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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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The justices weighed whether a federal law aimed at protecting access to emergency medical care superseded Idaho's near-total abortion ban.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 group of homeless people in a small Oregon city challenged local laws banning sleeping in public. The case has broad implications for homelessness policy throughout the country. The Supreme [...]

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 [...]

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 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 justices' questions reflected the tension between the practical effect of unraveling the settlement and broader concerns about whether the Sacklers should be granted such wide-ranging immunity. The Supreme Court [...]

The code does not specify how the rules would be enforced or by whom. The Supreme Court issued an ethics code on Monday after a series of revelations about undisclosed [...]

The arguments focused on whether the activist, Deborah Laufer, has the right to sue a Maine hotel, even though she did not plan to stay there. The Supreme Court wrangled [...]

The justices heard arguments about how to interpret part of the law aimed at reducing prison sentences for people convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes. In its first argument of [...]

The letter is the latest push by Democratic lawmakers to amend a system in which all cases filed in a particular geographic region are assigned to only one judge. Senator [...]

Even as Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared to agree over the policy's aim, they harshly criticized each other's conclusions on what to do. In an extraordinary exchange [...]

At issue in the case was whether a law aimed at keeping Native American adoptees within tribes is constitutional. The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 1978 law aimed at [...]

In written testimony sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the retired conservative judge J. Michael Luttig called for new ethics rules for Supreme Court justices. WASHINGTON -- A prominent conservative [...]

Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, called on the chief judge of the Northern District of Texas to end a system that allows for judge-shopping. WASHINGTON -- Senator Chuck Schumer [...]

Senators Angus King and Lisa Murkowski introduced the bill after recent revelations about Justices Thomas and Gorsuch. WASHINGTON -- Two senators introduced a bipartisan bill on Wednesday aimed at forcing [...]

The drug will remain widely available as the justices extended their deadline to Friday on whether to uphold the F.D.A.'s approval of the pill. WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on [...]

One federal judge said the F.D.A.'s approval of the drug mifepristone was invalid, while another federal judge ordered the agency to keep the pill available. The legal fallout is just [...]

Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk issued a preliminary ruling in a closely watched Texas case that could make it harder for patients to get abortions throughout the country. Judge Matthew J. [...]

The change comes as members of Congress have called for the justices to be held to ethics standards similar to those for the executive and legislative branches. WASHINGTON -- Supreme [...]

Byline: Wendy Ruderman, and Abbie VanSickle, The Marshall Project RAINBOW CITY, Ala. - Tiara Helm, 17, swayed and danced along with hundreds of concertgoers inside a theater in this small [...]

MODESTO, Calif. -- After California changed its murder laws last fall, Neko Wilson was the first man to walk free. Mr. Wilson, 37, had been facing the death penalty for [...]

SACRAMENTO -- Late in the evening on Jan. 27, 2004, four teenagers broke into an elderly neighbor's house in the Southern California town of Perris, looking for cash. One of [...]

Byline: COLLEEN JENKINS; ABBIE VANSICKLE A Tampa man will get a new trial because he didn't get to confront the crime lab technician who conducted tests for his case. By [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE TAMPA -- In the constant battle against underage drinking, Hillsborough County sheriff's officials have a new target: grownups. With graduations and end-of-school parties approaching, sheriff's officials said [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Most of the state leadership for the Latin Kings gang was behind bars Monday, following a weekend raid in South Tampa, according to law enforcement officials.'This is [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE (ran 4* edition of Metro & State) TAMPA - In his two years in the United States, Mohsin Teladia never felt uncomfortable over his religion. That is, [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE A suspicious package at the Port of Tampa, a menacing criminal on a ship and, at the same time, a reported explosion at a fuel facility.Not to [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE A frightening moment for a young girl helped patch a hole in state law.In August, a man tried to lure 11-year-old Sonia Acevedo into his truck by [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Deputy U.S. Marshal Lisa Alfonso is tense, her hand hovering over her gun.It's just before dawn on a Saturday, and the sky grows light. Soon, she knows, [...]

Byline: ABBIE VANSICKLE Law enforcement officials say two men, one from Hernando County and one from Citrus, sold and shuttled cocaine between the two counties. The arrests of Jason Rodney [...]