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The Supreme Court says it will continue providing live audio broadcasts of arguments in cases.

The Supreme Court doesn’t appear to have found the person who leaked a draft of the court’s major abortion decision last spring.

Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch have suggested there could soon be an update into the Dobbs v. Jackson leak investigation. The inquiry has lasted months.

Jen Psaki, former Biden White House press secretary and new member of the MSNBC family, talks with Alex Wagner about how Republicans overreach through courts stacked by Donald Trump has made them the target of midterm voters who might otherwise be focused on President Biden and congressional Democrats.

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is cautioning that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to.

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is cautioning that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to.

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Monday cautioned that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to. Speaking less than three months after a five-justice conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade's constitutional guarantee of abortion access, Kagan said the public's view of the court can be damaged especially when changes in its membership lead to big changes in the law. “Judges create legitimacy problems for themselves ... when they instead stray into places where it looks like they’re an extension of the political process or when they’re imposing their own personal preferences,” Kagan said at Temple Emanu-El in New York.

Former President Barack Obama told the Harvard men’s basketball team that the sport taught him “it wasn’t just about me.”.

About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices.

The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions.

Justice Elena Kagan warned that the court losing connection with the public is 'a dangerous thing for democracy.'

Speaking in Montana, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said it's problematic for the court when longstanding precedent is discarded.

The Supreme Court won’t allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that prioritizes deportation of people in the U.S. illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.

Until last week when he swore in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, his successor on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer had a rigorous, intellectually challenging job with the highest of stakes.

Abortion, guns, religion.

The Supreme Court limited the ability of the EPA in a landmark decision released Thursday. But the EPA and state governments still have many tools in their arsenal.

The EPA is no longer allowed to provide the kind of systemwide regulation that could efficiently lower greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority.

The good news is the justices sidestepped the famous Chevron doctrine. But they articulated what is in effect a new doctrine of administrative law.

The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is set to be sworn in as the court's 116th justice on Thursday.

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.

The Supreme Court on Thursday handed down a major ruling that narrowed the EPA's power to combat climate change.

Placeholder while article actions loadThe Supreme Court on Thursday sharply cut back the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to reduce the carbon output of existing power plants, a blow to President Biden’s commitment to battle climate change. AdvertisementThe court was considering the powers granted by the Clean Air Act, which was written decades ago, before climate change was widely recognized as a worldwide crisis. The Supreme Court in 2016 stopped the Obama administration’s plan to drastically reduce power plants’ carbon output. For that reason, the administration and environmentalists were stunned when the Supreme Court took the case. Apple, Tesla and other major tech and retail firms investing in renewable energy, meanwhile, told the court that “stable, nationwide rules” are needed to avert climate disaster.

The Supreme Court has made it easier for certain prison inmates to seek shorter sentences under a bipartisan 2018 federal law aimed at reducing racial disparities in prison terms for cocaine crimes.

The Supreme Court ruling to overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision is unpopular with a majority of Americans — but did that matter.

Making a federal law a priority would divert conservatives’ attention from pressing political battles in the states. It would also divide them.

More than a month ago, a stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicated that the Supreme Court was prepared to take the momentous step of overruling the Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and stripping away women's constitutional protections for abortion.

The nine justices of the Supreme Court made clear in their landmark ruling Friday whether they stand on abortion.

Sweeping Supreme Court rulings on guns and abortion this past week have sent an unmistakable message.

The majority overruled Roe and Casey "because it has always despised them," wrote Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in a joint dissent.

The Supreme Court issued its biggest gun rights ruling in more than a decade Thursday.

The court also found that law enforcement officers cannot be sued for failing to inform criminal suspects about their Miranda rights.

The Supreme Court has ruled law enforcement officers can’t be sued for money damages when they violate the rights of criminal suspects by failing to provide the familiar Miranda warning before questioning them.

The Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders.

A source told NPR clerks act as diplomats for justices, but the fear that their professional lives are under threat is straining the Supreme Court.

In a 5-to-4 vote, the court granted a request from Big Tech industry trade groups, which argued the law would unleash a flood of racist, hateful and other extremist content on social media platforms.

A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints.

The law would bar social media companies from removing posts based on a user’s political ideology.

With mass shootings in Texas, New York and California fresh in Americans’ mind, the Supreme Court will soon issue its biggest gun ruling in more than a decade.

