The justices struck down a New York gun control law last year, announcing a new test to evaluate the constitutionality of such measures.
Author: Adam Liptak
Supreme Court Takes Up Case on Trump Hotel Records
The justices will decide whether individual House Democrats have standing to sue for documents concerning possible conflicts of interest.
Supreme Court to Consider South Carolina Voting Map Ruled a Racial Gerrymander
A unanimous three-judge panel found that a congressional voting district anchored in Charleston, S.C., violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause.
16 Crucial Words That Went Missing From a Landmark Civil Rights Law
The phrase, seemingly deleted in error, undermines the basis for qualified immunity, the legal shield that protects police officers from suits for misconduct.
Supreme Court Stays Execution of Death Row Inmate Richard Glossip
The court acted after Oklahoma’s attorney general joined Mr. Glossip in urging it to halt the execution, which had been scheduled for May 18.
Release of Justice Stevens’s Private Papers Opens Window Into Supreme Court
The justice’s files on thousands of cases, including landmark decisions on abortion and the 2000 election, were made public.
Supreme Court Wary of Windfall in Seizure of Condo for Unpaid Taxes
The justices considered the constitutionality of letting states keep all the proceeds of the sale of confiscated property even when they far exceed the taxpayer’s debt.
What Scalia’s Defense of a Free Jet Trip Says About Thomas’s Travels
In a combative 2004 memo rejecting calls for his recusal, Justice Antonin Scalia discussed whether a trip on a litigant’s plane was a gift that had to be disclosed.
In Abortion Pill Ruling, the Supreme Court Trades Ambition for Prudence
The court’s order seemed to vindicate a commitment in last year’s decision in Dobbs: to leave further questions about abortion to the political process.
Biden Administration Asks Supreme Court to Restore Broad Availability of Abortion Pill
In an emergency application, lawyers for the government asked the justices to stay all of a Texas judge’s ruling suspending a commonly used abortion medication.