A constitutional amendment in the nuclear-armed country extends the chief’s power over all the military and brings Pakistan’s highest court under tighter political control.
American women need the freedom to determine the course of their own lives.
The search of The Marion County Record’s office in 2023 touched off a national conversation about press freedom.
The Supreme Court chose not to revisit a case involving same-sex marriage. The number of married same-sex couples has doubled in the last 10 years.
A lawsuit filed on Monday argued that the president has discriminated against blue states by slashing federal funds for political leverage during the shutdown.
Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, had asked the court to reconsider its landmark 2015 opinion.
Lower courts condemned the treatment of Damon Landor, a Rastafarian, but found that a federal law protecting religious rights barred him from suing prison officials for money.
The case for “A.I. Interaction Privilege.”
Danielle Sassoon resigned as an interim U.S. attorney rather than halt the prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams. Her new firm’s conservative principles have at times put it at odds with President Trump.
Judge Mark L. Wolf, writing in The Atlantic, said he was stepping down to speak out against the “assault on the rule of law” by President Trump, whom he accused of “targeting his adversaries.”
Weeks of uncertainty during the longest government shutdown in American history have left some states struggling to issue payments to food stamp recipients.
Readers respond to a Times editorial detailing the country’s slide toward autocracy.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases involving provinces using a clause to pass laws that violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk once jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, has asked the court to reconsider its landmark 2015 opinion.
More lawyers are using artificial intelligence to write legal briefs. Some vigilantes are publicizing the A.I.-generated errors.
Amending state constitutions seemed like a long shot, but Virginia’s move shows more blue states may be willing to try, opening new possibilities.
The appeal comes one day after a judge sharply attacked the White House for politicizing the anti-hunger program.
If you have followed coverage of the history-making New York City mayoral election, here’s a chance to check your knowledge.
He won billions of dollars for plaintiffs in major suits against corporations but was disbarred for siphoning money from clients.
The Justice Department later said it would appeal, leaving the program known as SNAP in limbo.
Readers respond to news and opinion articles about Bill Gates’s public memo on climate change. Also: Interfaith connections; the myth of originalism.
Judge Sara L. Ellis said she saw “little reason for the use of force that the federal agents are currently using,” and said Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, had lied about his use of tear gas in Chicago.
The Republican leaders of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees told Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. that anonymous judges who responded to a Times questionnaire may have violated ethics rules.
En Virginia, Nueva Jersey y otros estados, los votantes demócratas impulsaron a sus candidatos a la victoria y enviaron una advertencia al presidente Trump y a su Partido Republicano.
In Virginia, New Jersey and beyond, Democratic voters powered their candidates to victory and sent a warning sign to President Trump and his Republican Party.
Voters chose to keep three Democratic justices for 10 more years, a critical victory for Democrats in the biggest swing state in the country.
Michael Gates, a Justice Department official who questioned Orange County’s voting procedures, was selected to monitor voting there.
He tried to warn Americans about Trump, but they had already learned not to believe him.
The decision dealt a setback to the developers of SouthCoast Wind, a 141-turbine project off Nantucket, Mass.
In a fast-moving trial, prosecutors invited testimony from the federal agent who said he was hit by a deli sandwich during a confrontation with Sean Dunn.
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Voters will decide whether three justices who were elected as Democrats keep their seats for another 10-year term.
Pennsylvania voters are heading to the polls on Tuesday to decide whether to keep three Democratic justices on the state’s seven-member top court, which could affect the panel’s partisan balance.
Criminal inquiries pit the Miller family’s safety concerns against the First Amendment rights of an activist in Northern Virginia critical of the administration.
Lo que está en juego es la legalidad de la política económica emblemática de Trump: el uso de poderes de emergencia para imponer aranceles generalizados.
Jury selection started on Monday for Sean C. Dunn, who was charged with misdemeanor assault after hitting a federal agent with a “sub-style sandwich.”
