Elena Kagan

At the center of the dispute is a lawsuit brought by officials in Boulder, Colorado, against ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy

The Supreme Court launched its new term Monday with a blockbuster oral argument over whether federal or state laws and courts should handle civil lawsuits against energy companies for alleged climate change harms

The nine justices will hear oral arguments in roughly 60 cases between now and late April

The term comes as the justices confront dwindling trust in the court, as some polls suggest Americans find it to be increasingly political

Those intense and abbreviated proceedings, often yielding nominally temporary but vastly consequential rulings, have changed the way the justices work

It’s too late for any changes before November, but critics fear an unreliable database could put millions of Americans at risk

Supreme Court Turns Away Surrogate Appeal in Messy Custody Fight

Ron DeSantis (R) offered asylum to the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial after it was revealed the juror has a history of domestic abuse allegations

Lindsay Clancy's trial was the latest case in the long, quixotic history of the insanity defense

President Donald Trump cleared one hurdle yesterday on his quest to impose sweeping new restrictions on mail-in voting

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan offered a glimpse into the atmosphere inside the courtroom during the rare moment earlier this year when President Donald Trump attended oral arguments in the birthright citizenship case, the first known time a sitting president has done so

Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett will make a rare appearance before Congress Tuesday, weeks after the end of a historic term

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Graham had an outsized role in the high-profile in questioning many of the current justices

They will appear before House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees

The testimony will be the first by sitting justices in Congress since 2019

The Supreme Court term that ended Tuesday left almost everybody at least a little unhappy

The Supreme Court just wrapped up a term that yielded significant rulings in cases involving race and discrimination that could have lasting effects on U.S. politics and society

The Justices ruled 6-3 to uphold birthright citizenship, striking down President Trumps executive order that declared that children born to people who are in the US illegally or temporarily are not American citizens

After berating the Supreme Court for much of the year — while simultaneously inviting some of the justices over to the White House for dinner — President Donald Trump’s final assessment of the court’s momentous term this week felt something like a ceasefire

SC boosts presidential control, weakens voting protections, backs immigration clampdown

This comes after Trump had signed an executive order on the first day of his presidency decreeing those born to parents in the US illegally or on temporary visas could not automatically become Americans

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The decision could reshape more than 150 years of legal precedent and determine whether children born on U.S. soil automatically become American citizens

The pro-AI movement is splintering over a defining question: whether national security concerns outweigh the need to keep America's AI companies ahead of Chinese rivals

Trump rants about communists after canceling affordable housing bill signing

Justice Samuel Alito strongly rebuked his colleagues on Monday, penning a blistering dissent that labeled the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to restrict digital police dragnets an “irresponsible escapade” that leaves law enforcement in the dark

The 6-3 ruling reversed decisions by federal judges that had halted the administration from closing Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 people from Haiti and 6,100 from Syria

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued an 8–1 ruling authored by Justice Clarence Thomas clarifying when companies can face liability for using property confiscated by Cuba after the 1959 revolution, a decision that could shape a wave of litigation tied to long-standing U.S. claims

The reason was that his district had been erased around him

Alabama's primaries are a week away, but the state could force a do-over for voting on U.S. House races

Chief Justice John Roberts addressed public perception of the Supreme Court during a recent conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania

As the Supreme Court was barreling toward the final weeks of its term last year, Chief Justice John Roberts made a rare public appearance to defend his colleagues from criticism that they were all too eager to kick decades-old precedent to the curb

This week's Supreme Court ruling weakening the Voting Rights Act has nullified some of the Democratic resistance that kept many states from pursuing extreme gerrymanders this election cycle

Though half of the residents of Richmond, Virginia, were Black, only 0.67% of the city’s contracts had gone to MBEs because its prime contractors, like JA Croson, were not doing business with minority-owned firms

Padilla has more bona fides than most of his Democratic colleagues when it comes to election law — he served six years as California’s secretary of state and is now the highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Rules committee which oversees federal elections

