In its 2023–2024 term, the conservative wing of the Supreme Court issued a slew of landmark rulings that stripped great swaths of power from federal executive agencies while se . . .
In its 2021–2022 term, the conservative wing of the U.S. Supreme Court issued a slew of landmark rulings, including one that overturned Roe v. Wade and another tha . . .
The Supreme Court’s courtroom was empty on the morning of June 24, 2022, even though the press corps had widely reported speculation that the Court was ready on that day to issue a . . .
With only two weeks before the start of the Court’s 2020 term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, senior member of the Supreme Court’s liberal bloc for a decade, died on September . . .
The Supreme Court was almost halfway through its October 2019 term when the coronavirus pandemic first reached the United States on January 21, 2020. The federal Centers for Disease Contro . . .
The Supreme Court opened its 2018 term on October 1, the traditional First Monday in October, with one seat vacant and partisan rancor at a peak across the street in the U.S. Capitol and a . . .
For years, Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy had been steadfastly mum whenever asked about any plans for eventual retirement despite the swirl of speculation about his possible depa . . .
The Supreme Court opened its 2016 term on the traditional First Monday in October with one seat vacant and a lighter than usual calendar of cases teed up for argument and decision ov . . .
Both sides in the emotional debate on abortion were massed on the sidewalks in front of the Supreme Court plaza on the morning of June 27, 2016, as the justices inside prepared to issue the last three . . .
Jim Obergefell was there in the courtroom when Supreme Court justices heard the landmark same-sex marriage case bearing his name. Obergefell was one of thirty plaintiffs in all, from f . . .
Politics, religion, and law mixed as demonstrators crowded the sidewalk in front of the Supreme Court building on June 30, the final decision day of the Court’s 2013-2014 term. . . .
The crowd in front of the Supreme Court plaza on the morning of June 26 resembled nothing more than a gay pride rally. Gay men, lesbians, and their straight allies, surely many more th . . .
Raucous crowds massed early in front of the Supreme Court plaza on the morning of June 28, 2012, as the justices prepared to announce their decision on the Court’s most closely watched, most pol . . .
Betty Dukes took a few days off from her job as a “greeter” at the Wal-Mart store in her hometown of Pittsburg, California, to go to Washington, D.C., in March 2011 to attend Supreme Court . . .
Elena Kagan could not have picked a more challenging assignment for her first argument in an appellate court. Less than four months after being confirmed as solicitor general of the United States, Kag . . .
From the start, Sonia Sotomayor’s admirers and detractors agreed that her life and career embodied an American success story: a rise from humble beginnings to the top of the legal profession. Bu . . .
Combatants on opposing sides of the gun wars gathered in front of the Supreme Court plaza early on the morning of June 26, 2008, to await an historic ruling on the scope of the Second Amendment’ . . .
The maroon curtains behind the Supreme Court bench parted promptly at 10 o'clock on the morning of June 28, 2007. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. led the way as he and the eight other justices took . . .
June 1973: Republican Richard Nixon is president, though some of his closest aides and advisers are awaiting trial on charges of covering up the Watergate break-in. Democrats control both houses of Co . . .
Election Night, November 7, 2000. Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore have fought down to the wire for the presidency of the United States. More than 101 million Americans have voted, but t . . .
Abortion. Gay rights. Aid to parochial schools. School prayer. Violence against women. Police interrogation. Campaign finance. Tobacco. Grandparents' rights. Hate crimes. . . .
The opinion of the Court in number 98-436, Alden against Maine, will be announced by Justice Kennedy.” The Supreme Court of the United States was about to announce its last decisions for the 199 . . .
Beth Ann Faragher, Kimberly Ellerth, and Joseph Oncale came from different parts of the country and different backgrounds. They had never met, but they shared a common experience. All three said they . . .
President Bill Clinton was at the top of his form. He had just negotiated an agreement with Republican congressional leaders that promised to balance the federal budget in five years. The economy was . . .
Bob Dole cinched the Republican presidential nomination early in the 1996 primary season and began testing themes he hoped to use in the fall campaign. So in April, he turned to a topic that had . . .
Affirmative action was one of the country's hottest political issues at the start of 1995. The Supreme Court had helped stir the controversy by agreeing in the fall to hear a white contractor's challe . . .
Stephen Breyer had a bad year—at least a few bad days—in 1993. First came the bicycle accident. The longtime federal appellate judge, who regularly biked between his work at the U.S. court . . .
Twenty-six years had passed since the last time a Democratic president appointed a member of the United States Supreme Court. The politics of the country—and the Court—had changed dramatic . . .
Moreso than at any other time in the history of the Supreme Court, the justices are confronting issues involving family problems and lifestyle questions. A generation ago the Court was known for takin . . .
Clarence Thomas, President George Bush's choice to succeed Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court, was poised to win confirmation in early October 1991. But two days before the Senate vote was schedul . . .
Less was known about David H. Souter than any other Supreme Court nominee in the past quarter-century. So said Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Joseph R. Biden, Jr., when the committee was consider . . .