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Abortion, guns and religion _ a major change in the law in any one of these areas would have made for a fateful Supreme Court term.

Can the liberal Justices hold the conservatives back—by appealing to shame or the Constitution—as the consequences of the majority’s recklessness become even more dangerous for American democracy?

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority.

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.

The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is set to be sworn in as the court's 116th justice on Thursday.

In a dissent, Sotomayor said Gorsuch's summary "misconstrues the facts." The dispute echoes what what happened at the appeals-court level.

The court ruled 6-3 for the coach with the court's conservative justices in the majority and its liberals in dissent.

Justice Sotomayor said the Supreme Court's decision siding with a praying football coach will force states to "entangle themselves with religion."

Justice Sotomayor said the Supreme Court's decision siding with a praying football coach will force states to "entangle themselves with religion."

The Supreme Court has made it easier for certain prison inmates to seek shorter sentences under a bipartisan 2018 federal law aimed at reducing racial disparities in prison terms for cocaine crimes.

The Supreme Court ruling to overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision is unpopular with a majority of Americans — but did that matter.

More than a month ago, a stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicated that the Supreme Court was prepared to take the momentous step of overruling the Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and stripping away women's constitutional protections for abortion.

The nine justices of the Supreme Court made clear in their landmark ruling Friday whether they stand on abortion.

Sweeping Supreme Court rulings on guns and abortion this past week have sent an unmistakable message.

The majority overruled Roe and Casey "because it has always despised them," wrote Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in a joint dissent.

The Supreme Court issued its biggest gun rights ruling in more than a decade Thursday.

The Supreme Court is giving Republican legislative leaders in North Carolina a win in an ongoing fight over the state’s latest photo identification voting law.

The case involves an unusual program in a small state that affects only a few thousand students. But it could have greater implications as the more conservative court relaxes the constitutional line between church and state.

Sotomayor defended Thomas the same day that a House Democrat demanded the "corrupt jurist who has poisoned the High Court" resign.

Each day seems to bring a new controversy for the court, and Thursday’s was the additional revelations about Thomas, the wife of its longest serving member, Justice Clarence Thomas.

The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously for an American woman who is involved in a bitter international custody dispute with her Italian husband over their young son.

The rulings came as the court begins a sprint to try to clear its docket by the end of the month or early July.

Alito’s opinion suggests, without saying so, that the conservative justices may not be very sympathetic when the case returns to them.

The Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders.

The Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders. In two cases decided Monday, the court said that the immigrants, who fear persecution if sent back to their native countries, have no right under a federal law to a bond hearing at which they could argue for their freedom no matter how long they are held. The justices also ruled 6-3 to limit the immigrants ability to band together in court, an outcome that Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote “will leave many vulnerable noncitizens unable to protect their rights.”

A man armed with a machete once broke into Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s vacation home in the Caribbean and took $1,000.

Supreme Court financial disclosures reveal that the justices took in $800,000 in book royalties last year, a lucrative supplement to their judicial salaries.

Annual financial-disclosure reports released by the Supreme Court show the justices were paid thousands to teach at law schools and give speeches.

A source told NPR clerks act as diplomats for justices, but the fear that their professional lives are under threat is straining the Supreme Court.

In a 6-3 decision, the court’s conservative majority reinforced protections for government officials who are generally immune from civil lawsuits.

The Supreme Court is limiting when someone can sue for a violation of their rights by a federal official.

A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints.

The Supreme Court has ruled along ideological lines against two Arizona death row inmates who had argued that their lawyers did a poor job representing them in state court.

Court’s conservatives made it harder for federal courts to hear such claims from state convictions, prompting stinging dissent.

A Supreme Court ruling related to inmates on Arizona's death row was called "perverse" by Justice Sotomayor in a dissent joined by two other liberal justices.

The Supreme Court’s nine justices met in private for the first time since the leak of a draft opinion that would overrule Roe v.

Debates about abortion often center around the issue of when life begins. Some religions say it's at conception. Another says it's with the baby's first breath.

It's been clear in recent years that people in the United States don't have much faith in their institutions.

The fertile mind of Justice Stephen Breyer has conjured a stream of hypothetical questions through the years that have, in the words of a colleague, “befuddled” lawyers and justices alike.

The court's liberal wing has no desire to overturn the court's precedents, but its conservatives want to focus on accommodating religion in public schools and other public institutions.

More Americans approve than disapprove of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as its first Black female justice, a new poll finds, but that support is politically lopsided.

A leading Spanish museum says it's confident U.S. courts will again rule that a valuable French impressionist painting taken from a Jewish family by the Nazis belongs to the museum and not to the family's descendants.

The justices decide other low-profile cases as well, including the proper venue for a legal fight over Impressionist art turned over to the Nazis.

JUSTICES UPHOLD ruling TO EXCLUDE PUERTO RICANS FROM PROGRAM

In an 8-1 decision, the justices agreed that Puerto Ricans can continue to be excluded from SSI benefits for low-income disabled and blind people.

The court ruled 8-1, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor as the lone dissenter.

The Supreme Court has upheld the differential treatment of residents of Puerto Rico, ruling that Congress was within its power to exclude them from a benefits program that’s available in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress is not required to extend a federal disability benefits program to residents of Puerto Rico.

New York City began requiring public school employees to be vaccinated in the fall of 2021.

The Supreme Court is declining to wade into a lawsuit filed by four New York City public school employees over a policy that they be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Tearfully embracing a history-making moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court shows the progress of America.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will join a Supreme Court that is both more diverse than ever and more conservative than it’s been since the 1930s.

The Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court.

As the Senate moved closer to confirming the Supreme Court’s first Black female justice, the court’s first Latina told a university audience that the spotlight at times is harsh. But she was asked several questions about diversity, and what role her Latina heritage and humble upbringing played in her decision-making on the Supreme Court. I have worked as a district court judge, a circuit court judge. The Supreme Court is still closed to the public because of the pandemic, but this week saw the justices venturing out. Justice Amy Coney Barrett was at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, where other justices have preceded her.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he won’t vote for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The Supreme Court is casting doubt on Texas’ claim that it can’t be sued by a former state trooper who says he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq.

Justice Clarence Thomas participated in arguments at the Supreme Court via telephone on Monday following a hospital stay of nearly a week.

Empathy is not a quality many Republican senators want to see in the next Supreme Court justice.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson says that if confirmed to the Supreme Court she’d sit out an affirmative action lawsuit over Harvard’s admission policies because she sits on the board of her college alma mater.

The Supreme Court has thrown out Wisconsin state legislative maps that were preferred by the state’s Democratic governor and selected by Wisconsin’s top court, a win for Republicans that also makes it unclear what boundaries will be in place for the fall election.

It’s become almost commonplace viewing, seeing a woman nominated for the Supreme Court appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

When presidents nominate a candidate to serve on the Supreme Court, they often ask an experienced Washington hand to help shepherd that candidate through the Senate confirmation process.

In the wake of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement in January, President Joe Biden has nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to be his replacement.

Ketanji Brown Jackson is eminently qualified, but her confirmation hearings will reflect the pernicious and, at times, unhinged discourse in Washington.

The Supreme Court has yet to rule on a Mississippi case that could end abortion protections guaranteed by Roe v. Wade.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for the majority, said courts should recognize the “weighty interest that a State has in protecting its own laws.”

If confirmed, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would join Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett on the nine-person Supreme Court.

If Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed by the Senate, the Supreme Court's conservatives will still hold a 6-to-3 majority.

The judge President Joe Biden has chosen to fulfill his historic pledge to name the first Black woman to the Supreme Court would also bring rare experience of defending poor people charged with crimes.

President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court has launched what Democrats hope will be a quick, bipartisan confirmation process for the court’s first Black woman.

The Supreme Court is wading into a political clash between the Biden administration and Republican-led states seeking to defend a signature Trump-era immigration rule that the new administration has abandoned.

Just being the newest member of the Supreme Court can be a momentous adjustment for a justice.

The whispers and chatter about top contenders for the Supreme Court are growing as President Joe Biden zeroes in on a nominee to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.

If President Joe Biden’s search for a nominee to the Supreme Court could be summed up by a Help Wanted ad it might read: “Seeking a well-respected liberal jurist.

Alejandra Ávila, a Texas A&M International University alumna, has been selected for...

Major League Baseball has asked a federal mediator to intervene in stalled labor negotiations that likely will put off the start of spring training.

Unwritten ideas necessarily guide even the strictest readings of the text, despite what some originalist jurists like to believe.

The idea that Black people are getting something they have not earned by gaining access to something white people have long had began the second that slavery was abolished.

Justice Neil Gorsuch is speaking this weekend to the conservative legal group that boosted his Supreme Court candidacy.

Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham say it'd be good if the person named to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer doesn’t have an Ivy League degree.

President Joe Biden has strongly affirmed that he will nominate the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court.

President Biden promised during his campaign to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court. Now, he may have the chance.

President Joe Biden is eyeing at least three judges for an expected vacancy on the Supreme Court, and each of them would fulfill his campaign pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the nation’s highest court.

Opponents of abortion rights insist their work won't end even if the Supreme Court decides to dismantle the Roe v.

“Whom have I helped today?”.

In the latest setback for abortion rights in Texas, the Supreme Court has refused to speed up the ongoing court case over the state’s ban on most abortions.

"While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends," Sotomayor and Gorsuch said.

Go Wildcats!

The statement came after a report said that Gorsuch refused to wear a mask, despite a request from Chief Justice John Roberts for all justices to do so.

Gorsuch's refusal to wear a mask has led Sotomayor, who has diabetes and is at a higher risk from Covid, to attend proceedings remotely, the report said.

Gorsuch's refusal to wear a mask led Sotomayor, who has diabetes, to attend oral arguments virtually. The justices are all vaccinated and boosted.

Gorsuch's refusal to wear a mask led Sotomayor, who has diabetes, to attend oral arguments virtually. The justices are all vaccinated and boosted.

Anybody who regularly watches Supreme Court arguments is used to seeing testy moments But you don't have to be a keen observer these days to see that something out of the ordinary is happening.

Two justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer, appeared remotely due to apparent concerns about Covid-19 as Neil Gorsuch did not wear a mask.

Justice Sotomayor professed not to understand the distinction between federal authority and state police powers during oral arguments.

Supreme Court conservatives express skepticism of President Biden's mandate that employees be vaccinated for COVID-19.

'Every constitutional right is now at risk': Legal experts warn Supreme Court action on Texas abortion law could lead to copycats

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing abortion providers to challenge the restrictive Texas abortion law and dismisses a Justice Department case against the law. Here are excerpts from Friday's opinion.

Lawyers who argued for landmark LGBTQ rights cases — Obergefell v. Hodges and Lawrence v. Texas — were conflicted on the validity of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s argument.

The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, marks the most significant challenge to abortion rights in decades.