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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Supreme Court Case That Could Bankrupt Religious Schools and Hospitals
Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton pits financially strained organizations against their own workers, who fear their promised pensions may not be there when they retire.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Will the Supreme Court Limit Gerrymandering?
The High Court will hear two cases related to a crucial issue––how states draw their legislative districts.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The 'Of Mice and Men' Rule for Texas Executions
The Supreme Court will consider whether Texas’s outdated standard on intellectual disability and executions violates the constitutional prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Does Trump Even Know What He Believes on Abortion?
The president-elect’s answer on abortion is telling, if contradictory.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters On the Eve of an Abnormal Election, the High Court Strives for Normalcy
Defying the tenor of the 2016 election, during a case over the president’s power to appoint temporary heads of agencies, the Supreme Court tries to function as it should.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters Testing Federal Power Over Immigration
An upcoming birthright citizenship case at the Supreme Court could give some insight as to whether Donald Trump’s proposed ban on immigration could pass Constitutional muster.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Trump's Striking Lack of Interest in the Supreme Court
It’s the issue many conservatives care about most—but when Clinton blew an answer at the debate, the Republican nominee didn’t even seem to notice.
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Molly Riley / Reuters Do Counterterrorism Lawsuits Stand a Chance in Court?
A group of non-citizens detained after the 9/11 terrorist attacks claim officials violated their constitutional rights, but the result in the case isn’t likely to be in their favor.
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Jon Elswick / AP Why the Supreme Court Matters More to Republicans than Trump
Conservative justices might be the party’s final bulwark against a changing electoral landscape.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Should Racism in the Jury Room Lead to a New Trial?
The Supreme Court will hear the case of a Latino man convicted after racist sentiments were allegedly expressed during deliberations, but longstanding rules about juries would prevent him from getting a new day in court.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Lewis and Clarke Get Their Day in Court
As the Supreme Court prepares to reconvene next week, the justices agreed to hear eight new cases on Thursday.
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Jason Reed / Reuters The Legal Fiction That Could Kill Duane Buck
A man’s life hinges on the Supreme Court’s evaluation of racist testimony during his sentencing.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters What President Trump's Supreme Court Would Look Like
The Republican candidate successfully wooed Ted Cruz by releasing an expanded list of potential justices.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Trouble With Double Jeopardy
A new Supreme Court case takes on one of the most well-known and misunderstood concepts in American criminal law.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Schrodinger's Supreme Court
The high court now stands at a crossroads, waiting for a ninth justice to determine whether it will be a liberal court or a conservative one.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How Did Justice Scalia Shape American Policing?
Donald Trump wants a Supreme Court appointee like the formidable late judge. But Scalia had a controversial and sometimes conflicted opinion on law enforcement.
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Gerald Herbert / AP Does the First Amendment Protect Deliberate Lies?
Donald Trump says the press cannot lie. But the Supreme Court says otherwise: In fact, many falsehoods are protected speech.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Why Trusting Donald Trump on Judges Is Folly
Supreme Court appointments are not a persuasive reason for conservatives to back the billionaire.
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Steve Helber / AP Why the Courts Can’t Save LGBT Americans From Discrimination
Judges may want to shield gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people from harassment and disparate treatment, but recent decisions suggest the law isn’t there yet.
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Evan Vucci / AP Breyer Brings Back Courtesy—at a Cost
Justice Stephen Breyer’s attempt to return internal respect to the Supreme Court is noble, but he chose the wrong case to make his point.
