U.S. Supreme Court

Donald Trump will try to fill every judgeship that Democrats leave open.

By The Editorial Board

Donald J. Trump is set to regain office without clarity on the scope of presidential immunity and with a lingering cloud over whether outside special counsels can investigate high-level wrongdoing.

By Charlie Savage

Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative giant, said attempts to circumvent the Senate’s responsibility to vet nominees were “ignoble” and “just made up.”

By Adam Liptak

The once and future president’s constitutional gimmicks are embarrassingly transparent.

By David French

A conservative group argues that Congress gave the Federal Communications Commission too much discretion over an $8 billion fund.

By Adam Liptak

A few victories made it easy for Democrats to forget that the law is just another domain of politics where their enemies enjoy power too.

By Samuel Moyn

Three states are calling on the federal courts for help in making women have more babies.

By Linda Greenhouse

He argued 20 times before the Supreme Court and prepared witnesses like Marie Yovanovitch and Christine Blasey Ford for their congressional testimony.

By Richard Sandomir

The progressive stronghold in California plans to target large encampments, relying on a Supreme Court decision handed down by a conservative majority.

By Shawn Hubler

Her unusual approach to building bridges between her wealthy campus and its beleaguered hometown led to a Supreme Court case and a faculty revolt.

By Trip Gabriel

Democracy’s ultimate verdict has been delivered.

By Thomas Goldstein

The conservative legal group’s annual dinner featured a conversation between Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Neil M. Gorsuch, a conservative. Both stressed the importance of an independent judiciary.

By Adam Liptak

A renowned Supreme Court litigator, he argued the Republican side in Bush v. Gore, but later championed gay rights and undocumented children.

By Clay Risen

The case, which is in an early stage, accused the giant technology company of misleading investors about its exposure to the cryptocurrency industry.

By Adam Liptak

The once and future president is pushing Republicans to systematically abdicate the Senate’s constitutional role in vetting his nominees.

By Charlie Savage

The Supreme Court is largely to blame for the challenges it may face over the next four years.

By Stephen I. Vladeck

Readers discuss the production of the Bard’s plays today. Also: Elderly and physically active; investing in youth to reduce crime; political corruption.

Coaxing aging Supreme Court justices to give up their power and status during a window of political opportunity can be a delicate endeavor.

By Charlie Savage, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

In recent years, new administrations have not been shy about disavowing positions taken by their predecessors.

By Adam Liptak

The man, a former health care worker, was convicted in July on two charges stemming from the privacy breach and his attempts to cover it up.

By Aimee Ortiz

Donald J. Trump, the first felon elected president, has a sentencing scheduled for Nov. 26. He has many ways to avoid punishment.

By Ben Protess and Kate Christobek

By triumphing at the ballot box, Donald Trump can dispense with federal charges against him while postponing or derailing other pending cases that have dogged him.

By Devlin Barrett, Alan Feuer and Charlie Savage

Los expertos señalan que es poco probable que el tribunal termine ejerciendo un papel importante en el resultado, pero es posible. Te contamos por qué.

By Kate Christobek

It is unlikely that the court ends up playing a major role in the outcome, according to elections experts, but it is possible. Here’s why.

By Kate Christobek

The case, which will not affect this election cycle, involves a legal fight over how the state draws its voting maps and could determine the political power of Black voters there.

By Abbie VanSickle

Thousands of women rallied in the capital and across the country for a Kamala Harris presidency — and to proclaim their resistance to Republican aims to restrict women’s reproductive rights.

By Aishvarya Kavi

Republicans had sought to block the counting of provisional ballots by voters whose mail-in ballots were deemed invalid. Democrats celebrated the ruling as a win in a crucial state.

By Abbie VanSickle

You aren’t just choosing a candidate. You’re choosing a theory of power.

By Jamelle Bouie

A divided court sided with Republicans, allowing the state to cull about 1,600 voters less than a week before Election Day.

By Abbie VanSickle

Plus, refunds for canceled flights.

By Tracy Mumford, Peter Baker, Jack Nicas, Robert Jimison, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger

Since throwing his support behind former President Donald J. Trump, Mr. Kennedy has sought both to be removed from and to remain on various state ballots.

By Abbie VanSickle

Arbitration caught on for good reason, but it has drifted too far from its original purpose.

By Peter Coy

The insults hurled at Ms. Harris are a reminder of how Republican senators tried to shame me when I challenged Clarence Thomas’s fitness.

By Anita Hill

Activists on both sides say Trump could effectively ban abortion nationwide and establish fetal personhood, the longtime goal of the anti-abortion movement.

By Kate Zernike

A Republican super PAC is running ads invoking the name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to help Donald Trump win voters who favor abortion rights. Her family denounced the effort as “nothing short of appalling.”

