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If the Supreme Court decides to overturn or gut the decision that legalized abortion, some fear that it could undermine other precedent-setting cases, including civil rights and LGBTQ protections.

After hours of public arguments, the Supreme Court's justices will now embark on a private debate over what to do about possibly drastic abortion limits for pregnant women in the U.S. The justices will talk it over this week and hold a preliminary vote.

The Supreme Court has been asked in arguments to overturn a nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years.

The Supreme Court has turned away appeals from Volkswagen that sought to stop state and local lawsuits related to the 2015 scandal in which the automaker was found to have rigged its vehicles to cheat U.S. diesel emissions tests.

The Supreme Court seems ready to strike down a restrictive New York gun permitting law.

Dozens of people attended an open carry rally led by Joey Gibson, leader of the Patriot Prayer group, on May 20, 2018, in Seattle. Karen Ducey/Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Nov. 3, 2021, on a clear question: Does the constitutional right to possess a gun extend outside the home? The answer may alter gun regulations in many states. The crux of the issue before the court is captured by a debate that Thomas Jefferson had with himself at the time of the founding. When Jeffer

In only a handful of cases has the Supreme Court moved as quickly as it is in the fight over the Texas law that bans most abortions.

The Supreme Court has allowed a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in effect for now.

The Biden administration is looking to the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to halt a restrictive Texas law that has banned most abortions since September.

A commission tasked with studying potential changes to the Supreme Court is releasing a first look at its review.

The draft came as the Supreme Court is set to consider pivotal cases that center on politically polarizing issues, including abortion, guns and religion.

The Supreme Court seems inclined to allow Kentucky’s Republican attorney general to continue defending a restriction on abortion rights that had been struck down by lower courts.

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Several of the justices asked why the detainee, Abu Zubaydah, couldn't testify himself about his treatment at a CIA secret detention facility.

The session also marked the first time Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the newest member of the court and the third appointee of former President Donald Trump, heard arguments in person.

The court's new term begins Monday.

Abortion, guns and religion top the Supreme Court's new term.

The future of abortion rights is in the hands of a conservative Supreme Court that's beginning a new term on Monday.

The court's new term begins Monday.

To some observers, the Supreme Court is facing the most serious threat to its legitimacy since its decision in Bush v.

Three Supreme Court justices delivered the same plea in rapid succession in recent days: Don’t view justices as politicians. The call by justices Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer and Amy Coney Barrett for the public not to see court decisions as just an extension of partisan politics isn’t new. The outcome in each could fracture the court along ideological lines, with the court's six conservative justices chosen by Republican presidents prevailing over its three liberals nominated by Democrats.

The Supreme Court is having a credibility crisis as fewer and fewer Americans believe that it is a nonpartisan, unbiased institution.

"If the justices have to defend themselves from being partisan, that's already a problem in and of itself," one expert told Insider.

Haiti's chief prosecutor on Tuesday asked a judge to charge Prime Minister Ariel Henry in the slaying of the president and asked officials to bar him from leaving the country, a move that could further destabilize a country that seemed to be calming after turmoil that followed the assassination and a recent major earthquake.

Former Detroit police Chief James Craig formally announces his campaign for governor, but not before protesters derail his kickoff event and force him to move (Sept. 14)

Since the early days of the Presidential campaign of 2020, a quiet speculation swirled about then candidate Joe Biden’s mental fitness for office. Now eight months into office, that quiet speculation has turned into serious doubt about the judgment of President Joe Biden. A history of plagiarism, gaffes, and informal anecdotes that proved untrue, has now combined with serious questions about cognitive decline - all suggesting that someone other than Joe Biden is pulling the strings at the White House. Doug McKelway reports.

Abortion providers are urging the Supreme Court to reject Mississippi’s 15-week prohibition on most abortions, saying a decision to uphold it would “invite states to ban abortion entirely.”.

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"If the Democrats can do it, the Republicans can do it," Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told NPR's Nina Totenberg.

But the justice was philosophical about the outcome: "I wrote a dissent — and that's the way it works," he said. The decision was part of what court watchers call the "shadow docket."

In an interview with NPR, the 83-year-old said: "When exactly I should retire, or will retire, has many complex parts to it. I think I'm aware of most of them, and I ... will consider them."

The return to in-person proceedings was announced more than a year after the coronavirus pandemic forced the Supreme Court to hear cases over the phone.

The justices should have blocked an unconstitutional Texas antiabortion law. But they weren’t sending a signal by letting it stand for now.

Chief Justice Roberts, 3 other dissenters slam colleagues for hastily rewarding Texas 'bounty hunter' abortion ban scheme

The Texas law bans all abortions in the state after six weeks of pregnancy. That is well before many women even know they are pregnant, and is at odds with the Supreme Court's precedents

President Joe Biden is denouncing the Supreme Court’s decision not to block a new Texas law banning most abortions in the state.

Stephen Breyer hints at retiring from the Supreme Court

The court said an eviction moratorium extension would have to come from Congress.

Under the Trump-era program, the U.S. returned 70,000 non-Mexican asylum-seekers to Mexico, instructing them to wait there for their court hearings.

