Adam Liptak

Some justices said the court was powerless to grant relief to the inmate, Richard Glossip. Others seemed ready to order a new trial or at...

Both sides told the Supreme Court that long-suppressed evidence about the state’s star witness undermined the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip.

The administration said a state abortion law conflicted with a federal law requiring emergency care. The court similarly sidestepped a case from Idaho in June.

The justices considered a routine case on unemployment benefits in characteristic style, peppering the lawyers with questions and dropping hints about their views.

Aside from major disputes on issues like transgender rights and guns, the docket is fairly routine. That could change fast if the presidential race is...

The justices will consider whether a 2005 law that gives gun makers broad immunity applies in the case, which accuses them of complicity in supplying...

The justices will consider whether a 2005 law that gives gun makers broad immunity applies in the case, which accuses them of complicity in supplying...

The candidate had asked the justices to intervene after a state judge found that he had used an improper home address in election paperwork.

In June, the court tried to explain its new history-based approach to the Second Amendment. But judges said the latest decision “offered little instruction or...

Democrats had argued that Ms. Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate, was ineligible because the party had failed to submit a required statement.

Missouri sought to sue New York under the court’s “original jurisdiction,” which sometimes allows suits between states to be brought directly to the justices.

Critics say the immunity ruling is flawed for reasons similar to those the court gave for overturning Roe, which had established a right to abortion.