The justices issued six opinions, several of them unusually bitter, in upholding challenges from churches and synagogues to state pandemic restrictions on religious services.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett played a decisive role in the decision, which took the opposite approach of earlier court rulings related to coronavirus restrictions in California and Nevada.
There is nothing funny about the Republican Party’s multipronged attack on voting rights.
A succession of Trump policies reflected the administration’s spite and heartlessness.
The general question in cases in California, Nevada and New York is whether government officials or judges should calibrate responses to the public health crisis.
Their unlikely ally may have lost the White House, but Christian nationalists still plan to win the war.
We need to prepare now to protect the values and institutions that matter most.
He has spent his life gaming the system, so it’s no surprise that he can’t accept defeat.
It doesn’t just distort presidential elections. It infects the entire political process.
The court’s rightward tilt under President Trump, whose administration supported efforts to end race-based admissions policies, gives activists a more favorable opening to challenge affirmative action.
At a Supreme Court argument on Tuesday, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh suggested that striking down one provision would not doom the balance of the law.
This time, the issue is democracy, and the Supreme Court’s duty to leave political decisions to the elected branches of government.
Though the court’s conservative majority has been bolstered by three Trump appointees, the law’s challengers will face headwinds.
The president appeared to have little path through the courts to shift the outcome of the election, leaving him reliant on long shots like recounts or pressure on state legislatures.
The president appeared to have little path through the courts to shift the outcome of the election, leaving him reliant on long shots like recounts or pressure on state legislatures.
Judges, like most Americans, will surely see that the winner should be chosen by no one other than voters.
Will we see a cohesive conservative alliance? Or a disparate group of conservative justices?
The justices have an opportunity to overturn a precedent that has hurt Americans’ First Amendment rights.
The president pursued lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Michigan, and his campaign said it would demand a recount in Wisconsin.
The justices considered whether a city may exclude a Catholic social services agency from its foster care system because it refuses to work with gay couples.
It is not at all clear that an election dispute will reach the justices.
With neither side delivering a knockout punch, lawyers are descending on states by the hundreds to fight over mail ballots.
With neither side delivering a knockout punch, lawyers are descending on states by the hundreds to fight over mail ballots.
The justices considered precedents that said only “permanently incorrigible” juvenile offenders ought be sentenced to die in prison.
Samuel Randall went against his own party’s wishes to keep the U.S. political system from falling apart.
Samuel Randall went against his own party’s wishes to keep the U.S. political system from falling apart.
President Trump and his allies say they intend an aggressive challenge to how the votes are counted in key states, and Democrats are mobilizing to meet it.
But she did not take part in a pair of unsigned decisions in favor of a Black Lives Matter activist and a prisoner held in abusive conditions.
But she did not take part in a pair of unsigned decisions in favor of a Black Lives Matter activist and a prisoner held in abusive conditions.
Doesn’t seem like it has.
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes Hindus more equal than religious minorities, Muslims seek equality from the secular Constitution, not Shariah.
While the chief justice’s views have not been fully endorsed by any of his colleagues, they have so far prevailed in five recent disputes, delivering victories to both Democrats and Republicans.
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh made a correction to a concurring opinion after Vermont officials pointed out that he mistakenly said the state had not changed its election rules.
Republicans in both states opposed the extensions. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who joined the court on Tuesday, did not participate in either case, saying she had not had time to fully review the briefs.
You know who really reduced abortion numbers in the U.S.? President Obama, with the Affordable Care Act.
The court deadlocked last week in the same case, but Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who it was expected would cast a deciding vote, did not participate in the second request for review.
After two decades of legal obscurity, the ruling that handed the 2000 election to George W. Bush is getting fresh attention.
It is dangerous and destabilizing.
The Supreme Court’s ruling to restrict access to voting last week is a reminder of the importance of disability rights laws for protecting the civil rights of all Americans.
Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation has tilted the high court's ideological balance. What should the court’s future be, and who gets to decide it?
Democrats from 2016 make their case against the Democrats of today.
Republicans from 2016 make their case against Republicans of today.
If you’d like to create your own shrine to this indefatigable woman of words, these books are the building blocks.
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday left an opening on the Supreme Court 46 days before Election Day.
The public generally supports the politically liberal position in the cases, though Democrats and Republicans are deeply divided over several of them.
Reporters for The Times provided live analysis as the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether President Trump can block subpoenas to his accountants and bankers from Congress and New York prosecutors.