President Biden will respond on Monday night to the Supreme Court’s ruling on immunity for former President Donald J. Trump, White House officials said, his first […]
Just hours after the Supreme Court heard arguments last week in an important abortion case and the day before it considered whether former President Donald J. […]
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. devoted his annual year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary, issued on Sunday, to the positive role that […]
At the Jan. 8 conference, the three liberals — Justices Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor — and the chief justice opposed hearing the case. The […]
In the wake of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that significantly limits what the government can do to restrict guns, states led by […]
We say that the Supreme Court decides cases, but that is not correct. It picks isolated questions to answer, often choosing among ones proposed by the […]
WASHINGTON — Courts decide vexing legal matters and interpret opaque Constitutional language all the time, from defining pornography and judging whether a search or seizure is […]
The Supreme Court has rejected the theory in past rulings, as recently as 2019. Chief Justice John Roberts implicitly ruled out support for the theory in […]