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Race Question in Supreme Court Adoption Case Unnerves Tribes

Both the Navajo and the Brackeens appealed. A state appellate court ordered a new trial.Meanwhile, the federal case made its tortuous way through two...

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Block the House From Obtaining His Tax Returns

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald J. Trump asked the Supreme Court on Monday to intervene in the long-running dispute over whether a House committee...

Supreme Court Leak Inquiry Exposes Gray Area of Press Protections

“The norms of confidentiality at the court, they’re not gentle or subtle,” said Allison Orr Larsen, a professor at William and Mary Law School...

How Roe Shaped the World of Work for Women

When Barbara Schwartz looks back at her younger days working as a Broadway stagehand, she remembers the electricity of it: the harried dancers slipping...

The Story Behind That Photo of Ketanji Brown Jackson and Her Daughter

When Sarahbeth Maney was tapped to photograph the confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court,...

OSHA Withdraws Its Workplace Vaccine Rule

The Biden administration is withdrawing its requirement that large employers mandate that workers be vaccinated against the coronavirus or regularly tested, the Labor Department...

Supreme Court Blocks Biden’s Vaccine Mandate for Large Employers

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a vaccine-or-testing mandate for large employers, dealing a blow to a...

Sarah Weddington, Who Successfully Argued Roe v. Wade, Dies at 76

Sarah Weddington, the young Texas lawyer whose successful arguments before the Supreme Court in the landmark Roe v. Wade case led to the legalization...

Supreme Court Allows Vaccine Mandate for New York Health Care Workers

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block New York’s requirement that health care workers be vaccinated against the coronavirus even when...

With Roe at Risk, Justices Explore a New Way to Question Precedents

In 2008, in Justice Antonin Scalia’s majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, which recognized an individual right to own guns under the...

What is Stare Decisis?

As the Supreme Court wrestles with the Mississippi abortion law, the Latin phrase “stare decisis” is likely to keep coming up. The phrase, which...

Fetal Viability, Long an Abortion Dividing Line, Faces a Supreme Court Test

WASHINGTON — In 1973, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court drew a line. The Constitution, it said, did not allow states to ban...

Biden’s Supreme Court Commission Shows Interest in Term Limits

WASHINGTON — The most complete look yet at the ongoing work of President Biden’s Supreme Court commission showed its continuing interest in imposing terms...

Swift Ruling in Jan. 6 Case Tests Trump’s Tactic of Delay

WASHINGTON — On the surface, a judge’s ruling on Tuesday night that Congress can obtain Trump White House files related to the Jan. 6...

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