Two new biographies of the Supreme Court justice show how his career was propelled by a legal movement that coalesced to take down Roe v. Wade.
On “The Opinions,” Justice Neil Gorsuch tells the Opinion columnist David French that despite their varied backgrounds, the Supreme Court justices often find more unity than division.
Guess who benefits from a “colorblind Constitution.”
David French and the Supreme Court justice discuss how the ideals of 1776 shaped — and strain — the country today.
After Watergate, Congress tried to curtail the role of money in politics. But a pivotal Supreme Court case nipped it in the bud. Years later, new details are emerging on how wealthy Americans were conferred with a “right to spend” on elections.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s appointment of Louise Arbour, a former Supreme Court justice, as governor general, sends a message beyond Canada.
The House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, sent a familiar emissary to the New York State Capitol to convey the party’s urgency to draw more favorable maps.
Who will keep the 2026 ballots straight?
Louisiana voters who successfully challenged the state’s voting map as an illegal racial gerrymander had asked the justices to quickly return the case to the lower courts, clearing the way for a new map.
A lower-court ruling had reinstated a Food and Drug Administration requirement that patients visit a health care provider in person to obtain mifepristone.
Plus, the complicated legacy of Spirit Airlines.
The Supreme Court ruling said there must be proof that a racial group was “intentionally” disadvantaged. The dissent called it “well-nigh impossible.”
A ruling by a federal appeals court has blocked access to abortion pills via telemedicine.
A federal appeals court temporarily halted a Food and Drug Administration regulation that has greatly expanded access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
Congress must once again defend democracy from a hostile court.
A Supreme Court court decision involving similar deportation protections for Haitians and Syrians could have implications for Yemeni migrants.
Gov. Kay Ivey said a map that would give Republicans an additional House seat cannot be enacted without Supreme Court action, but she wants to be ready if that happens.
Readers discuss what one calls “the most recent Supreme Court assault on the Voting Rights Act of 1965.” Also: Shifts in drug policy.
New body camera footage from Nashville reveals a disturbing pattern of ICE and state troopers using minor traffic stops to target Black and brown drivers.
Thanks to a series of Supreme Court decisions, nearly 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies can — and do — use forced arbitration with consumers or workers.
The effect of the Supreme Court’s ruling could be as little as one House seat in Louisiana in 2026, but pressure is building on Tennessee and South Carolina Republicans to act.
The expected flood of new congressional maps is likely to produce fewer competitive districts, fewer ways for voters to hold elected officials accountable and more polarized politics.
The Supreme Court just overturned Louisiana’s congressional voting map, landing the latest blow to the landmark Voting Rights Act. Abbie VanSickle, a reporter covering the court for The New York Times, explains.
The passage of the landmark law in 1965 helped increase Black representation, especially in the South, according to a Times analysis.
Since his early days as a lawyer and in his first years on the bench, the chief justice has worked to limit the force of the Voting Rights Act.
The court struck down Louisiana’s voting map, a decision that could make it harder for lawmakers to create majority-minority districts.
Veterans of the civil rights movement and others said the Supreme Court decision felt like a bleak end to decades of gains in Black representation in the region.
The majority said the law was a victim of its own success and no longer needed. Dissenters responded that Congress should make the call.
The justices on Wednesday considered whether the Trump administration had legally ended the Temporary Protected Status program for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians.
There were at least 10 American billionaires, six Fox News hosts, assorted presidential pals, no Democratic politicians and not so many British.
In the name of disentangling race from politics, the court has given white voters more power at the expense of racial minorities.
Both parties are now scrambling to adjust to a new voting rights landscape.
Ford Motor said it expected the federal government to refund $1.3 billion the company paid in tariffs that the Supreme Court later struck down.
The federal law had been a “game changer” for Latino voters, but Wednesday’s ruling could weaken Asian Americans’ political power in the state.
Democrats had earned a slight advantage with a victory in Virginia last week, but now a Supreme Court decision and Florida’s move to pass a new map are set to help Republicans.
The state faces a tight window to redraw its congressional maps.
A crisis pregnancy group had asked the justices to allow it to sue in federal court over a demand for donor information by New Jersey officials.
Their appearance seemed at odds with the chief justice’s oft-stated message that the court he leads avoids even the appearance of political splits.
The new map could give Republicans as many as four new seats in the state’s 28-member delegation, which already has 20 Republicans.
Here’s a look at some key events that led to and followed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Haitians played a pivotal role in revitalizing the once struggling Ohio city. The end of Temporary Protected Status could be a setback for its future.
Democrats will lose at least one blue-leaning district in Louisiana, and Florida is drawing a redder map. South Carolina, Tennessee and Missouri could try to draw new maps before voting begins.
The court has allowed the Trump administration to end protections on a temporary basis in other cases while they are litigated.
While some from countries with Temporary Protected Status stay for many years, others have been sent home with little fanfare when their countries were deemed safe.
