Adam Liptak
The New York Times
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2023 Supreme Court Decisions: Affirmative Action, Elections and More
How the court’s 6-to-3 conservative majority is ruling this term after its lurch to the right a year ago in blockbuster decisions on abortion, guns, religion and climate change. → Read More
Chief Justice Says Supreme Court Is Working to Address Ethics Questions
In remarks at an awards ceremony, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. also addressed heckling at law schools and security for members of the court. → Read More
Supreme Court Hints That It May Duck Two Big Cases
Recent orders suggest that the justices are thinking of dismissing cases involving the “independent state legislature” theory and Title 42, an immigration measure imposed during the pandemic. → Read More
Supreme Court Cancels Arguments in Title 42 Immigration Case
The justices, who had been set to hear arguments on March 1, acted after the Biden administration filed a brief saying that the measure would soon be moot. → Read More
Supreme Court Says It Hasn’t Identified Person Who Leaked Draft Abortion Opinion
The leak of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, published by Politico in May, was an extraordinary breach of the court’s usual secrecy. → Read More
Justice Kagan Temporarily Blocks a Jan. 6 Committee Subpoena
The justice’s “administrative stay” of a subpoena for an Arizona Republican’s phone records was not an indication of how the Supreme Court would rule. → Read More
Alito Says Leak of Ruling Overturning Roe Put Justices’ Lives at Risk
The leak of a draft opinion, he said, “gave people a rational reason to think” the eventual decision could be prevented “by killing one of us.” → Read More
Justice Jackson, a Former Law Clerk, Returns to a Transformed Supreme Court
In the 22 years since she worked for Justice Stephen G. Breyer, whom she replaced last month, the court has become polarized and predictably conservative. → Read More
Supreme Court Narrows Ruling for Tribes in Oklahoma
The decision followed a landmark 2020 ruling that said much of eastern Oklahoma falls within Indian reservation lands, limiting the authority of state prosecutors. → Read More
Supreme Court Revives Republican-Drawn Voting Map in Louisiana
A federal judge had ordered lawmakers to redraw the state’s six congressional districts to include two in which Black voters were in the majority. → Read More
The Major Supreme Court Decisions in 2022
How the court is ruling with a 6-to-3 conservative supermajority, including three justices appointed by President Donald J. Trump. → Read More
Supreme Court Live Updates: Leaked Draft Would Overturn Roe v. Wade
A majority of the court privately voted to strike down the landmark abortion rights decision, according to the document, obtained by Politico. The release of the 98-page draft document is unprecedented in the court’s modern history. → Read More
Confirmed but on the sidelines: Judge Jackson is now a justice in waiting.
Her status is the consequence of Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s early and conditional announcement of his retirement. → Read More
Supreme Court Revives Trump-Era Environmental Regulation
The regulation, which was welcomed by industry groups, limited the role of states in enforcing the Clean Water Act. → Read More
Supreme Court to Weigh California Law on Humane Treatment of Pigs
Trade groups challenged the law, which requires adequate space for breeding pigs to turn around, saying it unfairly burdens out-of-state farmers. → Read More
Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law on Adopting Native American Children
The Indian Child Welfare Act calls for special solicitude for the sovereignty and heritage of tribes in adoption decisions. → Read More
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: A Groundbreaking Pick Unlikely to Reshape the Supreme Court
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s replacement of Justice Stephen G. Breyer substitutes a liberal for a liberal and would not shift the basic dynamic of the court. → Read More
Roberts, Sotomayor and Gorsuch Address Reports of Conflicts Over Masks
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who has diabetes, has been participating in Supreme Court arguments remotely. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, her seatmate, is the only member of the court who does not wear a mask. → Read More
The Persistent Gender Gap at the Supreme Court Lectern
More than 40 years after Ruth Bader Ginsburg last appeared as a lawyer at the Supreme Court, relatively few women argue cases there. → Read More
Supreme Court Allows Vaccine Mandate for New York Health Care Workers
Doctors and nurses challenged a state coronavirus vaccine requirement that had medical but not religious exemptions, saying it violated their right to free exercise of their faiths. → Read More