By Shane Goldmacher, Theodore Schleifer, Maggie Haberman and Jodi Kantor

Trump’s great accomplishment is to spread the dangerous lie that our problems can be blamed on the weakest and most vulnerable in our midst.

By Jamelle Bouie

The former president’s request to file a new motion contesting how the special counsel got his job came on the same day he vowed to fire him if re-elected.

By Alan Feuer

Judges have vast influence over the biggest political questions. An analysis of President Biden and Donald J. Trump’s nominees found stark differences that could emerge again after November.

By Mattathias Schwartz and June Kim

Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis bonded with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. over Catholicism and ending abortion. She introduced him to her sumptuous world when he visited her Bavarian palace.

By Abbie VanSickle, Philip Kaleta and Ingmar Nolting

A Georgetown law professor argues that five rulings by the justices in recent years have allowed behavior that is “sketchy as hell” and meant to make the judiciary look good by contrast.

By Adam Liptak

The Supreme Court ruled in June that the original plaintiffs, anti-abortion doctors and groups, did not have standing to sue. Now three states are trying to continue the legal fight.

By Pam Belluck

A case involving TikTok may have opened the door to holding platforms liable for the damage they cause.

By Julia Angwin

The Supreme Court’s decision to not temporarily block an E.P.A. rule this week signals ‘rising influence’ of Justice Barrett, one analyst said.

By Karen Zraick

The former president’s legal team had objected to any release of material, saying it would amount to election interference.

By Alan Feuer and Charlie Savage

The justices heard arguments on Wednesday in a long-simmering dispute between San Francisco and the E.P.A. over regulation of water pollution.

By Abbie VanSickle

It was a provisional victory for the Biden administration, whose climate initiatives have been stymied. A challenge to the rule at issue is still moving through a lower court.

By Abbie VanSickle

There are perfectly legal explanations for why schools’ demographics might not change after the fall of affirmative action.

By Sonja B. Starr

The driver, Douglas Horn, sued the maker of a product said to be free of THC under a federal racketeering law, saying he had suffered a business injury.

By Adam Liptak

November’s second-most-important election is in Florida.

By David French

Readers discuss recent hurricanes and actions that citizens can take. Also: Jack Smith’s timing; the Supreme Court and the campaign; therapy as health care; a Trumpian character.

Lawmakers must assert their power to reject the justices’ interpretations of the Constitution and enact their own.

By Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan

Larry Hogan, the Republican former governor, and Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic Prince George’s County executive, sparred over whether to expand the Supreme Court and overhaul the legislative filibuster.

By Luke Broadwater

Say no to court packing — and yes to term limits.

By David French

The latest threat to our right to speak freely comes all the way from the 1700s.

By Jacob D. Charles and Matthew L. Schafer

Some justices said the court was powerless to grant relief to the inmate, Richard Glossip. Others seemed ready to order a new trial or at least an evidentiary hearing.

By Adam Liptak

Readers discuss Donald Trump’s age and cognitive patterns. Also: A traumatized Israel; the “ghost guns” case; Eric Adams; A.I. and nuclear power.

The Justice Department should not have allowed revelations about the Trump Jan. 6 case to be disclosed so close to Election Day.

By Jack Goldsmith

Plus, have we reached peak human life span?

By Tracy Mumford, Ruth Igielnik, Patricia Mazzei, Robert Jimison and Jessica Metzger

At issue was how the Biden administration had interpreted a federal statute to regulate kits that could be assembled into homemade guns, skirting background checks.

By Abbie VanSickle

Both sides told the Supreme Court that long-suppressed evidence about the state’s star witness undermined the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip.

By Adam Liptak

The administration said a state abortion law conflicted with a federal law requiring emergency care. The court similarly sidestepped a case from Idaho in June.

By Adam Liptak

The justices considered a routine case on unemployment benefits in characteristic style, peppering the lawyers with questions and dropping hints about their views.

By Adam Liptak

The number of untraceable homemade guns recovered at crime scenes has fallen since the enactment of rules restricting the sale of the weapons, according to law enforcement statistics.

By Glenn Thrush

If it loses its institutional credibility, it will be powerless when it matters most.

By Nancy Gertner and Stephen I. Vladeck

Will the court resume or refrain from injecting itself into the country’s culture wars?

By Linda Greenhouse

Aside from major disputes on issues like transgender rights and guns, the docket is fairly routine. That could change fast if the presidential race is contested.

By Adam Liptak

Three cases all stem from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, which often finds itself to the right of the Supreme Court.

By Abbie VanSickle and Adam Liptak

Republican-led states and industry groups argued that the Environmental Protection Agency had moved too fast and imposed onerous regulations.

By Abbie VanSickle and Adam Liptak

The justices will consider whether a 2005 law that gives gun makers broad immunity applies in the case, which accuses them of complicity in supplying cartels with weapons.

By Adam Liptak

When prosecutors admit they were wrong in a death penalty case, courts should listen.

