Supreme Court
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
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
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
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
The Texas Supreme Court Won’t Toss Out 100,000 Drive-Thru Votes In The State’s Most Populous County, But A Federal Case Is Pending
Republicans in Texas are seeking to invalidate ballots cast in Harris County through a curbside voting program.
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
The Supreme Court Rejected Trump’s Efforts To Force North Carolina To Toss Out Ballots That Arrive After Election Day
The court’s newest member, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was sworn in this week, did not participate in the decision.
Kendall Taggart
The Supreme Court’s Conservative Justices Warned Of “Serious Post-Election Problems” In Pennsylvania
The court denied a request by state Republicans to rush a decision in the latest challenge to the state’s Nov. 6 deadline to accept absentee ballots.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Gave Republicans A Win In Wisconsin, Ruling That Ballots That Arrive After Election Day Won’t Count
The court voted 5–3 to leave in place Wisconsin’s Election Day deadline for absentee ballots to come in. Democrats argued that would disenfranchise potentially tens of thousands of voters.
Zoe Tillman
Republicans Have Succeeded In Putting Amy Coney Barrett On The Supreme Court
Barrett deepens the court’s conservative wing to 6–3. She was sworn in Monday night at the White House.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Will Let Alabama Ban Drive-Up Voting For People With Disabilities During The Pandemic
Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused her conservative colleagues of getting in the way of local election officials “ready and willing to help vulnerable voters.”
Zoe Tillman
Republicans Moved Amy Coney Barrett One Step Closer To The Supreme Court After Democrats Boycotted The Vote
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve Barrett’s nomination. The final vote on her confirmation is expected Monday.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Will Let Pennsylvania Count Ballots Received After Election Day, Rejecting A Republican Challenge
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. joined with the court's more liberal wing in rejecting a challenge by Republicans to a longer absentee voting timeline.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Is Allowing The Trump Administration To End The Census Count Early
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the only member of the court who wrote a dissent, saying the "harms associated with an inaccurate census are avoidable and intolerable."
David Mack
The First Day Of Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court Hearing Wasn't Really About Her At All
Democrats focused on the fate of the Affordable Care Act while both parties relitigated fights over Merrick Garland and Brett Kavanaugh.
Zoe Tillman
How The Supreme Court Could Overturn Roe v. Wade
More than a dozen cases are just one step away from the Supreme Court. They could allow the court to overrule Roe — or to restrict abortion for hundreds of thousands of people.
Addy Baird
The Republican Texas Supreme Court Ruled Almost 2 Million Voters Can't Be Sent Mail-In Ballot Applications
Harris County is the most populous county in Texas and is considered a stronghold for Democrats, who decried the decision as anti-democratic.
David Mack
The Supreme Court Warned Against Changing Voting Rules Near Election Day And Then Did It Anyway
The justices reinstated South Carolina’s requirement that absentee voters have a witness sign their ballot. Sen. Lindsey Graham is in a close reelection race there.
Zoe Tillman
What Happens If A Presidential Candidate Dies Near The Election? The Supreme Court Predicted “Turmoil” And Had No Answers.
In a July decision, the justices didn’t resolve what would happen if a nominee died or became incapacitated before the Electoral College votes.
Zoe Tillman
White House Officials Flouted Coronavirus Guidance At Their Supreme Court Celebration. It Was Likely A Superspreader Event.
“I hope this serves as an important reminder that the virus doesn’t discriminate, that you can catch it whoever you are, and it’s a risk and it’s real,” one expert said of the White House cluster.
Peter Aldhous
A Senator Wrote An Impassioned Letter To Her Colleagues About Her IVF Treatment And Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee
The letter is in response to reports that Judge Amy Coney Barrett publicly supported an organization that believes in vitro fertilization should be criminalized.
Ema O'Connor
Republicans Are Moving Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Nomination Faster Than Any Supreme Court Nominee Since 1975
Republicans have scheduled a hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett for Oct. 12, just over two weeks after Trump announced her nomination.
Zoe Tillman
Here’s How Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s Newest Supreme Court Nominee, Has Ruled On Abortion, Immigration, And Policing
Barrett has consistently sided with her fellow Republican appointees on the bench.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Seat On The Supreme Court
Barrett’s opposition to abortion is expected to play a major role in the fight over her nomination.
Zoe Tillman
8 Women On Why They Went To The Supreme Court Vigils After Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Death
In the days since the justice's death, people have placed flowers and candles outside the Supreme Court building.
Molly Hensley-Clancy
Republicans Say They'll Vote On Trump's Supreme Court Nominee Even If He Loses The Election
“Let’s be honest here. There’s a Republican majority in the Senate with a Republican president. The Democrats would do the same thing.”
Paul McLeod
His Victory Was Major For Progressives. Now He Wants To Keep It Going By Expanding The Supreme Court.
Progressive candidate Mondaire Jones wants Democrats to add four new justices to the Supreme Court. “This is a constitutional crisis that has existed for years now.”
Addy Baird
