SUPREME COURT

A 2022 Supreme Court decision is overturning one law after another that seeks to reduce gun violence in America.

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has led thousands into a third round of protests against President William Ruto's government, despite threats of legal crackdowns coming from Nairobi.

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has led thousands of protesters in a third round of anti-government demonstrations as the interior ministry in charge of police has warned that no more violent protests will be tolerated

The Supreme Court is grappling with whether a man serving a life sentence for his role on an international “kill team” should get a new trial.

Supreme Court justices will be under tighter scrutiny in their financial disclosures after gift and hospitality regulations were updated earlier this month.

U.S. Marshals were advised to refrain from arresting protesters “unless absolutely necessary," according to training documents obtained by a Republican senator.

Progressive states and cities have launched a new frenzy of lawsuits in state courts demanding billions of dollars for damages allegedly related to climate change.

Yair Rosenberg on how the country got to this moment, and what coverage of the issue can miss

Supreme Court justices and all federal judges must provide a fuller public accounting of free trips, meals and other gifts they accept from corporations or organizations, according to revised regulations quietly adopted this month.

Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz has opened up an eight-figure fundraising lead over conservative opponent and former Justice Dan Kelly.

The Trans Radical Activist Network is promoting a "Trans Day of Vengeance" protest at SCOTUS on its website, after a trans school shooter killed six in Nashville this week.

The Supreme Court on Monday weighed whether giving immigration advice risks prosecution under a law making it a crime to "encourage and induce" illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S.

Funding for the group led by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife was channeled through a right-wing think tank, an arrangement that effectively shielded key operational details from public view, a Post investigation found.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case about whether a federal law that prohibits inducing unlawful immigration violates the First Amendment.

Alliance Defending Freedom asked the Supreme Court to hear a case brought by a therapist in Washington state challenging a law he says is unconstitutional.

A teen was killed by Oklahoma police while he was naked and unarmed. The teen's parents brought the case to the Supreme Court, but it was dismissed.

A disabled activist is looking to file disability rights lawsuits against hotels she doesn't intend to visit. The Supreme Court will decide if the activist can do so.

The Supreme Court will decide whether a disabled activist can file disability rights lawsuits against hotels she doesn't intend to visit.

The Supreme Court won’t hear a civil rights case brought by the parents of a teenager who was naked and unarmed when he was fatally shot by an Oklahoma police officer in 2019.

The protests rocking Israel have been extraordinary not just in size but in composition. The Post spoke with protesters about why they were in the streets.

The Supreme Court will decide whether a disabled activist can file disability rights lawsuits against hotels she doesn’t intend to visit.

Kansas’ highest court has signaled that it still considers access to abortion a “fundamental” right under the state constitution.

Idaho lawmakers recently passed a bill that would authorize the use of firing squads if lethal injections drugs are unavailable. Other states have also authorized firing squads.

Idaho lawmakers recently passed a bill that would authorize the use of firing squads if lethal injections drugs are unavailable. Other states have also authorized firing squads.

A Jamaican man was accused of recruiting support for the Islamic State Group. The man was extradited to New York where he faces terrorism charges.

Israel’s attorney general has warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he violated the Supreme Court’s conflict of interest ruling, which barred him from direct involvement in his government’s divisive plans for a judicial overhaul

The visit comes as the Israeli leader faces domestic turmoil over judicial reforms.

India's Opposition leaders are holding a protest march against the verdict.

Hannah Arensman revealed in an amicus brief filed to the Supreme Court she retired from cyclocross over the emergence of transgender athletes in female sports.

A federal official wrote a parody of Harvard’s attitude toward Asian Americans and shared it with the dean of admissions. Why did a judge try to hide that from the public?

The former vice president’s advisers have privately accepted the possibility that the he might have to testify against former president Donald Trump during an election season.

At Wednesday's argument, the justices struggled to reconcile their own previous decisions enforcing the nation's trademark laws and what some of them saw as a potential threat to free speech.