Ex-AG Eric Holder reacts to SCOTUS ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act: Republicans 'want to hold onto power at all costs'

Hundreds of thousands of migrants are placing a last-ditch bet on Wednesday that the Supreme Court will side with them over former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

In total, Democrats have redrawn or secured maps that could net about 10 favorable seats, while Republicans are positioned for roughly nine, a near draw that assumes past voting patterns hold this November, according to Associated Press analysis

But now a bombshell new book is exposing the secret goings-on behind the scenes, including scathing tales about Justices from their former staff

The high court sided with the Trump administration in about two dozen decisions last year, often lifting the orders of lower court judges who found their policies were likely illegal on everything from immigration to steep federal funding cuts

Trump, who had suggested he wanted to attend a session last year when the court weighed his sweeping tariffs but ultimately abstained, appeared in his signature dark suit and red tie a few minutes before arguments began over his contentious executive order that would limit birthright citizenship

Lower courts upheld ban as professional conduct regulation

The president must confront a 1952 federal law, the possibility that millions will lose their citizenships, stateless foundlings and a fluid future

Lower court declared Mississippi's law illegal

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan authored a new unanimous opinion in the case Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi

Jackson, often a vocal dissenter in those cases, forcefully aired her critique of the court's actions in a rare public appearance with Kavanaugh at an event for lawyers and judges held at the federal courthouse in Washington

This order temporarily blocks a state law that prohibited automatic parental notification when students change their pronouns or gender expression at school

During oral arguments in the case on Monday, a majority of justices on the court appeared to lean toward a narrow ruling in favor of a Texas man who argued he shouldn’t have been charged with a crime because he owned a gun and smoked marijuana a few times a week

The extraordinary number of dueling opinions in the Supreme Court’s tariff case, laying bare divisions among the justices, also became the basis for a punch line

In an 81-page ruling, Judge Brian E. Murphy, a Biden appointee, criticized what he said were secret deportations of illegal immigrants to countries other than their home nation without proper notice or chance to appeal

A long-running lawsuit claiming that a private prison contractor broke federal and Colorado law by forcing immigration detainees to work moved closer to trial Wednesday after the Supreme Court unanimously rejected a bid by the company to toss out the case

The case centered on whether a private company performing work under a federal contract can immediately appeal a lower court’s rejection of its claim to “derivative sovereign immunity,” which can shield contractors from liability when acting under government authority

President Trump greeting Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at last year’s address to Congress

Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade and Harold Ford Jr. urged the president to avoid harping on the conservative-leaning high court’s Friday ruling, which determined that his sweeping tariffs on both enemies and allies were unlawfully imposed under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act

He may need a distraction even bigger than bombing Iran and releasing secret files on UFOs and aliens

In an opinion running more than twice as long as the 21 pages Chief Justice John Roberts used to resolve the case, Justice Neil Gorsuch took his colleagues on the left and the right to task for their views of the doctrine, which stipulates that Congress “speak clearly” when it is granting a president power to deal with matters of “major” economic or political significance

In a 6-3 ruling Friday, the high court struck down President Donald Trump’s global tariff authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)

He further announced plans to impose an additional 10 percent tariff through alternative legal channels, signaling a renewed push for aggressive trade enforcement

Chief Justice John Roberts brought the drama Friday as he ascended the courtroom bench to declare — at long last — President Donald Trump’s tariffs unlawful

For 10 gripping minutes, he methodically laid out the case against Trump’s signature economic initiative, one that has yielded billions of dollars for the national treasury yet roiled world markets and hit US consumers hard

The scope of that unusual exception will be put to the test Wednesday when the court hears oral arguments in the case of Lisa Cook, a Fed governor Trump attempted to fire over the summer following allegations that she had committed mortgage fraud by reporting two different homes as her primary residence

The scope of that unusual exception will be put to the test Wednesday when the court hears oral arguments in the case of Lisa Cook, a Fed governor Trump attempted to fire over the summer following allegations that she had committed mortgage fraud by reporting two different homes as her primary residence