Adam Liptak

The Biden administration had asked the court to block the law. State officials called the request procedurally flawed, saying the court was powerless to grant...

The unsigned decisions, without noted dissents, indicated that the court continued to support the widely criticized doctrine of qualified immunity.

Saying the law is “plainly unconstitutional,” the department also asked the court to add the case to its docket in its current term.

A sweeping statement in a 1928 opinion about property rights was revised soon after it was issued. But the error lived on.

Preliminary draft materials suggested that adding justices might be seen as a “partisan maneuver,” but said that an 18-year tenure merits “serious consideration.”

The Biden administration has pursued the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in spite of its own moratorium on capital punishment.

After the state’s political landscape shifted in 2019, the Democratic governor and the Republican attorney general disagreed on defending the law.

Twenty years after the Sept. 11 attacks, three justices said it was time to hear from the first detainee subjected to brutal interrogation by the...

As a term packed with major cases begins, much has changed since the last in-person arguments took place in March 2020.

When the Supreme Court hears arguments this fall in a big abortion case from Mississippi, it will consider dueling accounts of international practices.

The court, which is dominated by six Republican appointees, will confront a charged docket, including a case asking it to overrule Roe v. Wade.

The Supreme Court justice is fully vaccinated, a court spokeswoman said, and is not showing symptoms.