Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter died Thursday at his home in New Hampshire at the age of 85, the Court announced Friday. "Justice Souter was appointed to the Court by President George H ...

Melissa covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday pressed an attorney for the federal government on how President ...

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to lift a lower court injunction that blocked President Donald Trump's decision to terminate the protected legal status of hundreds of thousands of migrants ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency bid by the Trump administration to resume deportations without due process under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) — an archaic law that allows the ...

President Trump said it was “a bad and dangerous day for America” Friday after the Supreme Court temporarily halted his administration’s expedited deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang ...

Eric Lee/The New York Times The Supreme Court wrestled on Thursday with the Trump administration’s complaints that federal judges have exceeded their authority in temporarily blocking some of ...

In a case making it easier to challenge police unreasonable force in court, the Supreme Court Thursday unanimously permitted the mother of a Houston man killed in a 2016 traffic stop to continue ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he does not expect negotiations with the United States over Tehran’s nuclear program to “reach a conclusion” as Washington toughens its co ...

The Supreme Court seemed intent Thursday on keeping a block on President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship while looking for a way to scale back nationwide court orders.