Supreme Court
The Supreme Court Again Made It Harder To Challenge State Laws That Restrict How People Can Vote
In a 6–3 decision, the court upheld Arizona voting laws that the challengers argued discriminated against Native American, Latino, and Black voters.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Will Keep The Federal Eviction Moratorium In Place While Legal Fights Go Forward
The moratorium, which has protected renters during the coronavirus pandemic, is currently set to expire at the end of July.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Ruled In Favor Of A Girl Who Said “Fuck Cheer” On Snapchat
A cheerleader originally sued her high school when it kicked her off the team for posting "fuck cheer" on Snapchat.
Stephanie K. Baer
The NCAA Lost A Major Supreme Court Case Over How Student-Athletes Are Compensated
While the NCAA can still restrict cash payments to players, the organization can no longer limit education-related benefits schools can give to them.
Sarah Mimms
Trump Wanted The Justice Department To Copy Texas's Failed Election Case But Add More Conspiracy Theories
House Democrats released documents on Tuesday about efforts by Trump and White House officials to get the Justice Department to wade into postelection fights.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Ruled Against LGBTQ Families In A Big Religious Freedom Case
The court sided with a Catholic agency that wouldn’t place foster kids with same-sex couples, but rejected a request to issue a broader ruling on nondiscrimination policies.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Saved Obamacare Again By Throwing Out A Republican Lawsuit
The 7–2 decision saw justices nominated by Donald Trump join with the court's liberals.
Paul McLeod
Anti-Abortion Activists Had A Plan To Get To The Supreme Court. It Worked.
The Supreme Court — now with a 6–3 conservative majority — will consider Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban during the next term.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Is Taking Up A Big Gun Rights Case For The First Time In More Than A Decade
The court’s conservative justices have signaled an interest in revisiting the scope of the Second Amendment.
Zoe Tillman
Biden Announced An Aggressive First Push To Diversify The Federal Courts
The White House announced judicial nominees who would break barriers if confirmed.
Zoe Tillman
Biden Is Considering History-Making Nominees For The Federal Courts
The FBI recently did a background check for a lawyer who would be the first American Muslim federal district judge, according to a source familiar with the process.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Has Now Officially Lost All Of His Postelection Challenges In The Supreme Court
Trump argued a case he’d filed in Wisconsin wasn’t moot even after Biden took office. The Supreme Court refused to hear it.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Says New York Can Get Eight Years Of Trump's Tax Returns
In a one-line order, the justices refused to pause a lower court decision that cleared the way for prosecutors to enforce a grand jury subpoena.
Zoe Tillman
Anti-Abortion Group Wants To Send Undercover Tapes To Supreme Court
An anti-abortion group wants to send secretly taped conversations from abortion clinic doctors to the Supreme Court. A restraining order now bars their release.
Dan Vergano
This Is How Families Are Reacting To The Supreme Court's Ruling On Spousal Visas
The judges' decision to back the government on minimum income thresholds was greeted with dismay, but there was some optimism among families with children.
Emily Dugan
Biden Was Against Packing The Supreme Court. A New Progressive Group Wants To Change His Mind.
A new coalition wants to build momentum on the left to add seats to the Supreme Court and undo Trump’s legacy on the bench.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Won't Face Legal Consequences For Holding Onto His DC Hotel And Other Business Interests While President
The Supreme Court dismissed cases accusing Trump of violating the US Constitution by refusing to divest from his businesses because he's no longer in office.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Refused To Interfere In The Election Before Biden Is Sworn In
The justices denied requests by Trump and his supporters to take up a group of failed election challenges before Inauguration Day.
Zoe Tillman
The President Actually Has Enormous Power To Pardon Basically Whomever He Wants
President Donald Trump's talk of pardons has raised a lot of questions about what he could do. But the reality is pretty clear: Presidential pardon power is expansive, with few limits established over time and courts generally siding with the president in any challenges to pardons issued.
Chris Geidner
Trump Forecast The Capitol Attack In A Warning To The Supreme Court In December
Trump and his allies have used the courts over the past two months to push voter fraud conspiracy theories that fueled Wednesday’s assault on the Capitol.
Zoe Tillman
Supreme Court Justices Can Get Vaccinated Now. The Rest Of The Courts Are On Their Own.
Judges across the country are urging state officials to consider the federal courts for vaccine priority lists.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Put Off Ruling On Trump’s Final Push To Use The Census To Target Undocumented Immigrants
The court’s conservative justices agreed with the administration that a legal challenge was “premature.” The liberal justices dissented.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Transformed The Federal Courts. Here’s What Biden Could Do.
Biden will inherit far fewer judicial vacancies than Trump did when he takes office, but liberals are pinning their hopes on a wave of Clinton-appointed judges stepping down.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Rejected Texas’s Last-Ditch Legal Challenge To Biden’s Win
The justices found that Texas lacked standing to sue other states that President-elect Joe Biden won.
Zoe Tillman
Here Are The Names Of 126 Members Of The House Who Refuse To Accept That Biden Won
These 126 House Republicans threw their support behind a Texas attempt to overturn the election results in key battleground states.
Stephanie K. Baer
The Supreme Court Denied A Republican Challenge To Joe Biden's Pennsylvania Win In A One-Sentence Order
The one-sentence order from the justices marked the latest in the string of defeats for Trump and his supporters in Pennsylvania.
Zoe Tillman
The Republican Lawsuit To Overturn Obamacare Seems Doomed At The Supreme Court
Liberal and conservative justices alike took shots at the GOP lawsuit Tuesday. Chief Justice John Roberts said it’s “not our job” to overturn the law.
Paul McLeod
Judges Are Rejecting Trump’s False Claims Of Shady Poll Practices After Looking At The Evidence
The lawsuits filed by Trump’s campaign since Election Day have bolstered the president’s false claims that it’s unlawful for states to keep counting ballots after Election Day.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Cannot Just “Go” To The Supreme Court To Fight Election Results. Here’s What Would Need To Happen To End Up There.
It took a month for Bush v. Gore to make its way through lower courts and reach the justices in 2000.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Made It Clear He Wants The Supreme Court To Shut Down Vote-Counting After Election Day
In his first rally of the last weekend of his reelection campaign, Trump insisted there would be “bedlam” if a winner is not decided on election night.
Kadia Goba