The Supreme Court says the Biden administration likely violated federal law in trying to end a Trump-era program that forces people to wait in Mexico while seeking asylum in the U.S. With three liberal justices in dissent, the high court refused Tuesday to block a lower court ruling ordering the administration to reinstate the program informally known as Remain in Mexico.

The Supreme Court is blocking part of New York’s moratorium on evictions, put into effect because of the coronavirus pandemic, less than a month before it is supposed to expire anyway.

President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are putting judges on federal trial and appellate courts at a much faster clip than Biden’s recent predecessors.

The Supreme Court will hear a blockbuster abortion case next term from Mississippi. Will conservatives stick together to overturn Roe v. Wade?

Facing pressure from some Democrats to step aside, liberal Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer says he hasn’t decided on his retirement plans.

Breyer is facing pressure to step down. Progressive groups and some congressional lawmakers want Biden to appoint his successor.

Breyer has been under pressure from liberal groups to step down and allow President Biden to name a successor.

Liberals worry Biden may only have limited opportunity to appoint a justice

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he wants his chamber to vote on budget and infrastructure legislation before lawmakers break for an August recess.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Friday he wants his chamber to vote on pivotal budget and infrastructure legislation before lawmakers break for their August recess, and warned he may delay that summer break to allow more time for work on President Joe Biden's top domestic goals. In a letter to his colleagues, Schumer, D-N.Y., also said Democrats “stand ready to expeditiously fill any potential vacancies on the Supreme Court should they arise,” a clear reference to the possibility that liberal-leaning Justice Stephen Breyer, 82, might retire. Schumer's plans underscore the priority his party is giving to Biden's push to pump trillions of dollars into building roads, pipelines and other infrastructure projects, as well as bolstering health care, services for families, programs combating climate change and other initiatives.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos GettyFor years, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg batted away pleas for her to retire from the nation’s highest court while Democrats controlled the White House and the Senate, saying that concerns about her health and age were much ado about nothing.“Tell me who the president could have nominated this spring,” she told a reporter in 2014, “that you would rather see on the court than me?”Court-watchers know what happened next: Democrats lost the

Justice Breyer, 82, appeared to signal that he has no plans to retire as he hired four new clerks for the court's fall term.

An unusually agreeable Supreme Court term has ended with conservative-driven decisions on voting rights and charitable-donor disclosures.

An unusually agreeable Supreme Court term ended with conservative-driven decisions on voting rights and charitable-donor disclosures that offered a glimpse of what the coming years of the right's dominance could look like for the nation's highest court. But ideological divisions were not often on display through much of the year.

“Who am I to tell somebody to retire? I feel fine. I’m still able to play 18 holes in the morning, 18 holes in the afternoon and have a little libations for lunch,” U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said Thursday.

The Supreme Court is wrapping up its first all-virtual term, with decisions expected in a key case on voting rights and another involving information that California requires charities to provide about donors.

The Supreme Court is wrapping up its first all-virtual term, with decisions expected in a key case on voting rights and another involving information that California requires charities to provide about donors. The court's last day of work Thursday before its summer break also could include a retirement announcement, although the oldest of the justices, 82-year-old Stephen Breyer, has given no indication he intends to step down this year. The courtroom is closed to the public because of the pandemic and the justices heard 58 arguments via telephone over eight months.

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They want President Biden to appoint a young liberal to replace the 82-year-old justice. But Breyer has publicly shown no indication of whether he will stay or go.

The end of the current Supreme Court term is coming up, and Stephen Breyer is the justice to watch.

After writing two of the Supreme Court’s biggest decisions this year, Stephen Breyer could say he’s come to a fitting end of nearly 27 years as a justice and announce his retirement. Breyer has given no indication he plans to retire at the end of the court’s term, set for Thursday. Breyer and O'Connor were close on the court, employing similar approaches to their work, though she was generally more conservative.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the federal government can detain people who repeatedly enter the country illegally while their asylum hearings play out in court.

The Supreme Court has sided with a pipeline company in a dispute with New Jersey over land the company needs for the natural gas pipeline.

The Supreme Court has revived claims of excessive force against St. Louis police officers in a case in which a homeless man died after being restrained in handcuffs and leg shackles.

A closely watched voting rights dispute from Arizona is among five cases standing between the Supreme Court and its summer break.

A closely watched voting rights dispute from Arizona is among five cases standing between the Supreme Court and its summer break.

The high court ruled 8-1 in favor of the student, Brandi Levy.

The California law allowed unions to access farms to meet employees. Two businesses told the high court that access was a taking of private property.

The 8-1 ruling left unresolved the broader question of when schools may regulate off-campus speech.

The court voted 8-1 in favor of a 14-year-old high school freshman when she expressed her disappointment over not making the cheer team.

The Supreme Court has ruled that a Pennsylvania public school wrongly suspended a student from cheerleading over her vulgar social media post.

Amid calls for Justice Stephen Breyer to step down, the legal scholar Noah Feldman considers politics, partisanship, and the Court.

The Supreme Court again upheld Obamacare, a major victory for Democrats and what could be the final blow to any court challenges to the law.

