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Adam Liptak
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Death Penalty Law Puts Burden on the Intellectually Disabled
The Supreme Court will decide whether to hear a challenge to the law, which requires that defendants in capital cases who are intellectually disabled prove…
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Block Release of Jan. 6 Records
The case is a constitutional clash on the scope of executive privilege and on whether a former president may invoke it when the current one…
Supreme Court to Hold Special Hearing on Biden Vaccine Mandates
Challengers say vaccination or testing requirements at large employers and for health care workers were not authorized by Congress.
Supreme Court Allows Vaccine Mandate for New York Healthcare Workers
Doctors and nurses challenged a state coronavirus vaccine requirement that had medical but not religious exemptions, saying it violated their right to free exercise of…
With Roe at Risk, Justices Explore a New Way to Question Precedents
A new study traces a trend at the Supreme Court: looking to what the lawyers had argued in assessing whether to follow a precedent.
Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect
The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect…
Supreme Court Seems Wary of Ban on State Aid to Religious Schools
The case, concerning a tuition program in Maine, seemed likely to extend a winning streak at the court for parents seeking public funds for religious…
Critical Moment for Roe, and the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy
As justices consider Mississippi’s restrictive abortion law, scholars debate what a reversal of Roe v. Wade would mean for the court’s credibility.
Supreme Court Seems Poised to Uphold Mississippi’s Abortion Law
It was less clear whether the court’s conservative majority would overrule Roe v. Wade, the decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion.
Supreme Court's Mississippi Abortion Case: What to Watch
The New York Times will be streaming the oral arguments and providing live coverage of the proceedings when they begin at 10 a.m. Eastern.