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Attorneys for Mississippi's only abortion clinic filed papers asking the state Supreme Court to block a new law that bans most abortions and to let the clinic... More
July 7, 2022
A Mississippi judge rejected a request by the state’s only abortion clinic to temporarily block a law that would ban most abortions. More
July 5, 2022
The 51-year-old Jackson is the court’s 116th justice and she took the place Thursday of the justice she once worked for. Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement took effect... More
June 30, 2022
A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till found the unserved warrant charging a white woman, Carolyn Bryant... More
June 29, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson will be sworn as the Supreme Court's 116th justice just as the man she is replacing, Justice Stephen Breyer, retires. More
June 29, 2022
A look at some of the Supreme Court's major abortion rulings over the last 50 years. More
June 24, 2022
The Supreme Court, in a ruling Friday, ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place for nearly 50 years. More
June 24, 2022
The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v.... More
June 24, 2022
Transgender people born in North Carolina may now correct the sex designation on their birth certificate without undergoing surgery after a consent judgment issued by... More
June 23, 2022
Nicholas John Roske, who was arrested near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home in Maryland, pleaded not guilty to trying to kill Kavanaugh. More
June 22, 2022
The Supreme Court said Wednesday that an armed man who made threats against Justice Brett Kavanaugh was arrested near the justice's house in Maryland. More
June 8, 2022
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the nation's strictest abortion ban, making the state the first in the nation to effectively end... More
May 25, 2022
U.S. Army Col. Gail Curley, Marshal of the U.S. Supreme Court, will oversee an investigation into the leak of a draft opinion and apparent votes... More
May 24, 2022
Former President Donald Trump has paid the $110,000 in fines he racked up after being held in contempt of court for being slow to respond... More
May 20, 2022
Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a conservative political activist, was more involved than previously known in efforts to overturn... More
May 20, 2022
Criminal defendants in Oregon who have gone without legal representation for long periods of time amid a critical shortage of public defense attorneys filed a... More
May 16, 2022
Louisiana's House of Representatives, venturing farther against abortion than lawmakers in any other state, is debating a bill to make women who end their pregnancies... More
May 12, 2022
The meeting Thursday in the justices' private, wood-paneled conference room could be a tense affair in a setting noted for its decorum. More
May 12, 2022
Vandals struck an anti-abortion group office, where a fire broke out and a Molotov cocktail was found, authorities said Sunday. More
May 9, 2022
The marshal of the Supreme Court has now undertaken the investigation to try to identify the source of the leak. More
May 5, 2022
