Adam Liptak

The justices ruled last week that the president could not, for now, remove a government lawyer who leads the watchdog agency that protects whistle-blowers.

Justices across the ideological spectrum and lawyers on both sides agreed that an appeals court erred in requiring members of majority groups to meet a…

Both sides had told the justices that long-suppressed evidence had undermined the case the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip.

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…