The justices face so-called legitimacy dilemma as they deal with a tricky legal dispute and a president who has made clear he would view defeat as a personal insult.
For decades, the United States has clashed over two stories of nationhood.
Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex.
One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid. It still has a long way to go.
Few places have felt the effects as palpably as the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, which is deeply enmeshed in the workings of government and has filed criminal cases against President Trump.
The Constitution is not a word game.
It was right to decry factional strife. Its remedy was a grave mistake.
This is what happens when no one wants to govern.
The ruling on Friday found that Trump had usurped the power vested in Congress and the states to administer and oversee elections protocols.
States have sued to spare millions of low-income Americans from losing benefits starting on Saturday, after the Trump administration said it would not fund them.
What happens when a President’s physical or mental decline makes him unfit to continue to serve?
Outnumbered and facing vast stakes, Justices Kagan and Jackson are split over the best approach: investing in diplomacy inside the court or sounding the alarm outside.
The appointment of the U.S. attorney in Albany, N.Y., John A. Sarcone, is at least the fifth to be questioned in the courts.
The brief deployment of troops hours after a judge forbid it marked the second time this week government lawyers had to come clean to courts considering President Trump’s designs on Portland.
In a scathing order, a judge in Washington State said the government’s real purpose was to intimidate providers into dropping or paring back transgender care.
The prosecutors were put on leave after filing a sentencing memo in the case of a man who showed up armed outside the home of former President Barack Obama.
El presidente de EE. UU. dice que a pesar de tener “la mejor economía que hemos tenido”, hay que respetar lo que establece la Constitución.
Despite the Constitution’s two-term limit, Trump had mused for months about a third term.
The court ruled that Bill Essayli had been acting “unlawfully” as U.S. attorney in Los Angeles but that he could stay on as the office’s top deputy for now.
The speaker said he did not see a path to amending the Constitution to allow the president to seek a third term, but that it was fun to pretend he could to inflame Democrats.
The bar group’s ethics committee says firms that make a deal with the government may need to get waivers from clients with opposing interests.
While speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, President Trump said that his recent M.R.I. results were “perfect,” but declined to say why his doctors had ordered the scan. Mr. Trump again brought up that he’d be open to serving a third term.
President Trump made the comments on the second day of his trip to Asia. The Constitution limits presidents to two terms, but Mr. Trump has suggested he might try to circumvent it.
The justices used the doctrine, a judicially created method of reading statutes, to thwart several major Biden programs.
The Harvard historian on why change requires “determination and imagination.”
Reporting on pregnancy didn’t stop me from experiencing its joy.
The Trump administration said that monitors will watch polling in two states, led by Democrats, where key races or issues are on the ballot.
During a hearing on Friday, lawyers told a judge that National Guard troops sent from Republican-led states had been conducting conduct law enforcement work.
Now that he is back in the White House, he has made some of them more powerful than ever.
For decades, federal officers have had to rely on more than race or ethnicity to stop and question someone over citizenship. That is now being tested.
Phil Brest, a veteran of the judicial confirmation wars, will head the American Constitution Society at a time of legal turmoil.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, “We suspect that Russia is behind most of these drone flights” around vital sites like ports and airports.
Plus, a drastic drop in peanut allergies.
The Second Amendment case tests a federal law used to convict Hunter Biden that bars drug users and addicts from possessing guns.
A federal judge has ordered operational leaders of the crackdown to appear before her on Monday to be questioned about their tactics and their use of tear gas.
The order comes as the Trump administration has carried out an immigration crackdown in the region.
The conviction of Pedro Hernandez in the 1979 murder of the 6-year-old was vacated. The Manhattan district attorney is exploring whether to try him again.
The office that administers the federal court system said that as of Monday, the judiciary will not have funding to sustain “full, paid operations.”
The president has mobilized state-based military forces to U.S. cities over the objections of state and local officials.
