Calls for the Supreme Court to give fossil fuel companies immunity from liability for climate-related damage misreads the Constitution, precedent and the role of courts.
May 21, 2026
The conservative-majority U.S.
May 20, 2026
The legal counsel of Philippine Senator Ronald dela Rosa said on Wednesday they will ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to reject a request for a temporary
May 20, 2026
President Donald Trump was incensed on February 20 when the U.S.
May 20, 2026
The Supreme Court has acted in a Voting Rights Act case brought by Native American tribes, saying a closely watched ruling needs to be reconsidered after the high court weakened the Civil Rights-era law
May 18, 2026
Supreme Court puts off fight over who can sue to enforce what’s left of the Voting Rights Act
May 18, 2026
Supreme Court to weigh appeal from former Georgia Tech basketball coach suing over sex discrimination
May 18, 2026
Supreme Court rejects Big Pharma appeals challenging negotiated drug prices in Medicare
May 18, 2026
The Supreme Court has rejected appeals from pharmaceutical companies that object to negotiating Medicare drug prices with the federal government
May 18, 2026
The court’s decision sends the mifepristone case back to a lower court, which has signaled that it will continue its challenge to the legality of mailing the abortion pill.
May 15, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court has for now refused to block a U.S.
May 15, 2026
The Supreme Court has preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues
May 15, 2026
Supreme Court allows telehealth and mail access to mifepristone for now
May 15, 2026
The U.S.
May 15, 2026
The Supreme Court says man can sue a major logistics company after he lost part of his leg in a semi tractor-trailer crash
May 14, 2026
He fought Trump’s tariffs through the Supreme Court all the way to a refund
May 14, 2026
President Donald Trump won't have to pay an $83 million defamation award to a longtime advice columnist until the U.S. Supreme Court gets a chance to review the case or reject an appeal
May 13, 2026
Virginia Democrats ask US Supreme Court to let them use new congressional map
May 12, 2026
The U.S.
May 12, 2026
Supreme Court allows Alabama to eliminate congressional district held by a Black Democrat
May 12, 2026
Supreme Court briefly extends telehealth and mail access for mifepristone as deliberations continue
May 12, 2026
The Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect
May 12, 2026
Brazil's Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes prohibited the implementation of a sharp
May 10, 2026
Nike was sued on Friday by consumers who accused the athletic apparel and footwear maker of not refunding tariff-related costs it passed on in the form of higher
May 09, 2026
Republicans have gained an advantage in a national congressional redistricting battle among states ahead of the midterm elections
May 05, 2026
A federal court has ruled against the new global tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed after a stinging loss at the Supreme Court
May 08, 2026
Chief Justice John Roberts says Supreme Court justices are not “political actors.”
May 07, 2026
Chief Justice Roberts defends Supreme Court against charges of partisan rulings
May 07, 2026
President Donald Trump's lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, is asking a federal appeals court in New York to temporarily block a longtime columnist from collecting an $83 million defamation award
May 07, 2026
States are rushing to redistrict following a Supreme Court voting rights decision. Here's why Ohio won't be.
May 06, 2026
The U.S.
May 06, 2026
Alito and Jackson’s fiery debate over the Voting Rights Act exposes Supreme Court tensions
May 06, 2026
The Supreme Court may force Trump to take a position on mifepristone
May 05, 2026
The Supreme Court limited the ability of people to sue government contractors in state courts.
May 05, 2026
The U.S.
May 05, 2026
Elie Honig joins The Lead.
May 05, 2026
The Supreme Court has restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortion is provided across the nation
May 04, 2026
The U.S.
May 04, 2026
Clarence Thomas this week will reach a major milestone on the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the second-longest-serving justice in American history.
May 03, 2026
The Supreme Court keeps overturning precedent. It swears that it’s not
May 03, 2026
Fight over online access to abortion pill reaches Supreme Court in emergency appeal
May 03, 2026
The Trump administration has been found in violation of court rulings in an extraordinary number of lawsuits on a broad set of issues
May 02, 2026
The Supreme Court’s ruling that a Black-majority voting district in Louisiana is unconstitutional adds to a long and dismal history of government attempts to limit the power of minority voters.
April 30, 2026
A case involving the potential dangers of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weed killer sold as Roundup, could affect broader consumer-protection efforts.