The Supreme Court has ruled along ideological lines against two Arizona death row inmates who had argued that their lawyers did a poor job representing them in state court.

Robyn Morgan, who sued over unpaid overtime, had sought to stop Taco Bell franchisee Sundance Inc. from taking her case to arbitration.

At issue was a federal law that has been on the books for 20 years that barred federal candidates from raising more than $250,000 to repay loans made to their campaigns.

The Supreme Court split along ideological lines and agreed with Sen. Ted Cruz’s challenge to a law limiting post-election political contributions to repay a candidate’s loan to his campaign.

The Supreme Court has sided with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in his challenge to a provision of federal campaign finance law.

The Supreme Court’s nine justices met in private for the first time since the leak of a draft opinion that would overrule Roe v.

The fertile mind of Justice Stephen Breyer has conjured a stream of hypothetical questions through the years that have, in the words of a colleague, “befuddled” lawyers and justices alike.

More Americans approve than disapprove of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as its first Black female justice, a new poll finds, but that support is politically lopsided.

The Supreme Court says that a federal appeals court was wrong to order Michigan to retry or release a convicted murderer because his rights were violated when he was shackled at trial.

The justices decide other low-profile cases as well, including the proper venue for a legal fight over Impressionist art turned over to the Nazis.

The Supreme Court is keeping alive a California man’s hope of reclaiming a valuable impressionist masterpiece taken from his family by the Nazis and now on display in a Spanish museum.

The Cassirer family says that it, not a museum in Madrid, Spain, owns a Camille Pissarro painting surrendered to the Nazis before World War II.

You have the right to remain silent.

Tearfully embracing a history-making moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court shows the progress of America.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will join a Supreme Court that is both more diverse than ever and more conservative than it’s been since the 1930s.

The Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court.

Conservatives on the Supreme Court Wednesday reinstated for now a Trump-era environmental rule that limited the ability of states to block projects that could pollute rivers and streams, a decision more notable because Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined liberals in calling it an abuse of the court’s emergency powers.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated for now a Trump-era rule that curtails the power of states and Native American tribes to block pipelines and other energy projects that can pollute rivers, streams and other waterways. The high court's action does not interfere with the Biden administration's plan to rewrite the rule. Work on a revision has begun, but the administration has said a final rule is not expected until the spring of 2023. The court’s three liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts dissented.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he won’t vote for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Running through the recent history of justices weighing whether to step aside — and then deciding against it.

Reports that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas implored Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff to act to overturn the 2020 election results have put a spotlight on how justices decide whether to step aside from a case.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson says that if confirmed to the Supreme Court she’d sit out an affirmative action lawsuit over Harvard’s admission policies because she sits on the board of her college alma mater.

The Supreme Court has thrown out Wisconsin state legislative maps that were preferred by the state’s Democratic governor and selected by Wisconsin’s top court, a win for Republicans that also makes it unclear what boundaries will be in place for the fall election.

In the wake of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement in January, President Joe Biden has nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to be his replacement.

The justices agree that William Dale Wooden's prison sentence was too long.

The Supreme Court is narrowing the reach of a federal law that strengthens penalties for career criminals found to illegally have a gun.

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a criminal defendant who the justices found had been handed an overly harsh sentence based on lower courts' mistaken application of a law. The crux of the case turned on how many criminal "occasions" occurred one night in 1997 when William Dale Wooden and three others entered a single-building storage facility in Georgia, smashed through the drywall separating different storage areas within and stole...

The Supreme Court was reviewing the decision of a federal appeals court in Boston that overturned the death sentence imposed on Dzokhar Tsarnaev. The 2013 attack killed three people.

The Supreme Court has sided with the U.S. government and dismissed a case involving a Guantanamo Bay detainee seeking what the government said is secret information.

A bed-and-breakfast on the U.S.-Canada border that officials say is a magnet for illegal border crossings, was the setting of a case heard Wednesday at the Supreme Court.

President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court has launched what Democrats hope will be a quick, bipartisan confirmation process for the court’s first Black woman.

I’m questioning the ease with which a decision in your favor will make it for an incoming administration to avoid notice-and-comment review,” the chief justice said to Deputy Solicitor General Brian H. Fletcher, representing the Biden administration. AdvertisementFletcher told the court the incoming Biden administration thought the rule was wrong, as well as ineffective. The Biden administration acquiesced to the Illinois judge’s decision, and moved to dismiss the remaining cases around the country. Why can’t a new administration simply comply with an adverse lower court ruling if it thinks the rule is incorrect? “This case can be resolved on that straightforward basis alone.”Meanwhile, Fletcher said the Biden administration is at work on a new version of the immigration rule.

