A majority of the Supreme Court appeared ready Thursday to place some limits on the power of single federal district judges to freeze presidential actions nationwide, in oral arguments over the ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency bid by the Trump administration to resume deportations without due process under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) — an archaic law that allows the ...

Melissa covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday pressed an attorney for the federal government on how President ...

The late retired Justice David H. Souter’s time on the Supreme Court has become paradigmatic of profound change on the court, as his 19-year tenure straddled an era of increasing polarization in ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday regarding the Trump administration’s attack on birthright citizenship — the constitutional right to citizenship of any child born on U.S. soil.

In a case making it easier to challenge police unreasonable force in court, the Supreme Court Thursday unanimously permitted the mother of a Houston man killed in a 2016 traffic stop to continue ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Trump’s administration to begin enforcing a ban on transgender troops serving openly in the military, undermining two lower court decisions and ...

President Trump said it was “a bad and dangerous day for America” Friday after the Supreme Court temporarily halted his administration’s expedited deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang ...

The Supreme Court Thursday appeared inclined to limit federal judges from issuing nationwide injunctions against presidential orders but was divided on how to do so and seemed uncomfortable with ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday grappled with whether to scale back nationwide orders that have blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on birthright citizenship, in a case with implications for ...

WASHINGTON — Retired Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter, an appointee of former President George H.W. Bush who became a reliable liberal vote over the course of his nearly 20 years on ...

Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a Republican appointee who retired from the high court in 2009 after voting consistently with its liberal wing, has died, the Supreme Court announced on ...