April 30, 2026
The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect thousands of Black and Hispanic representatives at all levels of government
April 30, 2026
John Roberts’ effort to gut the Voting Rights Act is complete
April 30, 2026
Brazil's Senate on Wednesday rejected the nomination of Solicitor General Jorge Messias for an open seat on the Supreme Court, making President Luiz
April 30, 2026
Brazil’s Senate dealt a political blow to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday by rejecting his appointee to the Supreme Court, the first in more than 130 years
April 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority has handed Republicans their biggest victory yet in the battle to control the House of Representatives and statehouses across the country
April 30, 2026
The U.S.
April 29, 2026
Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s historic Voting Rights Act opinion and what’s next for the midterms
April 30, 2026
The Supreme Court is siding with a faith-based pregnancy center that raised First Amendment concerns about an investigation into whether it misled people to discourage abortions
April 29, 2026
Federal appeals court won’t rehear Trump’s appeal of E. Jean Carroll’s $83 million jury award
April 29, 2026
Supreme Court lets faith-based pregnancy centers fight subpoena on First Amendment grounds
April 29, 2026
Will Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric matter at the Supreme Court?
April 29, 2026
The Supreme Court seems likely to grant tech giant Cisco’s bid to shut down a lawsuit claiming that the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China
April 28, 2026
The U.S.
April 28, 2026
General Motors is expecting a $500 million tariff refund after the Supreme Court struck down some of President Donald Trump’s most sweeping levies
April 28, 2026
These Haitian immigrants contribute nearly $6 billion to the economy. Their fate is in the Supreme Court’s hands
April 28, 2026
"Make America Healthy Again" activists rallied at the U.S.
April 28, 2026
The Supreme Court seems divided over whether to block thousands of lawsuits alleging the maker of the weedkiller Roundup failed to warn people it could cause cancer
April 28, 2026
The U.S.
April 27, 2026
The Supreme Court seems inclined to rule that police could use geofence warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users to find people near crime scenes
April 28, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court formally reinstated on Monday a redrawn Texas electoral map that was designed to add more Republicans to the U.S.
April 27, 2026
Supreme Court grapples with whether police may seek sweeping cellphone location data in investigations
April 27, 2026
A Supreme Court case over pesticides is bringing out the ‘MAHA moms’ — and threats of consequences for the midterms
April 27, 2026
A majority of Americans believe all babies born in the country should automatically be granted citizenship, according to a Reuters/Ipsos
April 26, 2026
Most Americans are worried about pesticides and oppose shielding companies from lawsuits over hazardous products, according to a
April 24, 2026
What is the Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’ and why is it important?
April 24, 2026
The Supreme Court has sided with Michigan in ruling that the state’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an aging pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court
April 22, 2026
The Supreme Court is clearing the way for a veteran wounded by a suicide bomb in Afghanistan to sue the government contractor for whom the attacker was working when he built the explosive
April 22, 2026
In testimony Tuesday at the Senate Banking Committee, Federal Reserve Chair nominee Kevin Warsh never said if he agrees with President Donald Trump's view that the Fed's policy
April 22, 2026
The Supreme Court seems wary of limiting the power of federal regulators in a case over multimillion-dollar penalties levied against telecommunications giants Verizon and AT&T
April 22, 2026
The U.S.
April 21, 2026
The U.S.
April 20, 2026
The Supreme Court will hear from Catholic preschools that say it’s unconstitutional to exclude them from a state-funded program because they won’t admit kids from LGBTQ+ families
April 20, 2026
When government officials hold prayer services, quote scripture and engage in religious proselytizing at the workplace, is it religious freedom – or an old-fashioned First Amendment violation?
April 15, 2026
U.S.
April 01, 2026
The U.S.
April 23, 2025
President Donald Trump made a historic visit to the U.S.
April 01, 2026
The House has passed legislation that would extend temporary protections for Haitian immigrants living in the United States
April 16, 2026
President Donald Trump took the short trip from the White House to the U.S.
April 02, 2026
Sniping by justices underscores tension over Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’
April 17, 2026
While many Americans are following the U.S.
April 02, 2026
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has stepped up her criticism of the conservative-majority U.S.
April 16, 2026
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered an attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration
April 16, 2026
Trump recalls how Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death affected the Supreme Court as he discusses Samuel Alito’s future
April 15, 2026
The centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s economic policy — sweeping taxes on global imports — is under legal assault again
April 10, 2026
In 1976, a small Christian college refused to comply with Title IX. The ensuing legal back-and-forth still matters today as the Trump administration places pressure on universities.
April 09, 2026
Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon has won a Supreme Court order that’s expected to lead to the dismissal of his criminal conviction for refusing to testify to Congress
April 06, 2026
The court decided Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy violated the free speech of a talk therapist.
