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Police office guards the main entrance to the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 9, 2018.

Supreme Court refuses to block young people’s climate lawsuit against U.S. government

August 22, 2019 at 9:43 a.m.

The Supreme Court on Friday night refused to halt a novel lawsuit filed by young Americans that attempts to force the federal government to take action on climate change, turning...

Hotel staff member helps direct vehicle traffic as demonstrators gather in front of the Trump Hotel in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017.

Gorsuch gives speech at Trump’s D.C. hotel, drawing protesters

August 22, 2019 at 1:05 a.m.

The controversy remained outside Trump International Hotel on Thursday afternoon. Inside, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered a tribute to civility and free speech to a conservative education nonprofit. Gorsuch's...

FBI Director Robert Mueller, right, responds to a question as Attorney General John Ashcroft looks on during a news conference near the crash site of United Flight 93, in Shanksville, Pa., on Sept. 20, 2001.

Supreme Court: Top U.S. officials aren’t liable in 9/11 rights issue

August 21, 2019 at 11:49 p.m.

High-level U.S. government officials including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former FBI director Robert Mueller cannot be held liable for the alleged unconstitutional treatment of noncitizens detained after the...

Ken Shima of the band The Slants warms up during a recording session in Eugene, Ore., in December 2016. The band is challenging the Patent Office's decision to reject a trademark for their name, arguing that the government cannot make the decision on what kind of speech is disparaging.

Supreme Court skeptical of government’s withholding disparaging trademarks

June 6, 2018 at 7:11 a.m.

A majority of the Supreme Court seemed highly skeptical Wednesday that the federal government can refuse to register all trademarks that may be disparaging, casting it as the government improperly...

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, July 20, 2016, that Texas' strict voter ID law discriminates against minorities and the poor and must quickly be scrubbed of those effects before the November 2016 election.

Appeals court says Texas voter ID law has ‘discriminatory effect’

August 21, 2019 at 7:18 p.m.

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Texas's strict voter-ID law discriminates against minority voters, and it ordered a lower court to come up with a fix for the law...

Nuns and their supporters rally outside the Supreme Court on March 23, 2016.

Supreme Court seeks, offers alternative ways to deal with contraceptive coverage

June 22, 2019 at 5:44 a.m.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday called for additional briefing on alternative ways that employees of religious organizations could receive contraceptive coverage mandated by the Affordable Care Act without involving the...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg takes part in a panel discussion after speaking at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.

Laws written by men to protect women deserve scrutiny, Supreme Court told

June 25, 2019 at 1:18 a.m.

History holds a lesson for the Supreme Court, the brief warns: Be skeptical of laws protecting women that are written by men. The nation's past is littered with such statutes,...

Protesters against racial quotas during a rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, on Dec. 9, as the court hears oral arguments in the Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin affirmative action case.

Affirmative action case returns to a divided court

June 20, 2019 at 4:59 p.m.

The issue of affirmative action in college admissions ran into a solid wall of conservative skepticism at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, but a long and contentious hearing gave both...

The Supreme Court has so far resisted elaborating on two landmark decisions that established a nationwide right to defend one's home with a gun.

Justices appear split in Texas redistricting challenge

June 21, 2019 at 11:50 a.m.

The phrase has come to symbolize American democracy: "One person, one vote." But there was considerable disagreement Tuesday among the justices of the Supreme Court about exactly what it means....

Virginia execution halted by justices

August 21, 2021 at 6:50 p.m.

The Supreme Court stopped the execution of a Virginia Death Row inmate Wednesday, a move that legal experts said might signal a nationwide halt on lethal injections until the justices...

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