Jack Daniel's argues VIP Products infringed on its trademarks and trade dress with its "Bad Spaniel" dog toy line.

The U.S. abortion landscape is far from settled nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to terminate a pregnancy.

By JESSICA GRESKO | Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday for a deaf student who sued his public school system for providing an inadequate education. The case is significant for other disabled students who allege they were failed by school officials. The case the justices ruled in involves Miguel Luna Perez, who attended public school in Sturgis, Michigan. Perez’s lawyers told the court that for 12 years the school system neglected the boy and lied to his parents about the progress he was making, permanently stunting his ability to communicate. Lower courts said Perez was barred from pursuing his ADA claims because of language in the IDEA, but the Supreme Court disagreed.

The whiskey maker argues that the toy named Bad Spaniel infringes on its trademark, confuses consumers and tarnishes its reputation.

The 5-to-4 ruling overturned part of the state’s near-total abortion ban, allowing an exemption if a doctor says the pregnancy could threaten the patient’s life.

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday for a deaf student who sued his public school system for providing an inadequate education.

Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is working alongside fellow party members to keep the state's 1849 abortion ban in the spotlight as a key Supreme Court race nears.

The high court said a deaf student could sue for past damages for not getting the support he needed to succeed in public school.

West Virginia's Save Women's Sports Act is a part of a legal battle between a 12-year-old transgender student-athlete and state lawmakers.

The Supreme Court spent nearly two hours arguing whether the Navajo Nation should obtain water rights to the drought-stricken Colorado River.

The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously for a deaf student who sued his public school system for providing an inadequate education.

The case involves a 12-year-old transgender girl who is taking puberty blockers and wants to stay on the girls’ track and cross-country teams at her middle school.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates are set to debate on Tuesday night. Voting for the court also begins today for the high-stakes court race.

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed an appeal against a ruling by the state Supreme Court blocking a rule that allowed the state government to force people into quarantine.

Almost a third of the reservation's 170,000 residents lack access to clean, reliable drinking water. The tribe wants to be able to represent itself in litigation over the Colorado River.

The Supreme Court appears to be split in a dispute between the federal government and the Navajo Nation over water from the drought-stricken Colorado River.

A government prosecutor in Guatemala has asked a court to lift the immunity of one of the candidates in the country’s June presidential elections, because the candidate asked about a judge’s motive in prosecuting journalists

At issue is whether the Navajo Nation can press ahead with a lawsuit that seeks a federal plan to supply its residents’ unmet need for water.

The 131-year-old pledge is back in the news. A high school student recently landed in the principal's office for failing to honor it. She's not the first to protest a pledge that has been called unconstitutional.

The conservative majority may strike down consideration of race in school admissions. David Remnick talks with two academics and an admissions officer about the future of diversity.

No Republican has done more to restrict abortion rights than Donald Trump.

Saturday, March 18, 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright that criminal defendants have a right to a lawyer.

The new law appears to be the nation's first ban of abortion pills.

The conservative majority may strike down consideration of race in school admissions. What will that mean for colleges? Plus, how the culture wars came to the Catholic Church.

The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was remembered during ceremonies at the Supreme Court.

Antiabortion groups 'forum shopped' for a Trump judge likely to block medication abortion nationwide

Both those taking to the streets in protest and those remaining at home believe they’re defending democracy.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is facing pushback from a victim’s sister and a county prosecutor for her plans to defy a court order to execute a prisoner for his conviction in a 2002 killing.

Medication abortions became the preferred method for ending pregnancy in the U.S. even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that Ukraine can try to avoid repaying $3 billion in loans it said it took under pressure from Russia in 2013 to prevent it from trying to join the European Union.

The North Carolina Supreme Court is hearing arguments again in a redistricting case it ruled on only three months ago.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs says corrections officials won't carry out an execution even though the state Supreme Court scheduled it over the objections of the state’s new attorney general.