The court struck down Louisiana’s voting map as an illegal racial gerrymander in a move that could make it harder for lawmakers to create majority-minority voting districts.
Emails revealed in a California lawsuit and now submitted to the Supreme Court show that an administration researcher privately disputed claims about Haitians.
The Trump administration urged the justices to rely on earlier terse emergency rulings and explain “what to make of this court’s interim orders.”
Plus, why nursing homes are hiring M.M.A. fighters.
Body camera footage reveals a disturbing pattern of state and federal officials using minor traffic stops to target Black and brown drivers.
The Trump administration wants to terminate humanitarian protections known as Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of migrants from Haiti and Syria.
The court’s decision could have broader implications for lawsuits seeking to hold companies liable for international human rights abuses.
Because of a February Supreme Court decision, General Motors said it would receive refunds on some of the tariffs it had paid.
The effort to dismantle Temporary Protected Status, or T.P.S., is part of a shift away from providing humanitarian assistance to people from troubled countries.
Haiti’s revolution shocked the world. America still isn’t over it.
The case could help determine the future of thousands of lawsuits against the maker of a popular herbicide over claims that it causes cancer.
The Republican-controlled Legislature is meeting in Tallahassee this week to vote on the map, which would apply for the 2026 midterms if passed.
Geofence searches allow law enforcement to find suspects and witnesses by sweeping up location data from cellphone users near crime scenes.
President Isaac Herzog of Israel has decided not to issue a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his corruption case at this time, and instead will seek mediation, officials say.
The court that paused a 2023 law allowing state and local police officers to arrest migrants has now ruled that the measure is legal, a decision likely to be appealed.
What moving deadlines — and red lines — in Iran means for America’s leverage.
In our constitutional system, we have to think about what will happen when the tables are turned.
The Times unearthed memos that signaled a major shift in the court’s operations, in a decision that critics say was rushed and flawed.
Readers respond to The Times’s front-page investigation of the court. Also: Lee Zeldin and the E.P.A.; talking to Iran.
The justices sided with Michigan officials, who have raised environmental alarms and pushed to decommission an aging section of the pipeline.
An American soldier was injured in a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan. The justices cleared the way for the soldier to proceed with a lawsuit against a military contractor.
In a year of grim climate and environment news, we’ve compiled several hopeful signs about our planet’s future.
Publication of a trove of confidential Supreme Court memos ignited debates in the legal academy.
AT&T and Verizon were penalized millions of dollars for what the agency said was a failure to protect consumer information. The companies say they were deprived of their right to a jury trial.
El gobierno de EE. UU. presentará un sistema para reembolsar a importadores dos meses después de que la Corte Suprema anulara los aranceles al centro de la política comercial del presidente.
Catholic preschools in Colorado that decline to enroll families with L.G.B.T.Q. children or parents sued to participate in a state-funded program.
We go behind the scenes at the nation’s highest court.
Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power.
He was one of 5 University of Buffalo faculty members fired for not signing loyalty oaths. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled in their favor.
Read 16 pages of internal deliberations from the Supreme Court that the New York Times has obtained, bringing the origins of the court’s “shadow docket” into the light.
Confidential memos written by the justices shed light on how they came to issue emergency orders in cases about the scope of presidential power.
Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket. Our reporter Jodi Kantor explains what these documents reveal about the court.
Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power.
The New York Times obtained a trove of documents illuminating the inner workings of the court as it embraced a secretive track for making major decisions.
The companies had asked the justices to clear the way to move environmental lawsuits out of state courts, to friendlier federal venues.
President Trump won’t be able to defy the courts if he loses his Supreme Court case on birthright citizenship, which he is likely to do, the conservative court watcher Sarah Isgur argues on “Interesting Times.”
President Trump’s efforts to rule through executive order on issues like tariffs and birthright citizenship have largely failed — and will continue to fail — the conservative court watcher Sarah Isgur argues on “Interesting Times.”
Penn & Teller filed a Supreme Court brief questioning the use of “investigative hypnosis” in a death-penalty case in Texas.
A conservative court watcher explains why the president has failed to bend the judicial branch to his will.
The Florida governor is expected to propose a congressional map that could result in up to five new Republican-leaning seats. Some in the party fear it could backfire.
At the University of Kansas School of Law last week, she criticized her colleague while discussing his views in an immigration-related case.
A court fight over Itamar Ben-Gvir, an extremist who oversees the police, pits the attorney general against Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing government.
An Alabama parent, he objected to prayer in his children’s classrooms. The Supreme Court ruled for him, a high-water mark in the push for the strict separation of church and state.
A three-judge panel allowed construction on the ballroom to proceed until April 17, but asked a lower court to untangle the details of the president’s plans.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. is the subject of intense speculation about whether he will retire in the coming months and give President Trump a fourth nominee.
Echoes of unexplained emergency orders in justices’ failures to say why they disqualified themselves from hearing cases.
The birds, exposed to the avian flu, were killed after Canada’s Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal and a rescue effort by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fell short.
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.