Adam Liptak

After the Biden administration abandoned the policy, which tightened the “public charge” rule for green card applicants, Republican-led states sought to intervene.

The case may settle a question left open in 2018: how to reconcile claims of religious liberty with laws barring discrimination based on sexual orientation.

The justices agreed to hear the Biden administration’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that blocked it from rescinding the program.

Dennis Hope, who has been held in solitary confinement in a Texas prison for more than half his life, asked the Supreme Court to set...

A special three-judge court had ordered lawmakers to redraw the lines, saying Black voters “have less opportunity” than other Alabamians to elect their favored candidates.

A special three-judge court had ordered lawmakers to redraw the lines, saying Black voters “have less opportunity” than other Alabamians to elect their favored candidates.

The replacement of Justice Stephen G. Breyer with another liberal is unlikely to alter the basic dynamic at the court or to slow its accelerating...

At 45, she would be younger than all but one of the current justices were when they were nominated.

He pledged during the 2020 campaign to nominate a Black woman to the court.

His voting over the years was generally similar to that of other Democratic appointees, if perhaps a little more conservative.

The court’s new conservative supermajority may be skeptical of admissions programs that take account of race to foster educational diversity.

But the justices rejected a request from state officials to revisit a 2020 ruling that much of eastern Oklahoma falls within an Indian reservation.