Six states in Nigeria on Friday asked the country’s Supreme Court to void the result of the just-concluded presidential election.

Proponents of the Israeli government's planned legal overhaul often argue that curtailing the power of judges and courts is good for the country.

Seven months after a decisive statewide vote affirmed abortion rights in Kansas, the Republican-controlled Legislature’s annual session in some ways looks a lot like previous ones, with multiple anti-abortion proposals.

Both Democrats and Republicans are preparing for a prolonged political battle over student debt relief if the U.S. Supreme Court rejects President Joe Biden's plan to forgive federal loans.

Arguments at the Supreme Court over President Joe Biden's student debt cancellation left some borrowers feeling isolated as they heard such a personal subject reduced to cold legal language.

The Supreme Court is taking up a partisan legal fight over President Joe Biden’s plan to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions of Americans.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has written her first majority opinion for the Supreme Court.

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The fate of President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan is up in the air after Supreme Court justices questioned whether his administration has the authority to broadly cancel federal student loans.

Conservative justices in the Supreme Court’s majority seem likely to sink President Joe Biden’s plan to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions of Americans.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments this week over President Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan.

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.

The Supreme Court seemed skeptical of a lawsuit trying to hold social media companies responsible for a terrorist attack at a Turkish nightclub that killed 39 people.

The Supreme Court has refused to step into a legal fight over state laws that require contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal, backed by the satirical The Onion, from a man who was arrested and prosecuted for making fun of police on social media.

In its first case about the federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet, the Supreme Court seems unlikely to side with a family wanting to hold Google liable for the death of their daughter who was killed in a terrorist attack.

A lawsuit against YouTube from the family of an American college student who was killed by Islamic State gunmen in Paris in 2015 is at the center of a closely watched Supreme Court case being argued Tuesday.

A landmark Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment is upending gun laws across the country, dividing judges and sowing confusion over what firearm restrictions can remain on the books.

The Supreme Court says it won't hear arguments as planned March 1 in a case involving a Trump-era immigration policy that's been used several millions of times over the past three years to quickly turn away migrants at the border.

Indian tax officials have searched the BBC’s offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, weeks after it showed a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the U.K. The two-part documentary examined Modi’s role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the western state of Gujarat, where he was chief minister at the time.

The Supreme Court soon could find itself with easy ways out of two high-profile cases involving immigration and elections, if the justices are looking to avoid potentially messy and divisive decisions.

For the first time in NFL history, two Black quarterbacks are playing in the Super Bowl. Here is why that matters.

The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that a viewing platform at London’s Tate Modern art gallery breached the privacy of residents of luxury apartments next door.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired a key Cabinet ally, heeding a Supreme Court ruling commanding him to do so and deepening a rift over the power of the courts.

The Supreme Court says it hasn't determined who leaked a draft of the court’s opinion overturning abortion rights, but that the investigation continues.

The Supreme Court is off to a historically slow start in failing to resolve any cases in which it has heard arguments since early October.

Israel’s attorney general has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he must fire a key Cabinet ally following a court ruling disqualifying the minister from serving in government.

A top state lawyer has urged the Indiana Supreme Court to uphold the state’s Republican-backed abortion ban.

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The Supreme Court seemed sympathetic to the arguments of a deaf student who sued his public school system for providing an inadequate education.

A Japanese court has found three former utility company executives not guilty of negligence over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster and the subsequent deaths of more than 40 elderly residents during their forced evacuation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government plans to charge ahead with an overhaul of the country’s judicial system.

Tens of thousands of Israelis have gathered in central Tel Aviv to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government to overhaul the country’s legal system and weaken the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court is adding eight new arguments to its calendar.

The chief justice of Israel’s Supreme Court has sharply attacked the sweeping changes to the country’s justice system planned by the new conservative government, lending her voice to a growing outcry against the proposed overhaul.

House Republicans are taking early action on abortion now that they are in the majority.