Adam Liptak

Preliminary draft materials suggested that adding justices might be seen as a “partisan maneuver,” but said that an 18-year tenure merits “serious consideration.”

The Biden administration has pursued the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in spite of its own moratorium on capital punishment.

After the state’s political landscape shifted in 2019, the Democratic governor and the Republican attorney general disagreed on defending the law.

Twenty years after the Sept. 11 attacks, three justices said it was time to hear from the first detainee subjected to brutal interrogation by the…

As a term packed with major cases begins, much has changed since the last in-person arguments took place in March 2020.

When the Supreme Court hears arguments this fall in a big abortion case from Mississippi, it will consider dueling accounts of international practices.

The court, which is dominated by six Republican appointees, will confront a charged docket, including a case asking it to overrule Roe v. Wade.

The Supreme Court justice is fully vaccinated, a court spokeswoman said, and is not showing symptoms.

The new filing asks the justices to use an unusual procedure to rule on a law that bans most abortions after six weeks and was…

The justices will soon consider whether to hear a case arguing that the First Amendment requires disclosure of a secret court’s major rulings.