U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an Alabama inmate whose lawyers argued he had ineffective counsel at his trial.

In Boston, two teens — born just eight months apart — received very different sentences despite being convicted of the same crime.

U.S. Supreme Court rulings and state laws in recent years have limited or banned sentences of life without the possibility of parole for people who commit crimes as juveniles because of the potential for change

The number of Supreme Court Justices changed 6 times before Congress settled on the 9 we’re now accustomed to. Here’s a history of “court packing” in the US

A possible expansion of gun rights is on the Supreme Court’s agenda, days after mass shootings in Colorado and Georgia

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear the government’s appeal of a lower court ruling that overturned the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

A history of racism and sexism in our country has translated to a lack of diversity in our federal judges. But it’s also due to neglected talent and political will, says the co-author of an opinion piece in The National Law Journal about the lack of Black women federal judges. Professor Catherine Smith of the University of Denver Sturm College...

With a now solid 6-3 conservative majority, the court will decide the future of President Barack Obama’s signature legislation, a law Republicans have long opposed but one that 20 million Americans now depend on for their health insurance.

Jeremy Dys, special counsel with the conservative First Liberty Institute, explains what Republicans expect from the U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges under a second Trump term — if he is re-elected.

Wisconsin cannot count mail ballots that arrive well after the polls close, under an order issued Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court, a defeat for Democrats in a battleground state, NBC News reports.

The U.S Senate will vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday evening. This isn’t Nostradamus-like prophecy. With a 53-47 Republican majority in the Senate it’s a mathematical certainty. So… what comes next?

The Senate is expected to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday after a highly partisan, rushed process. George Washington University Law Professor Paul Schiff Berman argues that her confirmation under these circumstances threatens the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and stability in the U.S.

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is speeding toward confirmation, with a majority of the Senate supporting her and a final vote expected Monday. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved her nomination on Thursday as Democrats boycotted the vote. If confirmed on Monday, as is expected, Barrett could be sworn in as a justice almost immediately, just a week before the Nov....

Sen. Cory Booker speaks about the confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett returned to Capitol Hill for a third day of confirmation hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett batted back Democrats’ skeptical questions on abortion, gun rights and election disputes in lively Senate confirmation testimony Tuesday, insisting she would bring no personal agenda to the court but would decide cases as they come.

Again and again, Amy Coney Barrett insisted to senators on Tuesday that she has no “agenda” on issues like the Affordable Care Act, the future of abortion rights or same-sex marriage, and that she would be nobody’s “pawn” if confirmed to the Supreme Court, NBC News reports. “Do you think we should take the president at his word when he says his...

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, has written roughly 100 opinions in more than three years on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Senate Republicans are vowing a quick confirmation for President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s affiliation with the Christian community People of Praise is drawing scrutiny because of what former members and observers describe as its ultraconservative views on women. Her defenders say scrutinizing her beliefs and relationship to the mostly Catholic organization is akin to anti-religious bigotry. But in interviews with a dozen former members of the...