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A Thought Experiment at the Supreme Court Over How to Sue a Country
Sailors injured in the 2000 bombing of the destroyer Cole won a $314 default judgment. It was at risk at the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Midterms Deliver an American Stalemate
A rebuke to President Trump in the overall returns, but not a presidency-ending repudiation. Two years of chaos and hysteria ending in a return to…
‘It Was All Fake,’ Trump Misleadingly Says of Kavanaugh Accusations
The president’s carefully worded references to a woman who wasn’t central to the debate about Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh were a staple of his final…
Kavanaugh May Hold Key Vote in His First Death Penalty Case
A death row inmate in Missouri with a rare medical condition prefers lethal gas to the state’s method, lethal injection, which he said would cause…
A Field Guide to Today’s Elections
We look at how four major issues — immigration, the Supreme Court, guns and health care — are shaping voters’ choices.
Justices Seem to Support Virginia’s Uranium Mining Ban
The case concerns a clash between a federal law that oversees uranium production and a state moratorium that by its terms addresses only extraction.
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Net Neutrality Challenges
The justices turned down several petitions seeking review of a Federal Communications Commission action that has since been reversed.
Supreme Court Lets Youths’ Case Demanding Climate Action Proceed
The court said that the Trump administration had raised substantial questions about the plaintiffs’ legal theories, but that the plaintiffs should take the case back…
Supreme Court Allows Trial on Census Citizenship Question to Go Forward
The order came a little over a week after the court granted the administration a partial victory in the case by temporarily blocking the deposition…
Supreme Court to Rule on 40-Foot War Memorial Cross
An appeals court said the cross, in suburban Maryland, violated the First Amendment’s ban on government establishment of religion.