Adam Liptak

The court’s order said the questioning allowed by lower courts was limited and subject to appropriate safeguards.

The court’s conservative supermajority may be skeptical of admissions programs at Harvard and U.N.C. that take account of race to foster educational diversity.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday about admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina — and the meaning of a…

The justice’s “administrative stay” of a subpoena for an Arizona Republican’s phone records was not an indication of how the Supreme Court would rule.

The leak of a draft opinion, he said, “gave people a rational reason to think” the eventual decision could be prevented “by killing one of…

The justice’s order was an “administrative stay” that will almost certainly not be the Supreme Court’s last word on the matter.

A district attorney in Texas, convinced that the evidence that sent Areli Escobar to death row was flawed, is supporting his request for a new…

Though the justice’s brief order gave no reasons, it was most likely based on the challenger’s seeming failure to show that it had standing to…

Without comment or any noted dissents, the court issued a one-sentence statement that amounted to a stinging rebuke to the former president.

In a lively argument over copyright law that included many references to pop culture, the justices struggled to determine when a new work transforms an…