Remember when Republicans loved small government?
The case, one of several challenges to mail-in ballot rules lodged by allies of President Trump, involves an effort to exclude votes received after Election Day.
The conservative Christian law firm and advocacy group has been involved in a number of recent cases, including challenges to abortion access and gay and transgender rights.
The Supreme Court’s decision in a case challenging Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors would have implications for many states with similar laws.
As the administration’s top advocate before the justices, D. John Sauer has notched several recent Supreme Court victories.
It is the most demanding form of judicial review. If it applies, Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy is probably doomed.
The ruling, usually referred to as NIFLA, arose from a First Amendment challenge to California law regulating “crisis pregnancy centers.”
The practice surged in the 1980s and 1990s, before medical groups began warning it was harmful.
Plus, a new way to fight robocalls.
The president’s claims about cities don’t hold up.
The court’s ruling in the Colorado case will have implications for more than 20 other states with similar laws.
The emergency order is the latest turn in a longstanding legal dispute between the tech giant and the creator of the popular game Fortnite.
La exempleada y amiga de Jeffrey Epstein argumentó que un acuerdo secreto entre unos fiscales y el multimillonario financiero invalidaba su condena.
The onetime employee and friend of Jeffrey Epstein argued that a secret agreement between prosecutors and the multimillionaire financier invalidated her conviction.
Plus, when Silicon Valley comes to the farm.
As the justices return to the bench Monday, the court will confront a series of cases central to the president’s agenda.
The phrase doesn’t appear in the Constitution or its amendments.
Colorado and more than 20 other states restrict therapists from trying to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of clients under age 18.
Conflicting court rulings have plunged hundreds of thousands of people with temporary protection from deportation into uncertainty.
What exactly is religion, anyway?
The Second Amendment case involves a Hawaii law that generally prohibits firearms on private property that is accessible to the public.
There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.
Her streak of Supreme Court victories, which began during the New Deal era, benefited millions of workers and continue to shape labor rights today.
Plus, what Jane Goodall learned among the chimps.
A Supreme Court order keeping Lisa Cook on the Federal Reserve Board for now is “a time to exhale but not breathe easy,” one expert said.
Justice Department lawyers are asking judges to pause their cases until funding resumes.
Readers sharply criticize the speeches by the president and the secretary of defense. Also: A cynical order from the Supreme Court.
The justices deferred a decision on the president’s efforts to oust Ms. Cook and instead set oral arguments in the case for January.
The decision vacated a finding by a panel of the court’s judges regarding President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants, but did not clear the way for such expulsions to resume.
Three legal experts on an action-packed Supreme Court, as it enters a new term.
The plane’s owner, an 82-year-old veteran, has asked the Supreme Court to hear his case and set limits on forfeitures of property used to commit crimes.
Coral Davenport, a New York Times reporter, explains how Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, plans to circumvent Congress’s budgetary powers to advance the Trump administration’s agenda.
Los abogados del gobierno pidieron a los jueces que despejaran el camino para la orden ejecutiva del presidente que pone fin a la ciudadanía por derecho de nacimiento.
Jadira Bonilla, a kindergarten teacher at a Catholic school in southern New Jersey, was told she might have violated her contract, according to an email shared with The New York Times.
Government lawyers asked the justices to clear the way for the president’s executive order ending birthright citizenship.
The Trump administration objects to paying out $4 billion appropriated by Congress.
The case could rewrite the rules on how businesses make money on Google’s smartphone operating system.
In a brief filed with the court, former Fed chairs and U.S. Treasury secretaries cautioned of erosion in public confidence in the Fed’s independence.
Trump dreams of infinite presidential power.
Plus, America’s new astronauts.
The justices said they will consider whether to overrule a landmark Supreme Court precedent that has limited the president’s ability to fire top officials at the agency.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., a conservative Catholic, has visited Rome for decades, often teaching or participating in academic conferences.
The solicitor general accused a federal trial judge of defying an earlier order from the justices, though one that provided no reasoning.
The Supreme Court has distinguished bully-pulpit persuasion, which is permissible under the First Amendment, from coercion and threats, which are not.
Los funcionarios del gobierno de Trump han hablado mucho de castigar ciertos tipos de mensaje. Esto es lo que dice la ley.
President Trump had pressed to fire Lisa Cook before the central bank’s meeting, at which the Fed voted to cut interest rates.
There has been a lot of talk from Trump administration officials about punishing speech. Here is what the law says.
Stephen Miran and Lisa Cook will both cast votes at the central bank’s meeting on Wednesday, where policymakers are expected to lower interest rates.
Many of the rulings in which the justices have cleared the way for President Trump’s agenda have come in terse, unsigned orders.
