Brett Kavanaugh

Mr. Flowers was transferred off death row in Parchman prison in Mississippi and released in December 2019, after nearly 23 years behind bars

Jon Stewart shreds 'criminally naive' GOP senator Susan Collins

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

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

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday cited a U.S. Supreme Court opinion, written last year by conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh, to defend immigration agents who stopped and questioned an American citizen in Illinois because he looked like their target

The emergency appeal will — once again — decide if Republicans can flip an additional House seat in the November midterm election

Jon Kyl, a longtime Republican lawmaker from Arizona who shaped landmark water policies in the U.S. West and guided the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has died

Donald Trump is boiling with frustration after a spate of political blows weakened his presumption of dominance in Washington and abroad

Steiner, a former chief executive of Waste Management, has spent much of the past year guiding the postal service through political turbulence and financial hardship

With Republicans currently holding a 53-47 majority, a Democratic victory in the November 3 midterm elections could dismantle Trump's capacity to advance judicial appointments once the newly elected Congress takes office next year

During his first term in office, the president appointed three conservative justices to the High Court—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett

His social media missive was just the latest in a long history of Trump assailing justices, particularly those he had nominated, who ruled against him on his administration's most prominent initiatives

It comes after a pitched court battle shortly before ballots begin going out for the pivotal November elections

Two legal fights stir confusion over which map should be used in Missouri elections

Democrat Senate nominee Troy Jackson released an ad Friday attacking Collins for supporting Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch, both of whom later joined the Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe v. Wade in the 2022 Dobbs decision

Democrat Senate nominee Troy Jackson released an ad Friday attacking Collins for supporting Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch, both of whom later joined the Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe v. Wade in the 2022 Dobbs decision

It would also require states to use tracking barcodes on ballot envelopes

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

Jim Banks will introduce legislation Monday aimed at ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants and birth tourists by defining them as children of "invaders" under federal law after a Supreme Court ruling last month dealt a setback to President Donald Trump’s executive order on the issue

Son of former president Joe Biden pays tribute to late GOP senator but laments his conversion to MAGA partisanship

Many Supreme Court commentators were surprised by the close 5-4 divide on the constitutional issue of birthright citizenship

In 2020, when the Supreme Court declared that transgender workers were covered by federal anti-discrimination law, the opinion authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch marked a legal breakthrough

In 2020, when the Supreme Court declared that transgender workers were covered by federal anti-discrimination law, the opinion authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch marked a legal breakthrough

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

Daily fine raises stakes in legal fight over confidential sources and government leaks

President Donald Trump and his advisors are looking for ways to prevent "birth tourism" following a Supreme Court ruling that upholds birthright citizenship

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

Mike Johnson learns SCOTUS denied Trump efforts to end birthright citizenship

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

Trump again does his groaning 'transgender weightlifter' impression in front of factory workers in Pennsylvania

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

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday set up another major Second Amendment ruling that could have ripple effects across multiple states which have restrictions on semi-automatic weapons

Alison is a senior news reporter covering US politics and legal news

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

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

Trump rants about communists after canceling affordable housing bill signing

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

US high court hands Bayer crucial victory over Roundup weedkiller

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

The 6-3 decision on Tuesday was the second in as many months in favour of US owners of Cuban property that was confiscated by the Communist government more than 65 years ago

Susan Collins over her vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and tries to capitalize on Collins’ insistence she does not regret it, even given Kavanaugh’s role in overturning Roe v. Wade

The nine justices and their law clerks are on tight, self-imposed deadlines to write and circulate final drafts of opinions in cases big and small

But his latest round of scandals has some Washington Democrats fantasizing about some highly unlikely scenarios that would let them avoid being stuck with him as their nominee in their top-target Senate race

Panel debates candidate quality in Trump era

Justices backed another Mississippi inmate in 2019

Instead, Mr. McMaster’s executive order was consistent with his past statements: that the General Assembly needed to fully debate and examine the matter of redistricting before the midterms in November

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has slammed Republican-led states’ efforts to redraw their congressional maps to favor their party as “evil incarnate”

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has slammed Republican-led states’ efforts to redraw their congressional maps to favor their party as “evil incarnate”

Right on cue, he runs into Trump-appointed supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh (Matt Damon), who orders his usual: three Buds and six Jamesons (“a six-three decision”)

An explosive exchange between three conservative justices and liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson late Monday underscored a tension that has developed in voting cases as the court runs headlong into an election-heavy docket that will have far-reaching implications for the midterms

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

The court in a series of decisions since 2013 has limited the reach of this law, making it more difficult ​to hold American corporations legally liable for human rights abuses

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

The federal agency responsible for policing the nation’s airwaves and telecommunications companies relies on hefty fines to enforce rules designed to protect consumer privacy, combat robocalls and regulate broadcasting

Fey was speaking on Saturday at the History Talks event at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, organised to mark the 250th independence anniversary of the US, where she reflected on her nine-year tenure on the live sketch comedy variety show