Justice Ginsburg, 87, underwent an endoscopic procedure at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to clean out a bile duct stent, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said.
In a polarized nation, the justices continue to defy partisanship.
Hours after a 5-to-4 vote by the Supreme Court, Daniel Lewis Lee was put to death by lethal injection in Terre Haute, Ind., for his role in the 1996 murder of a family of three.
Hours after a 5-4 vote by the Supreme Court, Daniel Lewis Lee was put to death by lethal injection in Terre Haute, Ind., for his role in the 1996 murder of a family of three.
From my elders, I learned that justice is sometimes seven generations away or more — and inevitable.
The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., has two big recent victories, but still has not said whether he is seeking re-election.
Executives with companies including Target, Apple, Google and Facebook warned the president that any actions related to DACA would disrupt the economy and affect the battle against the coronavirus.
After decades of betrayals and broken treaties, the Supreme Court ruled that much of Oklahoma is their land, after all.
Doling out victories to both sides, the court led by Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to strive to avoid charges of partisanship.
A lower-court judge swiftly scheduled a hearing for next week on the Manhattan prosecutor’s demand to see President Trump’s financial records.
The public’s interest in access to Donald Trump’s or any president’s tax filings depends on strong reform legislation from Congress.
The Guelph Treasure was acquired by a German state collection in 1935 from a consortium of Jewish art dealers. Their descendants say the sale was forced, but a Berlin museum claims the deal was fair.
Two decisions this week gave religious employers greater power to fire workers and limit birth control coverage. Polls suggest that on such issues of religious exemptions, most Americans disagree with the court.
In a stunning defeat for the president, the Supreme Court ruled against his claims that he was immune to an examination of his finances.
Manhattan prosecutors scored a win with the Supreme Court's ruling that President Trump could not a block a subpoena of his financial records.
The Supreme Court’s dismissal of President Trump’s claims of immunity was a reminder that institutional prerogatives still matter in Washington, even in a time of extreme partisanship.
The Supreme Court’s decision adds another twist in a yearslong debate over whether the president should release his tax returns.
The Supreme Court’s dismissal of President Trump’s claims of immunity was a reminder that institutional prerogatives still matter in Washington, even in a time of extreme partisanship.
Some are turning away from a founding idea, originalism.
The chief justice keeps ruling against the president. Legal scholars are debating his motivations.
A victory for religious employers is a defeat for their employees — and for the Affordable Care Act.
The justices reiterated that no president is above the law, but voters still won’t see his taxes before November.
Readers cite religious freedom and the anti-vaccine movement in discussing the Supreme Court decision. Also: Colonel Vindman’s retirement; better pay for home health workers; trophy hunting.
Readers discuss who should claim victory and the significance of the ruling in the short and long term.
Two rulings clear the way for prosecutors in New York to seek President Trump’s financial records, but the justices stopped Congress for now.
A 5-4 decision declaring that much of eastern Oklahoma is an Indian reservation could reshape criminal justice in the area by preventing state authorities from prosecuting Native Americans.
His taxes will probably not become public before the election. And that is what he most cares about.
Rethink Impact invests solely in tech start-ups founded by women, which accounted for just 4 percent of all venture deals in the first quarter.
Recent decisions are about safeguarding pluralism, not taking sides in the culture wars.
Around 10 a.m. Thursday, the justices are set to issue highly anticipated decisions on whether the president’s accountants and bankers must disclose information about his financial affairs.
Who wants to trust their reproductive life to Trump?
Justices rule that employers can stand between female workers and their health care.
The regulation was the latest attempt to undermine the “contraception mandate,” a signature initiative of the Obama administration.
The case was the court’s latest consideration of the relationship between the government and religion.
Defeats at three projects reflect increasingly sophisticated legal challenges, shifting economics and growing demands by states to fight climate change.
A court spokeswoman said the chief justice had fallen while walking for exercise and blamed dehydration.
He is a judicial minimalist who seeks to avoid sweeping decisions with disruptive effects.
The justices’ ruling on faithless electors could indirectly help those who want to circumvent the Electoral College entirely.
But the justices stayed the rest of a federal trial judge’s ruling striking down a permit program, allowing construction of other pipelines around the nation.