The Supreme Court is wading into a political clash between the Biden administration and Republican-led states seeking to defend a signature Trump-era immigration rule that the new administration has abandoned.

Ex-President Donald Trump's DHS reinterpreted when a non-U.S. citizen is likely to become a 'public charge' and therefore ineligible for permanent residency.

If President Joe Biden’s search for a nominee to the Supreme Court could be summed up by a Help Wanted ad it might read: “Seeking a well-respected liberal jurist.

President Joe Biden has already made history by nominating more public defenders, civil rights attorneys and nonprofit lawyers to the federal bench during his first year in office than past presidents.

The Supreme Court’s decision to halt efforts to create a second mostly Black congressional district in Alabama for the 2022 election has sparked fresh warnings that the court is eroding the Voting Rights Act and reviving the need for Congress to intervene.

A lower court had ordered the GOP legislature to draw a second Black-majority district.

A lower court had ordered the GOP legislature to draw a second Black-majority district.

Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham say it'd be good if the person named to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer doesn’t have an Ivy League degree.

Leondra Kruger, who is on President Biden's Supreme Court shortlist, argued on behalf of the Obama administration in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement gives President Joe Biden a chance to make his first nomination to the high court.

President Joe Biden has strongly affirmed that he will nominate the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Multiple sources say Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is planning to retire.

President Biden promised during his campaign to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court. Now, he may have the chance.

President Joe Biden is eyeing at least three judges for an expected vacancy on the Supreme Court, and each of them would fulfill his campaign pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the nation’s highest court.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged the Supreme Court in a friend-of-the-court brief to use Cruz's case as a vehicle to scrap the entire 2002 campaign finance law.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged the Supreme Court in a friend-of-the-court brief to use Cruz's case as a vehicle to scrap the entire 2002 campaign finance law.

Anybody who regularly watches Supreme Court arguments is used to seeing testy moments But you don't have to be a keen observer these days to see that something out of the ordinary is happening.

On Dec. 1, the Supreme Court will consider a Mississippi law that could overturn Roe v. Wade — the 1973 ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion. Here's what we know about where each justice stands on the issue.

The Supreme Court is considering whether to uphold an appeals court's decision to overturn Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence.

The Supreme Court is having a credibility crisis as fewer and fewer Americans believe that it is a nonpartisan, unbiased institution.

The return to in-person proceedings was announced more than a year after the coronavirus pandemic forced the Supreme Court to hear cases over the phone.

There can be no more doubts how Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett feel about abortion rights

Chief Justice Roberts, 3 other dissenters slam colleagues for hastily rewarding Texas 'bounty hunter' abortion ban scheme

The right-wing majority on the Supreme Court just undercut the Voting Rights Act again. The right-wing justices continue their assault on the meaning and power of the Voting Rights Act, a triumph of the civil rights movement that Justice Elena Kagan, writing in dissent, noted represents the “best in America.” The reaction against the civil rights movement continues. Now, after the civil rights movement, the Voting Rights Act and the election of Barack Obama, the reaction has been fierce. Voter suppression following the civil rights movement was ratified in Shelby v. Holder and now in Brnovich vs. the DNC, that have essentially gutted the Voting Rights Act, the crown jewel of the civil rights movement. Once more, those standing in the way of equality under the law will find that the movement for justice will not be deterred.

What many regard as the most important civil rights law in American history has been left a mocking, hollow shell.

What many regard as the most important civil rights law in American history has been left a mocking, hollow shell.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an Alabama inmate whose lawyers argued that his trial counsel should have done more to try to show he is intellectually disabled and therefore he should be spared a death sentence. In an unsigned 6-3 opinion, the conservative majority on Friday reversed an 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals finding and said that a state court had correctly rejected claims that Matthew Reeves had ineffective counsel at trial because they did not hire a neuropsychologist to present evidence he is intellectually disabled. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Elena Kagan, said the majority’s decision continues a “troubling trend in which this Court strains to reverse summarily any grants of relief to those facing execution.”

Justice Elena Kagan decries the Supreme Court's 'tragic' voting rights decision in scathing dissent

The court, by a 6-3 vote, reversed a lower court ruling in deciding that Arizona’s limits on who can return early ballots.