By Adam Liptak

The Trump administration had asked the justices to overturn a trial judge’s ruling that blocked the first four federal executions scheduled in nearly two decades.

Delaware tries to achieve partisan balance on its courts. A federal appeals said that violates the First Amendment.

The justices will soon say whether they will hear the case, about a House subpoena, along with one concerning a subpoena from Manhattan prosecutors.

The justices seemed wary of letting landowners sue the Atlantic Richfield Company to force it to do more than a federal cleanup plan requires.

Arguments in the court’s first case on the scope of the Second Amendment in nearly a decade focused on whether the repeal of a New…

Following a change in personnel, the court could expand the scope of Second Amendment rights and chastise lower courts that have upheld gun control laws.

The court set a brisk briefing schedule in the case, which concerns a subpoena from a House committee.

The court also turned away an appeal from Adnan Syed, whose case was the subject of the first season of the podcast “Serial.”

The president has vowed to ask the justices to intercede, but the Constitution and precedents are against him.

The justice, 86, who was treated for chills and a fever, has had a series of health scares in the past year.