Justice Breyer will be 83 in August.

The court ruled 7-2 that the red states and two individuals who brought the dispute do not have the legal standing.

The court ruled 7-2 that the red states and two individuals who brought the dispute do not have the legal standing.

The 7-2 decision threw out the challenge to the law, saying Texas and other objecting GOP-dominated states were not required to pay anything under the mandate provision and thus lacked standing.

The case, filed by a coalition of states led by Texas, challenged the "individual mandate" provision of the Affordable Care Act.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against Texas and other Republican-led states seeking to strike down Obamacare in its latest high court test.

The Senate has confirmed the first appellate court judge of President Joe Biden’s tenure.

The Supreme Court says it won’t take up a case that asked it to decide whether it’s sex discrimination for the government to require only men to register for the draft when they turn 18.

The Supreme Court has ruled that tribal police officers can stop and search non-Indians on tribal lands for potential violations of state or federal law.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer says he remains optimistic that America’s system of democracy will continue to work even though the country may be increasingly divided along partisan lines.

The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from a Missouri death row inmate who is seeking execution by firing squad.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg moved slowly in her last years on the Supreme Court.

Crack cocaine trafficking kingpins convicted more than a decade ago can ask courts to reduce their prison terms under a 2018 federal law.

An unusual coalition of Supreme Court justices has joined to rule in favor of an immigrant fighting deportation.

A wary Supreme Court has weighed whether public schools can discipline students for things they say off campus.

The first Senate hearing for President Joe Biden’s judicial nominations featured two African American nominees for appeals court openings.

The Supreme Court appears likely to put a stop to California’s practice of collecting the names and addresses of top donors to charities.

Before the Supreme Court this week is an argument over whether public schools can discipline students over something they say off-campus.

The Supreme Court seems inclined to say that hundreds of millions of dollars in coronavirus relief money should benefit Alaska Natives, rather than be spread more broadly among Native American tribes around the U.S. The justices were hearing arguments Monday in a case involving the massive pandemic relief package passed last year and signed into law by then-President Donald Trump.

The Supreme Court is telling California that it can’t enforce coronavirus-related restrictions that have limited home-based religious worship including Bible studies and prayer meetings.

President Joe Biden has ordered a study of adding seats to the Supreme Court, creating a commission that will spend the next 180 days examining the incendiary political issues of expanding the court and instituting term limits for its justices.

Justice Stephen Breyer is telling liberal advocates of big changes at the Supreme Court, including expanding the number of justices, to think “long and hard” about what they’re proposing.

The Supreme Court is siding with Google in a copyright dispute with Oracle.

A Supreme Court case being argued this week amid March Madness could erode the difference between elite college athletes and professional sports stars. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed sympathetic to college athletes in a dispute with the NCAA over rules limiting their education-related compensation. Under current NCAA rules, students cannot be paid, and the scholarship money colleges can offer is capped at the cost of attending the school. A ruling for the former players would not necessarily mean an immediate infusion of cash to current college athletes. In 1984, the high court rejected NCAA rules restricting the broadcast of college football.

People view the Supreme Court building from behind security fencing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sunday, March 21, 2021, after portions of an outer perimeter of fencing were removed overnight to allow public access. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court is siding with a New Mexico woman who was shot by police as she drove away from them, in a case that will allow more excessive force lawsuits against police to go forward. “The question in this case is whether a seizure occurs when an officer shoots someone who temporarily eludes capture after the shooting. She claimed they used excessive force, making the shooting an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment. A lower court ruled for officers and dismissed the case; an appeals court agreed.

The Supreme Court appears ready to side with two California agriculture businesses that want to bar labor organizers from their property. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court appeared ready Monday to side with two California agriculture businesses that want to bar labor organizers from their property, a case that could be another blow to unions. The justices were hearing arguments in a case involving a California labor regulation put in place in 1975, following the efforts of labor leader Cesar Chavez. The regulation grants unions access to farms and other agriculture businesses in order to organize workers for up to three hours per day, 120 days per year. California says union organizers use the regulation “sparingly,” only five times in the 2019-2020 fiscal year and 24 times in 2018-2019.

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2018, file photo, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer sits with fellow Supreme Court justices for a group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON – Forgive progressives who aren't looking forward to the sequel of their personal “Nightmare on First Street," a Supreme Court succession story. Other liberal voices have said Breyer should retire when the court finishes its work for the term, usually by early summer. Among the names being circulated are California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger, U.S. District Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and U.S. District Court Judge Michelle Childs. Breyer's departure wouldn't do anything to change the conservatives' 6-3 edge on the Supreme Court.

But it's unclear when in-person arguments might resume or what, if anything, might change when they do. Ultimately, the justices settled on arguments by telephone — rejecting video for security reasons — and heard their first phone arguments in May. And it’s still unclear what exactly happened on day three of telephone arguments when listeners thought they heard a toilet flush. Freiman's clients, who are in Germany and would not have attended in-person arguments, were able to listen in real time. The court's marshal begins telephone arguments with the traditional cry of “Oyez!