No one owns the law, and no one should be able to copyright it.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the question’s inclusion on the 2020 census this week. But recently discovered files have compelled lower courts to re-examine the case.
A cautionary tale for the census case before the Supreme Court.
After the opposition kept calling Prime Minister Imran Khan a leader “selected” by the country’s military, the deputy speaker banned the description. The debate is not over.
The court also made it harder to obtain commercial information under the Freedom of Information Act.
Insurance companies say they are owed some $12 billion promised to them in “risk corridor” provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
Carl Hulse’s “Confirmation Bias” recounts the recent battles to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat.
The resulting maps would tend to shift power to areas with more residents that are white and older.
The Supreme Court took a Mississippi prosecutor to task for repeatedly excluding black jurors from a murder trial.
Did the Supreme Court just suggest that it is prepared to agree with that statement?
In a 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court overruled its second precedent in a little over a month.
The term’s most important cases will help chart the future of a court in transition.
The decision, from an eight-member court, suggested that the major constitutional issue it considered may soon return to the court.
Challengers argued that the cross in suburban Maryland sent a message of government favoritism toward Christianity.
Challengers argued that the cross in suburban Maryland sent a message of government favoritism toward Christianity.
The court has passed on contentious cases about abortion and the rights of same-sex couples. Will it now drop the census case?
The court has passed on contentious cases about abortion and the rights of same-sex couples. Will it now drop the census case?
From gay marriage to gender identity, a timeline of the legal battles that have shaped L.G.B.T.Q. rights.
We asked the candidates whether the size of the Supreme Court should be expanded.
The court ruled that the Atomic Energy Act did not bar the state’s moratorium on mining what appears to be the nation’s largest uranium deposit.
The Supreme Court just declined to hear a case in which a bakery refused to make a cake for a lesbian couple. Here’s a look at similar past cases.
The decision featured unusual alliances, with Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch joining three of the court’s more liberal members.
The justices refused to overrule precedents that allow separate prosecutions for the same crimes in state and federal courts.
The Supreme Court again avoided deciding whether the Constitution allows people with religious objections to same-sex marriage to discriminate.
He’s making it harder for future presidents to govern.
Nearly 30 years after the Clarence Thomas hearings, she talks about the progress that’s been made and the issues that remain.
Gregory L. Johnson claims police officers violated his rights after his act of protest. Those rights were established 30 years ago in a Supreme Court case that bears his name.
Everything you think you know about the death penalty is wrong.
Those who score big victories for the civil liberties of every American sometimes lose their own freedom.
Prosecutors have stepped into the void left by Congress’s failure to say how far the police can go in using investigative technology.
With state legislatures passing new abortion restrictions, the Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund follows its own compass on how to best help clients.
The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of a man who has been held in wartime detention for 17 years with no end in sight.
Byron Allen, an African-American entrepreneur, says the cable giant discriminated against his company, Entertainment Studios Networks.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in remarks at a conference that included references to the census and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, gave liberals little reason to be optimistic.
Liberal advocacy groups have a message for federal judges pondering retirement: Hold on until 2021. In the meantime, they have begun drawing up lists of possible replacements.
Nobody knows how to run YouTube. Especially not YouTube.
Technocratic reforms won’t clear the way for a progressive agenda.
Conservatives seem to assume that only the chief justice is moved by fears that he and his colleagues will end up looking like politicians in robes.
Opponents of a citizenship question say a Republican operative helped steer it onto the census. That is the stuff of conspiracy theories, the Justice Department said in a court filing.
Ronald DeRisi, 75, of Long Island, left expletive-laden voice mail messages at the offices of two senators and threatened to assault and shoot them.
In a relaxed public interview, Justice Clarence Thomas reflected on his career and work at the Supreme Court.
In a relaxed public interview, Justice Clarence Thomas reflected on his career and work at the Supreme Court.
The administration is making life easier for business owners and harder for workers.
Will the Supreme Court act as a Republican branch?
Does anything link the eugenics of the past to abortion today?
Last year, the court overlooked the anti-Muslim animus of the travel ban and ruled for the administration. It should not be taken in again.
Christopher Lee Price’s case prompted an anguished middle-of-the-night dissent in April that opened a window on angry divisions at the court.
The administration said it needed citizenship data to protect voting rights. New documents tell another story.
President Trump may be the louder voice on the issue, but the vice president is the one many evangelicals hear.
Weeks before the Supreme Court rules on the legality of the citizenship question, evidence filed in court could further erode the Trump administration’s rationale for the question.
The state’s Democratic governor said he planned to sign the so-called fetal heartbeat bill. Similar bans across the country have already been challenged — and blocked — in court.
The state’s Democratic governor said he planned to sign the so-called fetal heartbeat bill. Similar bans across the country have already been challenged — and blocked — in court.
Despite his blockade of an Obama Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year, the Senate majority leader is now definitive that he would push a Trump nominee in 2020.
They will force women to carry pregnancies to term despite the detection of painful and deadly fetal anomalies.
The Senate majority leader acknowledged that Republicans would treat a judge nominated by a Republican president differently from one nominated by a Democratic president.
The court upheld a provision on the disposal of fetal remains but avoided what could have been a test of Roe v. Wade. Here’s what that means.
Stephen Budiansky’s new biography of the Supreme Court justice reveals a man who was guided by experience, not logic.
The Supreme Court also issued a decision limiting suits against the police by people claiming retaliatory arrests for exercising their First Amendment rights.
Missouri may soon show America what abortion access will look like if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
The justices upheld a law on the disposal of fetal remains, but declined to hear a case on whether states can prohibit abortions sought solely based on a fetal characteristic like sex or disability.
Property scams start from the top here, and cut across political divides.
The case, a challenge to a New York City gun regulation, is the first Second Amendment case at the Supreme Court in almost a decade.