Topic: Brett Kavanaugh

Condemned inmates in Texas and Alabama who want a spiritual adviser with them when they are put to death are challenging prison policies that bar clergy from the execution chamber.

The balance of power, which is central to a functional democracy, just got nudged a little bit further out of alignment after Supreme Court rulings in two cases.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a large swath of eastern Oklahoma is still considered a tribal reservation, meaning state prosecutors don't have authority to pursue cases against American Indians there.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld a decades-old ruling banning robocalls from cell phones and expanded restrictions to prohibit robocallers from attempting to collect government-backed debts.

The Supreme Court Thursday tossed out lower court rulings blocking two stringent Indiana abortion laws days after its decision striking down Louisiana's abortion law.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down a law shielding the director of the Consumer Finance Protection Board from being fired at will by the president.

The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by four inmates, clearing the way for the first federal executions in about 17 years.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against a bid by the Trump administration to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects children of undocumented migrants in the United States.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers from being fired based on their orientation.

The Supreme Court has ruled against a church's challenge to California's executive order limiting church crowds amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases Wednesday that could have a major impact on "faithless electors," rogue voters in the Electoral College who cast the formal ballots for the president of the United States.

Justices appeared divided Tuesday during arguments in three cases that will determine whether President Donald Trump can block congressional investigators' attempts to access his tax returns and other fiscal records.

The case centers around a 2003 law that provided billions to fight HIV/AIDS. As a requirement to receive funds, the law said groups had to "have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution and sex trafficking."

The case was brought by the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association against a New York City law that, briefly, barred gun owners from taking firearms outside the city or to a second home elsewhere in the state.

President Donald Trump on Friday nominated Justin Walker, a Kentucky judge who was a controversial pick for the federal bench when he was appointed on a party-line vote five months ago, for a seat in Washington, D.C.