Mr. Bolton appeared in federal court in Greenbelt, Md., a day after he was indicted by a grand jury.
What do we expect from the Supreme Court and what can it actually do? On “Interesting Times,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Ross Douthat discuss how the court makes decisions, with an eye toward the future, rather than focusing on the moment we live in right now.
Abortion isn’t a right protected by the Constitution nor is it deeply rooted in the country’s history. Justice Amy Coney Barrett describes how the Supreme Court’s majority came to that conclusion on this week’s episode of “Interesting Times.” She tells Ross Douthat the tools she uses to interpret the law.
A movement born in churches to help vulnerable immigrants has become a constitutional battleground in Chicago and Portland, Ore.
The Supreme Court justice isn’t making decisions based on public opinion.
Journalists with access to the Pentagon turned in their badges on Wednesday instead of agreeing to a revised press policy that newsroom leaders say violates the First Amendment. The New York Times and others refused to sign, but at least one organization, One America News, did.
If the Supreme Court justices determine that lawmakers may not consider race in drawing district maps, the repercussions for the country’s political balance could be widespread.
The justices on the State Supreme Court heard arguments in a long dispute about whether the Tesla chief executive’s compensation was fair to shareholders.
Labor groups are set to square off against the Trump administration one day after the president renewed his threat to cut “Democrat programs.”
Ashley Tellis, an expert on South Asian affairs, was arrested after the F.B.I. said federal agents found hundreds of pages of sensitive government records at his home in Virginia.
Montana is defending the actions of law enforcement officers who did not have a warrant when they responded to a possibly suicidal Army veteran.
If the justices decide that lawmakers cannot consider race in drafting maps, redistricting could result in congressional seats flipping from blue to red throughout the country.
The district attorney is searching for witnesses and plans to ask the Supreme Court to consider the Etan Patz case. A defense lawyer for the man accused in the killing says they’re dawdling.
The former transportation secretary argues Americans need a new sense of belonging.
The justices have shown a willingness to chip away at the landmark civil rights legislation. A Louisiana case could unravel much of its remaining power.
The system for compensating people injured by vaccines needs significant reform. But the health secretary could alter it in ways that ultimately reduce vaccine access for everyone.
“I’m glad it happened, even at my expense,” said Rod Ponton, who is (still) not a cat.
The decision could rip a hole in Berlin’s budget and complicate the transition to a greener economy.
The case is the second one this term asking the justices to decide when government activity crosses the line to become coercion forbidden by the First Amendment.
A Fifth Circuit panel partly upheld restrictions on the Biden administration’s communications with online platforms about their content.
After making little progress with Republican leaders at the White House on Tuesday, the president previewed two possible endgames to resolve a debt-limit standoff.
Two criminal defendants have asked the Supreme Court to decide whether remote testimony against them violated the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause.
Recent orders suggest that the justices are thinking of dismissing cases involving the “independent state legislature” theory and Title 42, an immigration measure imposed during the pandemic.
The justices, who had been set to hear arguments on March 1, acted after the Biden administration filed a brief saying that the measure would soon be moot.
The unanimous ruling was the first one summarized by a justice since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and an indication that the court is off to a slow start this term.
At issue is Title 42, a public health measure invoked by the Trump administration during the pandemic to block migrants from seeking asylum in the United States.
The justices left in place an injunction blocking the Biden administration’s authority to forgive up to $20,000 in debt per borrower.
A pair of prominent headlines highlights the reversals.
We all know what happened with summer 2020. Then 2021 was dampened by Delta. This year, any anticipated return to revelry has been hampered by … *waves hands at everything.* Is there hope for enjoying the once fun season?
School is out for the summer — but in some cases, so are the bosses.
School is out for the summer — but in some cases, so are the bosses.
Readers call for more openness and discuss judicial restraint and the justices’ religious beliefs. Also: Mask decisions; Twitter’s dark side; skipping school.