By Kenneth Cuccinelli

El fiscal especial aportó nuevos detalles que buscan sustentar que Donald Trump intentó mantenerse en el poder, y expuso su argumento para que el caso sobreviva a la decisión de inmunidad presidencial de la Corte Suprema.

By Charlie Savage and Alan Feuer

The special counsel provided new details that help flesh out how Donald Trump sought to remain in power, while setting out his argument for the case to survive the Supreme Court’s immunity decision.

By Charlie Savage and Alan Feuer

How does the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling apply to former President Donald J. Trump’s election-interference case? Here’s how Judge Tanya S. Chutkan will decide.

By Charlie Savage, Alan Feuer and Vivian Li

Judge Tanya Chutkan made public portions of a filing by prosecutors setting out their argument for why the case should go forward despite the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity.

By Alan Feuer and Charlie Savage

By recounting stories of women who have suffered dire health consequences since Roe’s overturning, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota embraced a Democratic strategy as he argued for abortion rights.

By Jess Bidgood

Federal civil rights investigators will review the events surrounding the race massacre for a public report under the department’s Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act.

By Audra D. S. Burch

Why the latest court reform bill matters.

By Jamelle Bouie

The candidate had asked the justices to intervene after a state judge found that he had used an improper home address in election paperwork.

By Adam Liptak

Jack Smith is seeking to disclose quotations from secret grand jury testimony and interviews, but is proposing to shield witness identities.

By Alan Feuer and Charlie Savage

Prosecutors filed a sealed brief showing what they learned in the investigation. The former president’s lawyers say it amounts to a premature special counsel report that could hurt him before Election Day.

By Charlie Savage and Alan Feuer

Are we ever going to take civil rights laws at face value?

By David French

The folly of the Electoral College creates too many points where history could turn on narrow outcomes.

By Jesse Wegman

Las encuestas han demostrado que el expresidente está teniendo dificultades para obtener el apoyo entre las mujeres, para quienes el derecho al aborto sigue siendo un tema prioritario.

By Neil Vigdor and Simon J. Levien

Federal prosecutors can come ahead with a lengthy filing containing evidence backing their argument that the indictment of the former president can survive the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling.

By Alan Feuer

“You will be protected, and I will be your protector,” said former President Donald J. Trump. Polls have shown he is struggling to cultivate support among women, for whom abortion rights remain a top issue.

By Neil Vigdor and Simon J. Levien

In June, the court tried to explain its new history-based approach to the Second Amendment. But judges said the latest decision “offered little instruction or clarity.”

By Adam Liptak

The next fights over health care won’t be legislative brawls or executive actions — they will be a deluge of battles in the courts.

By Danielle Ofri

Readers discuss a story about the chief justice’s role. Also: Loving children who are not your own; college football madness.

Democrats had argued that Ms. Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate, was ineligible because the party had failed to submit a required statement.

By Adam Liptak

Testing procedure, and perhaps the judge’s patience, the former president’s team sought to short-circuit a process to consider how much of the indictment can survive the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling.

By Alan Feuer

It remained unclear whether the man, Panos Anastasiou, came close to carrying out his threats, and public records indicate that he is not affiliated with any political party.

By Eileen Sullivan

In the world of political fund-raising, there is hard money, soft money, dark money and Leonard Leo money.

By Thomas B. Edsall

As a young conservative, David Brock smeared Hill, who accused the Supreme Court justice of sexual harassment. Now, in a new book, Brock is denouncing Thomas and the court’s rightward tilt — and contending with his own complicated past.

By Jennifer Szalai

Behind the scenes, the chief justice molded three momentous Jan. 6 and election cases that helped determine the former president’s fate.

By Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak

Here is what we know about the effects of the Supreme Court’s decision curtailing race-based admissions at selective universities. And why many experts and administrators are baffled.

By Anemona Hartocollis and Stephanie Saul

The case argues the government violated young people’s constitutional rights by failing to curb the use of fossil fuels. A lower court had thrown it out.

By Karen Zraick

The Supreme Court justice has been drawn to American history and books about the “challenges and triumphs” of raising a neurodiverse child. She shares that and more in a memoir, “Lovely One.”

La princesa Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, conservadora, dijo que Alito y su esposa eran sus amigos y no respondió si había hecho otros regalos al juez. La pareja se quedó en el castillo durante un festival musical en julio de 2023.

By Abbie VanSickle and Philip Kaleta

Defying expectations, a Supreme Court decision curtailing race-based admissions still had a relatively small impact at some highly selective schools like Harvard, even as other schools saw big changes.

By Anemona Hartocollis

Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis said Justice Alito and his wife were guests at St. Emmeram Palace for a summer music festival. She called the couple her “friends” and the justice “a hero.”

By Abbie VanSickle and Philip Kaleta