President Trump’s choice for solicitor general, D. John Sauer, has long pushed for restrictions on abortion and access to contraception.
The court will decide whether Medicaid beneficiaries may sue to receive services under a law that lets them choose any qualified provider.
The driver, Douglas Horn, sued the maker of a product advertised as THC-free under a federal racketeering law, saying he had suffered a business injury.
The justices handed a win, for now, to the Food and Drug Administration in its rejection of applications from makers of flavored liquids used in e-cigarettes.
Lawyers for Venezuelan migrants asked the justices to keep in place a pause on President Trump’s deportation plan, calling it “completely at odds” with limited wartime authority given by Congress.
As Bertolt Brecht wrote, it is an unhappy land that needs heroes.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court had ruled that the group’s activities in serving the state’s poor were not religious enough to qualify for a tax exemption.
The court, which has been receptive to claims from religious groups, particularly Christian ones, will hear three major cases in the coming weeks.
The justice made remarks at once cautious and forceful at Georgetown University Law Center, which has called attacks by the Trump administration a threat to academic freedom.
El gobierno de Trump pidió a los jueces que le permitieran utilizar una ley en tiempo de guerra para continuar con las deportaciones de venezolanos sin apenas garantías procesales.
The Trump administration asked the justices to allow it to use a wartime law to continue deportations of Venezuelans with little or no due process.
California banned affirmative action decades ago. The Trump administration says it plans to investigate whether schools there are still considering race.
El gobierno había endurecido la normativa sobre los kits que pueden ensamblarse con facilidad para convertirse en armas de fuego casi imposibles de rastrear.
In boilerplate letters, the administration told recipients that the grants supported diversity efforts and were wasteful.
A rule regulating the firearm kits was a centerpiece of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s gun control initiative. The Supreme Court has upheld the regulation, issued in 2022.
The administration had tightened regulations on kits that can be easily assembled into nearly untraceable firearms.
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An administration lawyer complained about what she said was a trend of lower court judges exceeding their authority in halting government programs.
For months, Israelis put aside their deep rifts to fight a common enemy. Now, amid a renewed government push for power, they are battling one another.
This is certainly an administration that reminds us why the framers decided on separation of powers.
Judge Maryanne Trump Barry ruled that the law invoked against Mr. Khalil violated the Constitution by giving unfettered discretion to the secretary of state.
A majority of the court appeared skeptical of a challenge to Louisiana’s voting map. The challengers had argued the state impermissibly relied on race to draw its map.
The judiciary will never surrender to the president its constitutional role to interpret the Constitution.
What is the chief justice getting at?
The president and his allies are encouraging a campaign of menace.
Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The New York Times, says the right question is not whether there is a constitutional crisis, but rather how much damage it will cause and how the American government may be fundamentally transformed.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who has faced intense scrutiny since joining the court, says she will make the judicial process less of a “mystery” for readers.
The justices unanimously said a law prohibiting “any false statement or report” did not cover misleading assertions that fell short of outright lies.
It is one thing to sacrifice liberty in the face of a real threat. To manufacture threats in order to sacrifice liberty is another matter altogether.
The president’s firing of the two Democratic commissioners at the regulator not only a challenge to the legal status quo, but also raises uncertainty for businesses.
After the president called for a judge’s impeachment, and the chief justice publicly scolded him, has America arrived at a constitutional crisis?
Legal scholars say that the nation has reached a tipping point and that the right question is not whether there is a crisis, but rather how much damage it will cause.
Where all this goes is still up to us.
La base del argumento jurídico del gobierno en los litigios de este mandato es que no importa lo que un juez perciba que son los hechos, porque el presidente determina la realidad.
The litigation unleashed by President Trump’s second term, combined with his distortions and lies, is testing the judicial system’s practice of deferring to the executive branch’s determinations about what is true.
A softball question, and Robert Bork was out.
The Senate minority leader discusses the backlash to his vote on the Republican spending bill, how he sees his role within the party and his new book.
“Rue Saint-Honoré por la tarde. Efecto de lluvia” se exhibe desde hace décadas en el Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Los herederos de la propietaria original ahora tienen nuevas posibilidades en un caso de restitución.
The justices requested responses by early April from the states and groups who had challenged the executive order.
The case involving a Pissarro is being sent back to federal court in California for review in light of a new state law, in a dispute between heirs and a Spanish museum.
Es la primera vez que la disputa legal sobre la orden del presidente llega al máximo tribunal de Estados Unidos. Si el gobierno de Trump tiene éxito, la política podría entrar en vigor en algunas partes del país.
Trump administration lawyers asked the justices to limit the sweep of decisions by three lower courts that issued nationwide pauses on the policy.
Federal law has special provisions in domestic violence cases because of their unique risks.
The order prohibited the agencies from “unlawfully impounding congressionally appropriated foreign aid funds” owed to contractors and grant recipients. It applied to work completed before Feb. 13.
The justices declined to hear unusual arguments from Republican-led states that sought to end lawsuits against energy companies over their role in global warming.
Colorado, like more than 20 other states, bars licensed therapists from trying to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of minors in their care.
The real legacy of the case, scholars say, is not its protection of former presidents from prosecution but its expansive understanding of presidential power.
The case invites further fragmentation of public education.
She was the only member of the court appointed by the president to vote against his emergency request to freeze foreign aid.
We explore how the judiciary is stopping parts of the president’s agenda.
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The groups that sued insist the court’s ruling ought to force the Trump administration to restore all funding delivered via U.S.A.I.D. But the administration says it has the power to decimate the agency.
The Trump administration's moves to halt foreign assistance and lay off thousands at the nation's lead aid agency have been met with legal challenges that quickly ascended to the Supreme Court. See the major moments.
The move came after Chief Justice Roberts temporarily paused a trial judge’s order requiring the administration to release more than $1.5 billion.
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.
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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.
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Readers call for more openness and discuss judicial restraint and the justices’ religious beliefs. Also: Mask decisions; Twitter’s dark side; skipping school.