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They came in their thousands from near and far — men, women and children lined up on a Kentucky riverfront for the public hanging of a black man convicted of raping and killing an elderly white widow

During oral arguments on Monday, Justice Amy Coney Barrett raised a “quibble” about how much authority state law has over federal regulations on interstate pollution

Tennessean reporter Molly Davis joins CNN's Audie Cornish to talk about what's next after Tennessee's botched execution of death row inmate Christa Pike

A high-profile execution attempt in Nashville ended in chaos and raised urgent medical questions after Tennessee death row inmate Christa Gail Pike survived two separate doses of lethal pentobarbital, the Associated Press reported

Trump administration granted emergency request to overturn a lower court ban on rapid expulsions

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

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

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday declined to pause a $655.5 million judgment against the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization over attacks that killed and wounded Americans in Israel during the Second Intifada

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President Donald Trump ushered in the 250th anniversary of American independence on Friday with soaring rhetoric about American exceptionalism before veering into a darkly political speech with warnings about a sinister threat of communism that evoked one of the country’s ugliest chapters

In his speech at Mount Rushmore, the president lauds American exceptionalism while taking aim at domestic ‘radicals and extremists’

Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the 6-3 decision, which combined two cases, West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox

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 paperwork does not identify the performer, but Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny is known to have performed a series of shows on the island that month and the $4,333 gift she disclosed was provided by Rimas Entertainment, Bad Bunny's record label

US Supreme Court blocks firing of Fed governor

Instead, Donald Trump is now free to fire agency heads at will and to replace them with political loyalists, regardless of what Congress has said about it

In addition to its awful human toll, the decision allowing the T.P.S. terminations to go into effect highlights one of the more troubling mysteries of this era

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

One highly unusual exchange for the restrained and traditional atmosphere came Thursday, as the members of the nation’s highest court took the bench as usual to read a short summary of their decisions

Major decisions impacting asylum seekers and humanitarian protections for Haitians and Syrians could have far-reaching consequences for immigrants and their families

The Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a major blow to human rights litigation in United States courts, prompting a sharp dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who warned the ruling marks "yet another low point" in how the justices treat victims seeking accountability for abuses abroad

The United States’ newest execution method, nitrogen gas, appears headed toward a legal showdown amid a widening controversy over whether it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment

To get there, Ms. Chism, 65, left Mississippi before dawn, drove to Memphis and rode a bus five hours to Montgomery with her 8-year-old great-nephew Carson in tow

Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas attend President Trump’s inauguration in the Capitol Rotunda in 2025

Joseph Clifton Smith was convicted and sentenced to death for the brutal murder in 1997 of Durk Van Dam in Mobile County

Republicans currently lead redistricting efforts, with support from recent court decisions

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

That ruling came after two other appeals courts ruled the other way, overturning rulings that favored detainees who were denied bond hearings before immigration judges

When an investigation into a Virginia bank robbery went cold a few years back, local police turned to Google

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a unanimous Supreme Court on Wednesday in a ruling that keeps Michigan’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a portion of an aging Great Lakes pipeline in state court, dealing a setback to Canadian energy company Enbridge

The Supreme Court has long presented itself as a uniform group of justices, all sheathed in long black robes

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

In February 2016, though, the justices issued a short, cryptic ruling on an environmental policy from the Obama administration, days after receiving abbreviated briefs and without hearing oral arguments

While designed to be short-term, those orders have largely allowed Trump to move ahead — for now — with key parts of his sweeping agenda

Speaking to a packed auditorium of students and faculty at the University of Texas at Austin to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas, the Supreme Court's longest-serving justice, urged the nation to revisit the philosophical foundations of U.S. governance

Supreme Court lifts limits on L.A. immigration raids

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

Speaking Tuesday at the University of Kansas School of Law, Sotomayor revisited Kavanaugh's concurring opinion backing broader authority for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Los Angeles last year by the Trump administration

She was referring to the case of Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, in which Kavanaugh wrote an opinion framed as a concurrence to the unsigned majority ruling

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

Trump Aims to Upend Long-Held Citizenship Rules at Supreme Court

But fringe elements of American society have repeatedly tried to attack this fundamental rule

Justice Brett Kavanaugh sounded like a fired-up prosecutor last year as he shot off a withering series of nuts-and-bolts questions about how President Donald Trump would carry out his plan to rewrite of the way birthright citizenship has been understood in the United States for more than a century

Justice Samuel Alito broke with the Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday, filing the lone dissent in a case over whether a federal supervised‑release term can be automatically extended when a defendant absconds

The justices heard arguments in a legal dispute involving a policy called “metering” that the Republican president’s administration may seek to revive after it was dropped by Trump’s Democratic predecessor Joe Biden in 2021

Lower court declared Mississippi's law illegal

She was charged with felony misuse of information

Since he was confirmed by the Senate five days into President Donald Trump’s second term, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has supposedly overseen a trillion-dollar budget with a workforce of nearly 3 million military and civilian personnel

President Donald Trump crowed about the American military’s dominance over Iran in a midnight Truth Social post a few hours after he shared a nostalgic photo with his parents at the New York Military Academy

Liberal justices accused their colleagues of expanding use of the emergency docket again in two orders issued this week

The justices halted the state court ruling that had ordered New York’s redistricting commission to redraw the district held by Nicole Malliotakis that covers Staten Island and a small piece of Brooklyn

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

Melvin Trotter faces execution for 1986 murder of a grocer

By a 5-4 vote, the justices ruled against a Texas landlord, Lebene Konan, who alleges her mail was intentionally withheld for two years

President called some justices "fools and lapdogs"

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

So deeply embedded in the realm of reality television is Donald Trump’s presidency that trying to apply any orthodox diplomatic measures of win or loss to his rumbustious appearance in Davos this week seems superfluous