SUPREME COURT

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that’s framed as being about free speech but is actually a Trojan horse for upending civil rights protections. So, naturally, the Supreme Court’s chief troll, Justice Samuel Alito, decided to joke around about the Ku Klux Klan.

The fate of Biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan rests with the Supreme Court. That could be bad news for borrowers, legal experts say.

Justice Gorsuch slammed Colorado for forcing a Christian baker to undergo a “reeducation program” after he refused to to create a cake celebrating a same-sex marriage.

A legal challenge against Colorado's Anti-Discrimination Act from a graphic designer who does not want to create websites for gay weddings goes before the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court hears clash between LGBTQ rights and a Christian business owner's opposition to same-sex weddings.

Without an effective system in place, problems like leaks and conflicts will not be adequately addressed, and public confidence in the Court will continue to plummet.

The Respect for Marriage Act, lauded by Schumer as a "momentous step" for LGBTQ rights, is getting criticism from some of the left for not going far enough.

The following is a transcript of an interview with former Attorney General Eric Holder that aired Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022, on "Face the Nation."

The Supreme Court on Monday considers if web designer Lorie Smith’s refusal to create same-sex union sites violates Colorado's public-accommodation law.

The Supreme Court is about to confront a new elections case that could dramatically alter voting in 2024 and beyond.

The Supreme Court is being warned about the potentially dire consequences of a case next week involving a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for same-sex couples.

Hillary Clinton spoke Friday about the overturn of Roe v. Wade and said it is "shocking to think that in any way we're related to poor Afghanistan and Sudan."

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in 2023 about whether President Joe Biden's student debt forgiveness can proceed. For now, the program remains paused.

When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the future of affirmative action, I knew I had to be there.

303 Creative v. Elenis isn’t about LGBTQ rights, as many people believe it to be, but about what constitutes speech.

New England Patriots running back Damien Harris expressed support for Planned Parenthood on cleats he was going to wear Thursday, but he was ruled out.

The court said in a brief order​ that it will hear arguments in February, but will keep the program on hold for now.

The Supreme Court declines to revive President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, but agrees to rule early next year on its legality.

The Biden administration wants to forgive billions of dollars in student loan debt. The Supreme Court could have the final word on the plan's legality.

The Supreme Court on Thursday announced it will expedite review of the legality of President Biden’s plan to cancel federal student loan debt for millions of borrowers, and hold oral arguments in February.

Speaking on the Senate floor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took shots at incoming House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, calling him an "election denier."

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After years of Democrat efforts to obtain them, House Ways and Means Committee Democrats have obtained former President Donald Trump's tax returns.

The US Congress has moved a step closer to approving proposed legislation codifying the federal government’s embrace of same-sex marriage. The right to such unions is the law of the land throughout the US today but only because of a 2015 Supreme Court decision. And civil rights advocates fear that ruling is in danger of being reversed by today’s more conservative panel of justices. Should that happen, the proposed new law in Congress would maintain some of the rights of same-sex couples but woul

The Supreme Court declined last week to block the release of the returns.

Kenji Yoshino explains the history of substantive due process and its possible future after the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

The Unwritten Rights Issue shows the impact of the Supreme Court’s substantive due process decisions — and their possible future since Roe was overturned.

Mexico’s Supreme Court has upheld a constitutional change that allows the military to continue in law enforcement duties until 2028

The bill, which would ensure that same-sex and interracial marriages are enshrined in federal law, was approved 61-36 on Tuesday.

Texas sued the Biden administration after it said agents would prioritize for deportation only recent border crossers and those deemed a threat to public safety.

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The Supreme Court sounded divided over a clash between President Biden and the state of Texas involving immigration enforcement.

The bipartisan measure would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as being between one man and one woman.

Vivek Ramaswamy suspects that Harvard's and Yale's decision to stop participating in U.S. News & World report rankings was driven by affirmative action cases.

The Senate has passed landmark bipartisan legislation to protect same-sex marriages.

Poland’s Supreme Court has reinstated a judge who was suspended for two years.

Even if it’s not explicitly about him at all.

The Senate’s Respect for Marriage Act has progressives arguing that efforts to safeguard same-sex unions remain unfinished after concessions were made to Republican demands for bolstered religious liberty protections. The bill as it currently stands would officially repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and require state recognition of legal same-sex and interracial marriages but would…

The Supreme Court is wrestling with a politically tinged dispute over a Biden administration policy that would prioritize deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.

The Senate is set to vote Tuesday on legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages, putting Congress one step closer to ensuring that such unions are enshrined in federal law.

The Supreme Court says in a letter to Congress that there is “nothing to suggest” that Justice Samuel Alito violated ethics standards following a report that a 2014 decision he wrote was leaked in advance of its announcement.

Co-host Ana Navarro demanded Chief Justice Roberts set guidelines for when justices need to recuse themselves from Supreme Court Cases during "The View."

Liberty does not have to mean what the Supreme Court thinks it means.

(THE CONVERSATION) When the Biden administration announced in August 2022 that it was canceling up to $20,000 in student loan debt per borrower, it said the idea was to provide families with “breathing room as they prepare to start repaying loans after the economic crisis brought on by the pandemic.” But two federal courts recently blocked President Joe Biden’s student loan

Mexico’s Supreme Court has struck down part of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s ‘jail, no bail’ program

The CDC, in a report published Wednesday, found that about 51% of abortions in 2020 were performed with the pill at or before the ninth week of pregnancy.

A 1924 law allows certain congressional committees to gain access to private tax information, including those of the former president.

Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon has vowed to find other paths to a referendum and Scottish independence, insisting Scotland's voice will not be silenced.

The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that Scotland does not have the power to hold a new referendum on independence without the consent of the British government

The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that Scotland does not have the power to hold a new referendum on independence without the consent of the British government.

"The Late Show" host said the Supreme Court decision about Trump's taxes could spell trouble within the family.

The president has extended the student loan repayment pause into 2023. Biden said he wants to give lawsuits against debt cancellation time to play out, and the Supreme Court time to weigh in.

Alone among recent presidents, Trump refused to release his tax returns during his successful 2016 campaign or his four years in the White House.

The extension, up to June 30, 2023, will give the courts time to decide the fate of student loan cancellation.

The Supreme Court denied former President Trump's plea to shield his tax returns from being turned over to a House committee.

The order clears the way for Democrats to obtain Trump's tax records weeks before Republicans take control of the House in January.

The House Ways and Means Committee for three years had sought to obtain income tax returns of former President Donald Trump.

Lawmakers say they need Donald Trump’s tax returns from his time in office to help evaluate the effectiveness of annual presidential audits -- a premise Trump rejects.

The Supreme Court says it will hear a dispute over a dog toy that got whiskey maker Jack Daniel’s barking mad.

New Zealand lawmakers will take a vote on whether to lower the nation’s voting age from 18 to 16.

The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman is among those urging action in response to a report that a former anti-abortion leader knew in advance the outcome of a 2014 Supreme Court case involving health care coverage of contraception.

The company that makes Jack Daniel’s is howling mad over a squeaking dog toy that parodies the whiskey’s signature bottle.

An Afghan Supreme Court official says 19 people were lashed in the country's northeast after being convicted of adultery, theft and running away from home.

Democrats celebrated winning North Carolina's lone toss-up race for the U.S. House this month as Wiley Nickel won the 13th District seat.

The Biden administration plans to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate the president’s student debt cancellation plan, according to a legal filing.

The nation’s Catholic bishops continue to signal their hardline opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.

Legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages has crossed a major Senate hurdle, putting Congress on track to take the historic step of ensuring that such unions are enshrined in federal law.

A federal appeals court St. Louis has thrown up another roadblock for President Joe Biden’s plan to provide millions of borrowers with up to $20,000 apiece in federal student-loan forgiveness.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to get phone records belonging to the leader of the Arizona Republican Party.

The Supreme Court has again declined to hear a lawsuit involving a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns.

State Supreme Court elections around the country have become increasingly partisan and expensive.

Voters in reliably red Kentucky rejected a ballot measure aimed at denying any state constitutional protections for abortion while voters in battleground Michigan enshrined abortion rights in their state’s constitution.

Three races among Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation have taken shape as some of the closer contests in the country this year.

New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued her first Supreme Court opinion.

The Supreme Court will hear a water dispute involving the U.S. government and the Navajo Nation.

Differences over abortion have pitted one large batch of U.S. states against another — one group imposing sweeping bans, the other intent on making abortions accessible.

The Supreme Court looks more like America than it ever has.

Lawyers who aided former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election regarded an appeal to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a “key” to their success.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for Sen. Lindsey Graham’s testimony in a Georgia investigation of possible illegal interference in the 2020 election by then-President Donald Trump and his allies in the state.

Chief Justice John Roberts has put a temporary hold on the handover of former President Donald Trump’s tax returns to a congressional committee.

Former President Donald Trump is going to the Supreme Court, again, this time to try to stop his tax returns from being handed to a congressional committee.

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education.

A Supreme Court that is the most diverse in history will hear two cases Monday challenging the use of affirmative action in higher education.

The stakes in elections for a pair of North Carolina Supreme Court seats this fall are high.

When the Supreme Court takes up the issue of affirmative action again Monday, it'll be for the second time in six years.

The University of North Carolina was once a bastion of segregation.

Supreme Court justices tend to wipe the slate clean at the start of a new term and their summer break can help bruised feelings from tough cases.

Voters in West Virginia will get the final say on a ballot question that would amend the state constitution to give the Republican-dominated legislature control over virtually every aspect of public schooling.

Justice Elena Kagan says “time will tell” whether the Supreme Court can get back to “finding common ground” after a term in which the court’s six conservatives and three liberals split over major issues including abortion and gun rights.

Police at the U.S. Capitol have arrested a Georgia man who they say had several guns in his van and claimed to be in Washington to deliver documents to the Supreme Court.

Andy Warhol and Prince held center stage in a copyright case before the Supreme Court on Wednesday that veered from Cheerios and “Mona Lisa” analogies to Justice Clarence Thomas’ enthusiasm for the “Purple Rain” showman.

The Biden administration is urging the Supreme Court to steer clear of a legal fight over classified documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.

Judges at the U.K.’s highest court have begun hearing evidence on whether Scotland’s Parliament can legislate to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Dylann Roof, who challenged his death sentence and conviction in the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation.

Ketanji Brown Jackson said before the Supreme Court's term began that she was “ready to work.”.

Jill Biden is using the story of a teenage friend's abortion to illustrate what she says is at stake in November's elections.

The Supreme Court’s nine members have posed for their first formal group photo following the addition of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears open to making it harder to create majority Black electoral districts.

Planned Parenthood officials have announced plans for a mobile abortion clinic, a 37-foot RV that will stay in Illinois but travel close to the borders of adjoining states that have banned abortions since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this year.

The Supreme Court is siding with a Russian oil company in a dispute with Ukraine worth millions, a win for the company as Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine.