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But the justices kept blocking a provision that bars already-registered residents from voting by mail or for president until they prove their citizenship. The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Arizona, [...]

The order maintained halts by lower courts on federal rules prohibiting discrimination against transgender people in schools. The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily continued to block Education Department rules intended [...]

Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the wealthy conservative donor Harlan Crow's lawyer after records showed undisclosed flights between Hawaii and New Zealand with the Supreme Court justice in [...]

A rare glimpse into where the country's biggest legal cases unfold. The Supreme Court conducts its work largely out of public view, letting its opinions stand as one of the [...]

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 case is likely to have broad ramifications for how cities across the country respond to homelessness. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld an Oregon city's ban on homeless residents [...]

A majority of the justices voted to dismiss the case, reinstating a lower-court ruling that paused the state's near-total abortion ban. The ruling mirrored a version inadvertently posted a day [...]

The justices rejected a bankruptcy settlement maneuver that would have protected members of the Sackler family from civil claims related to the opioid epidemic. The Supreme Court said on Thursday [...]

A document posted briefly to the court's website suggested a majority of the justices would reinstate a lower-court ruling that paused the state's near-total abortion ban. The Supreme Court seems [...]

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 [...]

The move comes as states around the country have pushed to curtail transgender rights. The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider a Tennessee law that bans certain medical treatments [...]

The dispute, which was closely watched by experts, involved a one-time foreign income tax, but many saw it as a broader challenge to pre-emptively block Congress from passing a wealth [...]

The devices allow semiautomatic guns to fire more rapidly. They were banned after one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history, at a Las Vegas concert in 2017. [...]

A majority of the justices found that the government had fulfilled its duty to tell immigrants about their court dates, even when the information was incomplete. The Supreme Court sided [...]

A congressional committee released documents showing that Justice Clarence Thomas had not disclosed three private jet trips paid for by the Texas billionaire Harlan Crow. Justice Clarence Thomas never disclosed [...]

The decision does not eliminate efforts to restrict the availability of the pill. The Supreme Court on Thursday maintained access to a widely available abortion pill, rejecting a bid from [...]

The two justices were surreptitiously recorded at a Supreme Court gala last week by a woman posing as a Catholic conservative. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. told a woman posing [...]

The justice amended an earlier filing to include vacations to Bali and an exclusive California club paid for by the Texas billionaire Harlan Crow. Justice Clarence Thomas acknowledged on Friday [...]

In a letter to Democratic senators, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said that individual justices decide when to recuse. He declined to meet with the senators to discuss court [...]

The unanimous opinion, by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, found that the gun rights group had plausibly claimed a First Amendment violation. The Supreme Court sided with the National Rifle Association on [...]

In a conversation at Harvard, the justice spoke of her despair at some of the court's decisions, but she urged optimism and a focus on future generations. Some days, after [...]

News of a popular ''Stop the Steal'' symbol on the justice's front lawn led jurists and politicians to express concerns about coming court decisions. News of a ''Stop the Steal'' [...]

Judicial experts say an upside-down flag at the justice's home raises thorny questions about potential ethics violations and what circumstances require recusal from cases. The revelation that an upside-down American [...]

Louisiana had asked the justices to weigh in on a dispute over a new congressional map with a second majority-Black district in time for the election. The Supreme Court on [...]

The statement was among the few public remarks he has made since revelations that he had failed to report lavish gifts and travel from wealthy conservatives. Justice Clarence Thomas denounced [...]

The justices weighed whether a federal law aimed at protecting access to emergency medical care superseded Idaho's near-total abortion ban. The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided on Wednesday over whether [...]

A majority of the justices appeared skeptical of courts wading into the thorny policy questions around when local governments can punish people for sleeping and camping outdoors. A majority of [...]

A lawsuit by a group of homeless residents of a small Oregon town could reshape the way cities across the country deal with homelessness. Inside a warming shelter, Laura Gutowski [...]

The Idaho attorney general had asked the justices to move swiftly to let the state law, which would ban gender-affirming medical care for minors, go into effect. The Supreme Court [...]

Justice Clarence Thomas gave Crystal Clanton a home and a job after she left a conservative youth organization in controversy. Then the justice picked her for one of the most [...]

The parties in the fight over access to the abortion pill sharply disagree on whether anti-abortion doctors and groups can show they will suffer harm. The future of access to [...]

A majority of the justices questioned whether a group of anti-abortion doctors and organizations trying to sharply limit availability of the medication could show they suffered harm. A majority of [...]

Erin Hawley, a law professor and wife of Senator Josh Hawley, is arguing the Supreme Court case. It was 2014, and Erin Morrow Hawley was fighting against the egg-laying hens [...]

The National Rifle Association argued that a New York official violated the First Amendment by encouraging entities to break ties with the group after the Parkland mass shooting. A majority [...]

In a wide-ranging argument, the justices wrestled with the mechanics of gun triggers and the larger implications of the ban both for bump stock owners and the public. The Supreme [...]

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday about the Trump administration rule put in place by the A.T.F. after the Las Vegas massacre. A simple device that speeds up [...]

Crystal Clanton, who is close with the Thomas family, has said she does not remember sending the messages, which emerged in 2017. Justice Clarence Thomas recently hired a law clerk [...]

The justices denied an emergency request by a group of victims to pause the deal, allowing the settlement to proceed. The Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for a [...]

In a statement, the justice raised concerns that those with ''traditional religious views'' would be '''labeled as bigots and treated as such' by the government.'' Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. [...]

The filing was former President Donald J. Trump's last-ditch effort to press his claim of total immunity, which has been rejected by two lower courts. Former President Donald J. Trump [...]

The court rejected an emergency request to temporarily bar the military academy from using race in admissions while a lower-court lawsuit proceeds. The Supreme Court declined on Friday to temporarily [...]

A group of Colorado voters urged the Supreme Court to uphold a lower court decision blocking the former president from the state's primary ballot. A group of Colorado voters laid [...]

The state executed Kenneth Smith on Thursday using the untested method of nitrogen hypoxia after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. Alabama carried out the first American execution using nitrogen [...]

The case could have major implications for cities throughout the country grappling with a homelessness crisis. The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a challenge to cities using local [...]

Although the legal question was narrow, the argument reflected broader debates about the immigration system. The Supreme Court appeared divided on Monday over what counted as proper notice for the [...]

President Biden remembered the Supreme Court's first female justice as ''gracious and wise, civil and principled'' in a ceremony at Washington National Cathedral. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was remembered on [...]

The justices, former law clerks and the public gathered to remember Sandra Day O'Connor, who was the most powerful woman in the country during a critical time in American law. [...]

The justices announced that they would hear a case challenging a federal agency's approval of the commonly used pill. The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it would decide on [...]

The Supreme Court's liberal wing and more moderate conservatives seemed to be searching for a way toward a limited ruling on a tax law that affects foreign profits of American [...]