Adam Liptak

The case concerned a federal law that calls for stiff sentences for gun crimes when the defendant had committed three felonies “on occasions different from…

New York prisons will not release people convicted of some sex offenses until they find housing far from schools. But that is hard to do,…

In a narrow and unanimous decision, the justices ruled that a 1978 law governing national security surveillance did not displace the state secrets doctrine.

The Biden administration, which announced a moratorium on federal executions, has pursued the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who helped carry out the 2013 bombings.

After the state’s political landscape shifted in 2019, state officials of different parties disagreed about who should represent the state in the case.

Drawing on childhood grammar lessons, the justices considered whether the doctors were entitled to argue that they had acted in good faith.

Most of her opinions came from her time as a trial judge, and some scholars said such writings offered only hints about a judge’s legal…

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s replacement of Justice Stephen G. Breyer substitutes a liberal for a liberal and would not shift the basic dynamic of the…

After the Biden administration abandoned the policy, which tightened the “public charge” rule for green card applicants, Republican-led states sought to intervene.

The case may settle a question left open in 2018: how to reconcile claims of religious liberty with laws barring discrimination based on sexual orientation.