Adam Liptak

Such tribunals, common in executive agencies, hear enforcement actions without juries, a practice that challengers said violated the Constitution.

Three states challenged the administration’s “good neighbor” plan, meant to protect downwind states from harmful emissions.

The case, one of several this term on how the First Amendment applies to technology platforms, was dismissed on the ground that the plaintiffs lacked...

A new study analyzed 50 years of friend-of-the-court briefs and found that abortion opponents were more relentless than their adversaries, with some reflected in the...

The justices rejected a Second Amendment challenge to a federal law that makes it a crime for people subject to domestic violence restraining orders to...

Sylvia Gonzalez, a Texas city councilwoman, said officials violated the First Amendment by arresting her after she criticized the city manager.

Even as the size of the court’s docket has shrunk, it has deferred a larger share of its decisions to the very end of its...

The decision was unanimous but fractured in rationale, with several justices objecting to the majority’s use of a history-based test.

The opinion in the case focused entirely on standing, the legal doctrine that requires plaintiffs to show that they have suffered direct and concrete injuries...

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., once close allies, have embraced starkly different conceptions of the judicial role.

The justices will soon decide whether to hear a case that could affect more than two dozen youths sentenced to die in prison.

Legal ethicists welcomed the fact that the justice gave reasons for staying on two Jan. 6 cases, a break from court tradition. But they said...