The Latest Breaking News from Antonin Scalia

When United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died with 10 months left in President Barack Obama’s second term, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader at the time, took the extreme step of refusing to hold hearings for his nominated replacement, Merrick Garland.

As Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, John Roberts has enjoyed one of the most powerful positions in American society. But when Donald Trump installed three of his own picks on the bench, suddenly everything changed.

After the recent mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, Congress enacted the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the most important gun violence prevention law in three decades. But days earlier, on June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association Inc. v.…

The U.S. Supreme Court reshaped the legal landscape in dramatic ways in the past few months, and it may just be getting started.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday for the major coal-producing states and sharply limited the Biden administration’s authority to restrict the carbon pollution that is causing global warming.

For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas sat mostly silent on the Supreme Court bench, content to let others debate the controversies of the day. Because Thomas would not argue in public, court watchers had no idea of how he processed arguments beyond his written dissents and concurrences.

National legislation and extraterritorial application of state laws are inconsistent with the local leeway that the Constitution protects.

Democrats can’t fix the past. But the least they can do is learn from it – and change course accordingly

Liberals won't reconcile themselves to Dobbs, any more than conservatives accepted Roe v. Wade and Casey.

The end of Roe v. Wade started in the Senate