Critics call the expedited rulings, which have become routine in the second Trump administration, the “shadow docket.” The justices have other ideas.
In a notice to Congress, the Trump administration said the additional $58 million would go to the U.S. Marshals Service. It also said it supported additional security for lawmakers.
The second Trump administration has filed roughly the same number of applications so far as the Biden administration did over four years. But they have fared quite differently.
In “We the People,” the Harvard historian worries that the glacial amendment process is leading the country to crisis.
A hearing in the case of five migrants deported to Ghana last week showed how earlier Supreme Court rulings have paved the way for President Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
Months have passed since the lawsuit was filed, and many of the fired employees have moved on, the judge noted.
Opposition parties say a move by India’s election commission is part of a wider pattern of election influencing by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which derides the claims.
Readers discuss the damage to America’s parks. Also: Racial profiling in immigrant sweeps; the 9/11 memorial; phones in the classroom.
Brazil just succeeded where we failed.
The interim order came after a decision in June on medical care for transgender youths and as the justices prepare to hear arguments on transgender athletes.
For the president, the power to issue limitless tariffs is at the heart of his second-term vision, from trade to foreign policy.
Jeffrey Toobin talks with Bryan Stevenson about surviving the politics of fear in 2025.
Los Angeles residents are anxious once again following a Supreme Court ruling that allowed aggressive immigration raids to resume.
Acting on his own, the chief justice issued an “administrative stay” pausing a trial judge’s ruling while the full court considers the matter.
The justices moved quickly to schedule oral argument to consider the legality of the president’s signature economic initiative.
The Heritage Foundation’s clause-by-clause analysis, to be published next month, is an originalist manifesto and a showcase for aspiring Supreme Court nominees.
Plus, the fight for control of Fox News.
The ruling allowed immigration agents to stop people for reasons that lower courts had deemed likely unconstitutional.
In a studiously bland new book, “Listening to the Law,” the Supreme Court justice describes her legal philosophy and tries to sidestep the court’s recent controversies.
A federal judge had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like a person’s ethnicity or that they speak Spanish.
The court has been largely receptive to the administration’s claims of executive power.
Texas and New York are at the leading edge of an escalating states’ rights battle over the mailing of abortion pills to patients in states with bans.
The justice talks about everything from his indictment of the regulatory state to the rights of Native Americans.
Plus, a gun rights case at the Supreme Court and WeWork’s bankruptcy filing.
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.
The legislation would prevent President Biden from issuing another last-minute extension on the payments beyond the end of the summer.
A justice who frequently struggles to see injustice and cruelty in the present will surely struggle to see injustice and cruelty in the past.
The justices acted after the Biden administration announced that the health emergency used to justify the measure, Title 42, was ending.
President Biden has acknowledged that he has not accomplished all he wished to. But that, he maintains, is an argument for his re-election.
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 administration faced a conservative court that has insisted that government initiatives with major political and economic consequences be clearly authorized by Congress.
The justices are set to hear arguments on March 1 on whether Republican-led states may seek to keep in place the immigration measure, which was justified by the coronavirus pandemic.
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.
In a brief filed with the justices, the president’s lawyers argued that his administration had acted within its authority in moving to forgive hundreds of billions in student debt.
Readers praise plans for more contemporary works. Also: Zelensky and American values; protecting the minority; remote work; the Groucho exception.
Plans to lift Title 42 have prompted dire predictions of chaos on the border. But there is already a migrant surge, because the pandemic policy was never an effective border-control tool.
For some lawmakers and politicians on both sides of the aisle, brandishing Title 42 is a way to flaunt an aggressive stance on the border.
The temporary stay in lifting the pandemic rule known as Title 42 is a provisional victory for 19 states, led mostly by Republicans, that had sought to keep it in place on the border.
¿Se está acabando el mundo tal como lo conocíamos? ¿Lo sabrías, siquiera, antes de que fuera demasiado tarde?
In 2022, we debated the apocalypse.
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.
The social network’s new owner wants to cut costs and make money from more aspects of tweeting. But some advertisers and celebrities remain cautious.
The courthouse has been closed to most visitors since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, and in the meantime the court has been transformed.
Readers debate the party’s strategy of supporting far-right G.O.P. candidates it thinks it can beat. Also: Covid and schools; Ukraine’s students; Kansas and abortion.
The House speaker’s visit is reviewed, pro and con. Also: The Kansas abortion vote; OB-GYNs; coal miners; rich and poor friends; single-issue voters.
Plus Xi Jinping visits Hong Kong and Ukraine takes back Snake Island.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Readers call for more openness and discuss judicial restraint and the justices’ religious beliefs. Also: Mask decisions; Twitter’s dark side; skipping school.