Adam Liptak

The Trump administration told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that developments in the first case arising from the president’s blitz of executive actions to reach the justices would require prompt action. The court ruled last week that President Trump could […]

The Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday over an employment discrimination suit filed by a straight woman who twice lost positions to gay workers. The case comes two years after the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions programs in higher

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a new trial to Richard Glossip, a death row inmate in Oklahoma whose challenge to his conviction led to an extraordinary concession from the state’s attorney general. State lawmakers from both political parties, along

When the Supreme Court ruled last month in favor of a woman sent to death row in Oklahoma based on lurid sexual evidence, it used a judicial tool that was once commonplace but has all but disappeared in recent years.

The Supreme Court, in its first decision on President Trump’s use of executive power in his second term, ruled on Friday that he cannot, for now, remove a government lawyer who leads the watchdog agency that protects whistle-blowers. But the