April 03, 2026
President Donald Trump has attended oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court, marking a first for a sitting president
April 02, 2026
Trump’s top litigator faces uphill battle with birthright citizenship
April 01, 2026
Takeaways from the Supreme Court decision on Colorado law banning ‘conversion therapy’ for trans and gay minors
April 01, 2026
The Supreme Court is once again hearing arguments on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily
March 31, 2026
The Trump administration this week stepped up its ambitious effort to replace about $1.6 trillion in lost tariff revenue that was eliminated by the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a range of the president’s import taxes
March 14, 2026
The Trump administration is scrambling to replace the revenue the federal government lost when the Supreme Court struck down his biggest and boldest tariffs last month
March 13, 2026
Trump asks Supreme Court to let protections for Haitians expire
March 12, 2026
Kavanaugh and Jackson appearance gets testy when emergency docket comes up
March 10, 2026
Supreme Court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh sparred over the many emergency orders the court has issued allowing President Donald Trump to move ahead with key parts of his agenda
March 10, 2026
The White House aide who revealed that Richard Nixon had secretly recorded his conversations as president has died
March 10, 2026
Plan emerges for $166 billion in tariff refunds. But don’t hold your breath
March 07, 2026
In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that companies that paid tariffs struck down last month by Supreme Court are due refunds
March 05, 2026
A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to charges that he brought dozens of homemade explosive devices to a Washington, D.C., church that was preparing for an annual Mass celebrating the start of the Supreme Court’s term
March 06, 2026
Some two dozen states are challenging President Donald Trump’s new global tariffs in court
March 06, 2026
The Supreme Court is clearing the way for California schools to tell parents if their children identify as transgender without getting the student’s approval, granting an emergency appeal from a conservative legal group
March 03, 2026
The Supreme Court has sided with Republicans in ruling that the boundaries of the only GOP-held congressional district in New York City do not not need to be redrawn for the 2026 elections, despite a court ruling that the district is unfair to Black and Hispanic residents
March 03, 2026
Supreme Court blocks California policies intended to protect transgender students
March 03, 2026
Delivery company FedEx said in a statement on Thursday that it will return any tariff refund it might get to shippers and customers who paid them
February 27, 2026
Everyone has something to say at the Supreme Court. Why the tariffs ruling had more than 160 pages
February 27, 2026
Trump asks Supreme Court to remove immigration protections for thousands of Syrians
February 27, 2026
The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to allow the government to end legal protections for migrants from Syria for now
February 26, 2026
Supreme Court justices sit in silence at State of the Union as Trump slams their tariffs decision
February 25, 2026
President Trump has used his State of the Union address to sell a booming America, even as voters worry about the economy
February 24, 2026
FedEx is suing the U.S. government, requesting a full refund on what it paid for tariffs set by President Donald Trump last year after the Supreme Court ruled that the tariffs are illegal
February 24, 2026
A gobsmacking amount of money is spent on federal elections in the US. The credit or blame for that reaches back to a landmark, 50-year-old Supreme Court decision.
February 24, 2026
The issue in front of the US Supreme Court is seemingly mundane, about federal or state jurisdiction. But it is actually much bigger, encompassing some key questions of the 21st century.
February 24, 2026
19 years ago, the Supreme Court told EPA it could regulate climate pollution. Trump is trying to undo that
February 24, 2026
You paid for tariffs — but you won’t get a slice of tariff refunds
February 24, 2026
President Donald Trump is heading to Capitol Hill this week to deliver the State of the Union address
February 23, 2026
President Donald Trump is threatening countries around the world to abide by any tariff deals they agreed to, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down many of his far-reaching taxes on imports
February 23, 2026
U.S. stocks slumped after President Donald Trump ramped up his newest tariffs, while investors continued to punish companies that could be losers in the artificial-intelligence revolution
February 23, 2026
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block lawsuits seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of dollars in damage linked to climate change
February 23, 2026
Supreme Court to decide if Colorado city can sue oil companies for climate change
February 23, 2026
Asian stocks slip and oil prices jump as Iran and US launch fresh attacks
Gulf companies are set to reveal the unequal toll of Iran war
Prosecutors plan to play redacted statements from roommate of defendant in Charlie Kirk's killing
Flooding in southern China has killed 39 people
New Zealand to consider joining Australia and Fiji in defence alliance, PM says
Trump's plan for a triumphal arch in the nation's capital is getting another review
Paramount will not close its Warner Bros deal before July 22 amid Oregon probe
Smithsonian head says White House report unfairly characterized US history museum