violation of his Rastafari religious beliefs.
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
A call to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide is on the agenda Friday for the justices’ closed-door conference.
A major question hangs over the Supreme Court’s closely watched case on President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs: Will the conservative majority hold the Republican president to the same exacting standards it used to limit his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett says “violence or threats of violence” against judges shouldn’t be the cost of public service.
President Donald Trump has achieved significant victories in the Supreme Court during the first six months of his second term.
A federal judge is questioning when the Trump administration will try to enforce its birthright citizenship executive order.
Supreme Court justices lambasted each other's arguments in a ruling over an effort by the president to deny birthright citizenship to children born to immigrants.
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received more than $2 million last year for her best-selling memoir, “Lovely One,” according to her annual financial disclosure.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the constitutional provision that allows people to legally challenge their detention by the government is actually a tool the Trump administration can use in its broader crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Trump administration has been pushing back against certain court rulings it doesn't like in the hundreds of cases filed against it in the past few months.
Top White House aide Stephen Miller says the Trump administration is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally.
The U.S. Supreme Court said that federal employees who also are in the military reserve must be paid the equivalent of their civilian salaries when called to active duty during national emergencies.
Chief Justice John Roberts appears to hold the key vote over whether the Supreme Court will allow the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school, in Oklahoma.
The Catholic Church in Oklahoma wants taxpayers to pay for an online charter school that “is faithful to the teachings of Jesus Christ.”.
A disability-rights case at the Supreme Court grew unusually heated on Monday, including accusations of lying and references to one side’s position being a potential “five-alarm fire.”.
The federal judiciary is warning that Congress is not providing enough money for judges’ security, at a time of escalating threats and chilling efforts at intimidation.
The Supreme Court has appeared divided in a case over whether states should be able to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.
The Supreme Court is siding with a truck driver who wants to sue for triple damages over a CBD hemp product he says was falsely advertised as being free from marijuana’s active ingredient and resulted in him getting fired.
The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward a Catholic charitable organization pushing back against the state of Wisconsin in the latest religious rights case to come before the court.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has a book coming out in September that her publisher is billing as an invitation for “readers to see the Supreme Court through the lens of her experience.”.
The Supreme Court has made it harder for environmental regulators to limit water pollution, ruling for San Francisco in a case about the discharge of raw sewage that sometimes occurs during heavy rains.
Kentucky Republicans are considering the race for the U.S. Senate seat being opened by Mitch McConnell's announcement he's retiring.
President Donald Trump will need the Supreme Court, with three justices he appointed, to enable the most aggressive of the many actions he has taken in just the first few weeks of his second White House term.
Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she's found an outlet for the frustration that can result from being in the minority on the nation’s highest court: boxing.
The Supreme Court has agreed to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma.
Those binders full of executive orders that President Donald Trump has been signing with a flourish in recent days don’t just magically appear before him.
The conservative-majority Supreme Court appeared likely to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender minors as it heard the most high-profile case of its term on Wednesday.
When he was president, Donald Trump remade the Supreme Court with three nominees, and in the process shifted the court's ideological balance to the conservative right.
The Supreme Court has rejected a Republican push that could have blocked more than 41,000 Arizona voters in the presidential race.
A Nevada man awaiting trial on charges that he stormed the U.S. Capitol has been jailed after he allegedly made threats directed at Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and other public officials.
Amy Coney Barrett has been a firm member of the conservative Supreme Court supermajority she cemented four years ago on issues ranging from abortion to guns, but her latest opinions reflect an increasing willingness to occasionally step away from that bloc.
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.
Attorney General Merrick Garland says he's disappointed the Supreme Court has made it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction.
The Supreme Court is putting the Environmental Protection Agency’s air pollution-fighting “good neighbor” plan on hold while legal challenges continue.
The Supreme Court has ruled against a California woman who said her rights were violated after federal officials refused to allow her husband into the country, in part, because of the way his tattoos were interpreted.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin says his committee has uncovered at least three additional luxury trips given to Justice Clarence Thomas by donors as part of the panel’s ethics investigation into the Supreme Court.
Fifty years ago, three of the justices Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court joined in an 8-0 decision in the Watergate tapes case that effectively ended his presidency.
Justice Clarence Thomas is belatedly acknowledging more travel paid for by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, while several colleagues reported six-figure payments as part of book deals.
Many Democrats campaigning for the Senate this year say they support suspending the filibuster rule to pass nationwide abortion protections.
It’s unclear exactly where the Supreme Court will land after hearing arguments about Idaho's abortion ban.
The core issue being debated before the Supreme Court on Thursday boils down to whether a former president is immune from prosecution for actions taken while in office.
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a Biden administration appeal over the regulation of difficult-to-trace ghost guns that was struck down by lower courts.
A unanimous Supreme Court has ruled public officials can sometimes be sued for blocking their critics on social media, an issue that first arose for the high court in a case involving then-President Donald Trump.
With the Supreme Court’s approval hovering near record lows, two justices have teamed up to promote the art of disagreeing without being nasty about it.
The Supreme Court has cast doubt with state laws that could affect how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users.
The Supreme Court will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the 2024 presidential ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss that culminated in the U.S. Capitol attack.
The Supreme Court is being thrust into the middle of two cases carrying enormous political and legal implications just weeks before the first votes in in the Iowa caucuses.
The new Supreme Court code of conduct agreed to by all nine justices does not appear to impose any significant new requirements on them.
The Supreme Court has signaled that it would rule against a man who wants to trademark the suggestive phrase “Trump too small.”.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told attendees at a judicial conference in Wisconsin on Monday that she welcomed public scrutiny of the court.
Overturning Roe v. Wade and affirmative action in higher education had been leading goals of the conservative legal movement for decades.
The Supreme Court has ruled against unionized drivers who walked off the job with their trucks full of wet concrete.
A nominee to the Connecticut Supreme Court has told state lawmakers that she would not have signed a 2017 letter supporting Amy Coney Barrett for a federal appeals court position if she knew Barrett would later vote to overturn Roe v. Wade abortion protections as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court won’t have far to look for a personal take on the “crushing weight” of student debt that underlies the Biden administration’s college loan forgiveness plan.
Months after the unprecedented leak of the U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade, lawmakers in North Dakota have struck down a bill to criminalize court leaks.
The Supreme Court is being warned about the potentially dire consequences of a case next week involving a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for same-sex couples.
The Supreme Court is wrestling with a politically tinged dispute over a Biden administration policy that would prioritize deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.
A federal appeals court St. Louis has thrown up another roadblock for President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness.
President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness has been blocked by a second federal court, leaving millions of borrowers wondering if they’ll get debt relief at all.
Four of the five Supreme Court justices who overturned the constitutional right to abortion showed up at the conservative Federalist Society’s black-tie dinner marking its 40th anniversary.
The Supreme Court appears likely to leave in place most of a federal law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children.
A lawyer for a man on Arizona’s death row has told the U.S. Supreme Court that jurors in the case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure the man would never walk free was to sentence him to death.
Justice Elena Kagan says “time will tell” whether the Supreme Court can get back to “finding common ground” after a term in which the court’s six conservatives and three liberals split over major issues including abortion and gun rights.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has rejected an appeal from a Wisconsin taxpayers group seeking to stop the Biden administration’s student debt cancellation program.
Andy Warhol and Prince held center stage in a copyright case before the Supreme Court on Wednesday that veered from Cheerios and “Mona Lisa” analogies to Justice Clarence Thomas’ enthusiasm for the “Purple Rain” showman.