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The new plan was part of a piecemeal approach to student debt after the justices rejected a proposal last year that would have canceled more than $400 billion in loans. [...]

Missouri sought to sue New York under the court's ''original jurisdiction,'' which sometimes allows suits between states to be brought directly to the justices. The Supreme Court on Monday rejected [...]

Critics say the immunity ruling is flawed for reasons similar to those the court gave for overturning Roe, which had established a right to abortion. In the month since the [...]

As the Supreme Court veered to the right, David D. Cole oversaw hundreds of lawsuits against the Trump administration and helped secure more wins than losses before the justices. It [...]

The junior member of the court's six-justice conservative supermajority often questioned its approach and wrote important dissents joined by liberal justices. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, 52, is the youngest member [...]

Amid signs of dysfunction and disarray, Chief Justice John Roberts reasserted his authority, while the influence of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito waned. Former President Donald J. Trump had [...]

The court, which issued two major decisions on guns in the term that ended Monday, does not seem ready to return to the subject. The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday [...]

The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are at least 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds. The Supreme [...]

Three justices dissented in the case, which could affect more than two dozen youths sentenced to die in prison. Over the dissents of its three liberal members, the Supreme Court [...]

The justices unanimously returned two cases, which concerned state laws that supporters said were aimed at ''Silicon Valley censorship,'' to lower courts. Critics had said the laws violated the sites' [...]

The ruling could amplify the impact of a separate decision overturning the Chevron doctrine, which had required courts to defer to executive agencies' interpretations of statutes. The Supreme Court on [...]

The ruling makes a distinction between official actions of a president, which have immunity, and those of a private citizen. In dissent, the court's liberals lament a vast expansion of [...]

The ruling that the Justice Department misused a 2002 law in charging a pro-Trump rioter who entered the Capitol could have an impact on hundreds of other cases, including one [...]

A foundational 1984 decision had required courts to defer to agencies' reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes, underpinning regulations on health care, safety and the environment. The Supreme Court on Friday [...]

The court's strategy of avoidance and delay cannot last and may have been shaped by a desire to avoid controversy in an election year. Superficially, abortion rights had a good [...]

Common in executive agencies, such tribunals hear enforcement actions without juries -- a practice the court's conservative supermajority said violated the Constitution. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected one of [...]

Three states challenged the administration's ''good neighbor'' plan, meant to protect downwind states from harmful emissions. The Supreme Court temporarily put on hold on Thursday an Environmental Protection Agency plan [...]

The case, one of several this term on how the First Amendment applies to technology platforms, was dismissed on the ground that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue. The Supreme [...]

The court, which has limited the sweep of several anti-corruption laws, distinguished after-the-fact rewards from before-the-fact bribes. The Supreme Court limited the sweep of a federal law on Wednesday aimed [...]

A new study analyzed 50 years of friend-of-the-court briefs and found that abortion opponents were more relentless than their adversaries, with some reflected in the justices' opinions. When the Supreme [...]

The decision amounted to a retreat from what had been an unbroken series of major decisions expanding gun rights that started in 2008. The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that [...]

Sylvia Gonzalez, a Texas city councilwoman, said officials violated the First Amendment by arresting her after she criticized the city manager. A former Texas city councilwoman may pursue a lawsuit [...]

Even as the size of the court's docket has shrunk, it has deferred a larger share of its decisions to the very end of its term. The Supreme Court has [...]

The decision was unanimous but fractured in rationale, with several justices objecting to the majority's use of a history-based test. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a California lawyer's attempt [...]

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., once close allies, have embraced starkly different conceptions of the judicial role. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. [...]

The justices will soon decide whether to hear a case that could affect more than two dozen youths sentenced to die in prison. The U.S. Supreme Court has twice rebuked [...]

Donald Trump's promise to seek retribution challenges long-established norms. The election could hinge in part on what kind of justice system the country believes it has now and wants in [...]

Legal ethicists welcomed the fact that the justice gave reasons for staying on two Jan. 6 cases, a break from court tradition. But they said his rationale was open to [...]

''My wife is fond of flying flags,'' the justice wrote in a letter to members of Congress who had demanded he step down from two cases related to the Jan. [...]

In a new memoir, a retired federal appeals court judge who was once a leading candidate for the Supreme Court reflects on candor and independence. Had Al Gore won the [...]

The case concerned a constitutional puzzle: how to distinguish the roles of race and partisanship in drawing voting maps when Black voters overwhelmingly favor Democrats. The Supreme Court cleared the [...]

A decision against the agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, could have cast doubt on all of its regulations and enforcement actions. The Supreme Court rejected a challenge on Thursday [...]

A federal appeals court condemned the ''stark and egregious'' violation of Damon Landor's religious freedom. But it said he could not sue the prison officials. Damon Landor is a Rastafarian. [...]

In a commencement ceremony at a Catholic university, the justice said that fundamental principles were in peril at universities and American society. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. warned on Saturday [...]

In a public interview at a judicial conference, the justice used historical parallels and sports analogies to sketch out his views on the Supreme Court's past and future. As the [...]

Two Alabama women spent more than a year trying to reclaim vehicles they owned, which the police had confiscated after arresting their drivers on drug charges. The Supreme Court on [...]

The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds. The Supreme Court refused [...]

Oral arguments serve a crucial role at the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts said last week at Georgetown University. But they are not always what they seem. Just hours [...]

Thursday's Supreme Court hearing was memorable for its discussion of coups, assassinations and internments -- but very little about the former president's conduct. Before the Supreme Court heard arguments on [...]

Such a ruling would probably send the case back to a lower court and could delay any trial until after the November election. The Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared ready [...]

After the justices hear arguments on Thursday, how they decide may be just as important as what they decide. Most legal experts say that former President Donald J. Trump will [...]

The Supreme Court temporarily revived the regulations in August by a 5-to-4 vote after lower courts blocked them. The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a challenge to the [...]

The officer, Jatonya Muldrow, said she had been transferred to a less desirable position based on her sex. Lower courts ruled that she had failed to show concrete harm. The [...]

The question for the justices was whether a federal law prohibits not only before-the-fact bribes but also after-the-fact rewards. The Supreme Court seemed ready on Monday to limit the reach [...]

Three Supreme Court briefs from former military leaders and intelligence officials explore whether presidents may be prosecuted for ordering unlawful killings. ''It is clear that as president, I will be [...]

The justices will hear arguments on Tuesday in a case that could alter hundreds of prosecutions for the assault on the Capitol and help define its meaning. At first blush, [...]

The filing was the main submission from Jack Smith, the special counsel prosecuting the former president. The case will be argued on April 25. Jack Smith, the special counsel prosecuting [...]

I cover the Supreme Court. These days, the job can be relentless, so I mostly look for culture that is playful or profound, and sometimes both, to recover from the [...]

A federal judge ruled that a state voting district diluted the ability of Latino voters to elect their preferred candidates. The Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to reinstate a voting [...]

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to hear an appeal in her case, which, as one judge put it, ''focused from start to finish on Ms. Andrew's sex life.'' [...]