Adam Liptak

The justices have all but stopped issuing summary reversals, which are unsigned decisions used to correct clear errors by lower courts.

The court’s order indicated that it may return to the issue as soon as next week, when a trial judge’s temporary restraining order is set...

The justices unanimously ruled that the plaintiffs had not established a connection to the United States required by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

The court’s conservative majority may be receptive to the argument that presidents have unlimited power to remove leaders of independent agencies.

Speaking in general terms at a Florida college and not naming President Trump, the Supreme Court justice’s remarks took on potency in the current climate.

Law professors have long debated what the term means. But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the...

Attacked by two justices, lower-court judges and litigants, the 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan keeps getting cited approvingly in the Supreme Court’s...

An administration lawyer said a Tennessee law barring some medical treatments for transgender youths is constitutional and urged the justices to say so.

If the case reaches the Supreme Court, its conservative majority will be receptive to Donald J. Trump’s argument that presidents have unlimited power to remove...

The 14th Amendment overturned the 1857 decision that denied citizenship to Black people. Scholars say President Trump’s proposal betrays that history.

The Corporate Transparency Act, which requires businesses to disclose ownership information, was blocked by a federal judge as beyond Congress’s authority.

The justices heard arguments over whether courts must limit their scrutiny of challenges to police shootings to “the moment of threat.”