The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in the “faithless electors” case is another reminder of how antiquated and undemocratic the Electoral College is.
The court said states may require members of the Electoral College to vote for the presidential candidates they had promised to support.
The court said states may require members of the Electoral College to vote for the presidential candidates they had promised to support.
It still refuses to ordain me because of my sexuality. So why do I stay?
A Louisiana law that could have reduced the number of abortion clinics in the state to one was struck down on Monday. In an interview, Adam Liptak, who covers the court, provided context to the decision.
State officials had asked the court to block a lower court’s order that eased photo ID and witness requirements for absentee voting during the pandemic.
The move almost certainly means that blacked-out passages requested by Congress will stay secret at least until after the presidential election.
The court drew its decision narrowly when ruling against a Montana tax break that excluded religious schools. But denominational school advocates will push a broad application.
The former Republican speaker of the House discusses his early political life. Also: The Supreme Court decision on aid to religious schools; prisons and the virus.
The first step in the project is $2 million in ads in competitive states highlighting the consequences for the court if President Trump secures a second term.
Readers offer their analysis of why the chief justice joined his more liberal colleagues to strike down a Louisiana law.
Religious schools should have the same access to scholarships and funds as other private schools, the justices ruled, in a victory for conservatives.
An abortion rights ruling leads to a new focus for Senate races: This is your morning tip sheet.
Why the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law that required doctors performing the procedure to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
Chief Justice Roberts has replaced Justice Anthony M. Kennedy as the member of the Supreme Court at its ideological center, and his vote is now the crucial one in closely divided cases.
Some Gen Z and millennial women said they viewed abortion rights as important but less urgent than other social justice causes. Others said racial disparities in reproductive health must be a focus.
The restiveness of abortion opponents is working against them.
The latest Supreme Court decision sets the stage for further attacks on abortion rights.
The movement has a long pipeline of new cases that, if taken up by the Supreme Court, could present a more direct challenge to Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court’s rejection of a restrictive Louisiana abortion law, and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s dissent, may create new challenges for Susan Collins and other Republican senators up for re-election.
The case concerning the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was part of a politically charged battle over presidential authority.
The case, over a state law requiring doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, is the first abortion ruling since two Trump appointees joined the court.
The movement has a long pipeline of new cases that, if taken up by the Supreme Court, could present a more direct challenge to Roe v. Wade.
The move clears the way for the executions of four men in the coming months after a 17-year gap during which no inmate on death row for federal crimes was put to death.
The case concerning the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was part of a politically charged battle over presidential authority.
The move clears the way for the executions of four men in the coming months after a 17-year gap during which no inmate on death row for federal crimes was put to death.
The A.C.L.U. says protections for religion already exist; a pastor sees possibility in congressional legislation. Also: Generation Z’s hopes and fears.
Democrats in the state had urged the justices to reinstate a federal trial judge’s order based on the 26th Amendment, which bars voting discrimination based on age.
The state leading the latest effort to overturn the health law used to have weaker coverage and more uninsured residents.
Readers condemn the administration’s renewed effort to get the Supreme Court to rule against the Affordable Care Act. Also: Too early for polling.
If successful, the move would permanently end the health insurance program popularly known as Obamacare and wipe out coverage for as many as 23 million Americans.
Federal officials recognized the danger of the spread of coronavirus in prisons early, but have dragged their feet releasing at-risk inmates.
The case concerned a member of Sri Lanka’s Tamil ethnic minority who said he feared persecution and sought to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
Plus, a Supreme Court mystery.
Also this week, how to help reinvent your workplace.
Terry Gonda, a music director at her parish near Detroit, was told she would be fired because she is married to a woman. Days later came the Supreme Court ruling on L.G.B.T.Q. workplace rights.
The Supreme Court developed the doctrine that serves as a shield for officers. A half-century later, it is at the center of the debate over policing.
Embracing the experiences of trans people means leaving old vocabularies behind.
But the justices rejected a request that they rule the agency can never sue for disgorgement of profits obtained by fraud.
There’s a potentially catastrophic decision coming. If you’ve struggled to focus on it, I don’t blame you.
The Supremes smack down a prehistoric president.
Another conservative justice’s arc bends toward juristocracy.
La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos detuvo el plan de Donald Trump de terminar con DACA, el programa que protege de la deportación a cientos de miles jóvenes inmigrantes. La perseverancia de sus beneficiaros pasa por una lección entrañable: alzar la voz.
How we found the voice to tell a 155-year-old story of celebration and setbacks, historically and personally.
A young legal immigrant applauds the Supreme Court decision on DACA so others who were brought here illegally have a chance at the American dream as well.
A week of decisions contained hidden and not-so-hidden messages from the court.
Responding to Thursday’s Supreme Court decision, the president said he will follow the rules set out by the justices to challenge the Obama-era program protecting young immigrants from deportation.
Responding to Thursday’s Supreme Court decision, the president said he will follow the rules set out by the justices to challenge the Obama-era program protecting young immigrants from deportation.
Dreamers, and all Americans, deserve more stability than they are getting under Donald Trump.
The court said that the Trump Administration may not immediately shut down the program, which protects undocumented children from deportation. But this is not the end.
The court said that the Trump Administration may not immediately shut down the program which protects undocumented children from deportation. But this is not the end.
The program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, protects people brought to the United States as children by shielding them from deportation and letting them work.
La corte bloqueó al gobierno de Donald Trump de poner fin al programa que protege de la deportación a unos 700.000 jóvenes inmigrantes conocidos como “dreamers”. Esto es lo que necesitas saber.
People demonstrated outside the Supreme Court, which on Thursday ruled that the Trump administration could not immediately end the program that protects 700,000 young immigrants from deportation.
Here’s what you need to know about a policy that protected from deportation people who were brought into the United States as children.
Here’s what you need to know about a policy that protected from deportation people who were brought into the United States as children.
Monday’s Supreme Court decision on sex discrimination was a blow for religious freedom. That’s a problem — for both sides.
We’ll soon find out whether the court inflames the culture wars or cools them as its term winds down.
Why is America attacking the International Criminal Court with economic pressure?
Transgender Americans such as Rachel Tudor have been fighting for their rights at work, school and housing for years. On Monday, the Supreme Court gave them hope.
El fallo de la Corte Suprema que protege a las personas homosexuales y trans de discriminación en el trabajo fue, quizás, la evidencia más sólida de cómo los puntos de vista de los estadounidenses han cambiado en los últimos años.
Ruben Gutierrez’s lawyers argued that he had the right to have a Christian chaplain present during his execution.
Using emergency relief at the court, the administration has imposed controversial policies without a final determination of their legality.
State supreme court judges are starting to grapple publicly with the racial injustices in the criminal justice systems they oversee.
Readers celebrate the decision and discuss how some conservatives like Justice Neil Gorsuch and Barry Goldwater have steered their own course.
A host of reasons raise questions about the effectiveness of this reform.
Inspired by the civil rights movement, it was decades in the making.
In an unexpected ruling, the Supreme Court said that the Civil Rights Act protects workers if they’re fired “merely for being gay or transgender.”
Conservative justices provide a historic L.G.B.T.Q. rights ruling: This is your morning tip sheet.
A little bit of good news, in a dire month for L.G.B.T.Q. people.
Why a surprise majority of judges ruled that the Civil Rights Act protects gay and transgender people from workplace discrimination.
So much for “But Gorsuch.”
The ruling focused on employment discrimination, but legal scholars say its language could force expanded civil rights protections in education, health care, housing and other areas of daily life.
The Supreme Court’s surprising 6-to-3 ruling in favor of gay and transgender rights was perhaps the strongest evidence yet of how fundamentally and unpredictably American views have changed.
A ruling that protects the rights of gay and transgender workers could affect how conservative groups operate their own institutions.
The Supreme Court says you can’t be fired for being gay or transgender.
The Supreme Court decision gives plaintiffs leverage, but companies large and small are still expected to face legal cases over their policies.
One conservative group said the justice’s opinion in the L.G.B.T. rights case had betrayed the legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia, whose seat on the court he has held since 2017.
The court said the language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination, applies to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The case concerned a state law that limits cooperation with agents seeking to detain immigrants released from state custody.
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.