The Supreme Court of the United States, known as SCOTUS, is the highest court in the country and issues the last word on important cases.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's retirement gives President Joe Biden a chance to make his first nomination to the high court. It's also a chance for Biden to fulfill a campaign promise to nominate the first Black woman to be a justice. More
January 27, 2022
Justice Stephen Breyer is making it official, telling President Joe Biden in a letter that he will step down from the court later this year. More
January 27, 2022
The court said it will take up lawsuits claiming that Harvard University, a private institution, and the University of North Carolina, a state school, discriminate against Asian American applicants. More
January 24, 2022
The Supreme Court on Thursday buttressed a criminal defendant's right to cross-examine prosecution witnesses, ruling in favor of a New York man who was convicted of killing a 2-year-old boy on Easter Sunday in 2006. More
January 20, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Oklahoma appellate court decision that the high court's landmark McGirt ruling on criminal jurisdiction in Indian Country does not apply retroactively to state convictions that are finalized. More
January 11, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a woman who left home in Alabama to join the Islamic State terror group, but then decided she wanted to return to the United States. The justices declined without comment on Monday to consider the appeal of Hoda Muthana, who was born in New Jersey in October 1994 to a diplomat from Yemen and grew up in Alabama near Birmingham. More
January 11, 2022
The high court announced Wednesday that the justices plan to return to their majestic, marble courtroom for arguments beginning in October, nearly 19 months after the in-person sessions were halted because of the coronavirus pandemic. More
September 8, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight years after carving the heart out of a landmark voting rights law, the Supreme Court is looking at putting new limits on efforts to combat racial discrimination in voting. The justices are taking up a case about Arizona restrictions on ballot collection and another policy that penalizes voters who cast ballots in the wrong […] More
March 1, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a significant defeat for former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to step in to halt the turnover of his tax records to a New York state prosecutor. The court’s action is the apparent culmination of a lengthy legal battle that had already reached the high court once […] More
February 22, 2021
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing a case Wednesday that could make it easier for the president to fire the head of the agency that oversees government-controlled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The case could also mean undoing an agreement between the companies and the government […] More
December 9, 2020
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A member of the Seminole Nation who was convicted in state court of sexually assaulting a child will be retried in federal court after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in July that Oklahoma prosecutors lack the authority to pursue criminal cases against Native Americans in parts of the state. The case involved […] More
November 6, 2020
By JESSICA GRESKO The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to side with a Catholic social services agency in a dispute with Philadelphia over the agency’s refusal to work with same-sex couples as foster parents. The case is a big test of religious rights on a more conservative court. […] More
November 5, 2020
The U.S. Justice Department asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's case after his death sentence was thrown out. More
October 7, 2020
By RANDALL CHASE Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for Gov. John Carney asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to overturn a federal appeals court decision invalidating a provision in Delaware’s constitution that mandates a political balance among judges on the state’s most powerful courts. The provision at issue limits judges affiliated with […] More
October 5, 2020
MONDAY, OCT. 5: I. Carney v. Adams: Attorney James Adams is tackling a century-old provision in the Delaware constitution that he claims violates the First Amendment. In 2017, Adams changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Independent and wanted to become a judge. But in Delaware, the state constitution limits judges to Democrats and Republicans. […] More
October 5, 2020
Some of the issues either already on the Supreme Court’s docket when it begins its new session or likely to be before the justices soon: HEALTH CARE A week after the presidential election, the court will hear arguments in a bid by the Trump administration and Republican-led states to overturn the Obama-era health care law. […] More
October 5, 2020
By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was buried Tuesday in a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, laid to rest beside her husband and near some of her former colleagues on the court. Washington last week honored the 87-year-old Ginsburg, who died Sept. 18, with two days […] More
September 30, 2020
By MARK SHERMAN and MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With crowds of admirers swelling outside, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was remembered Wednesday at the court by grieving family, colleagues and friends as a prophet for justice who persevered against long odds to become an American icon. The court’s eight justices, masked […] More
September 23, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has undergone a nonsurgical medical procedure in New York City and expects to be released from a hospital there by the end of the week, the Supreme Court said Wednesday night. The court said in a statement that the 87-year-old Ginsburg underwent a minimally invasive procedure to “revise […] More
July 29, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a 1991 law that bars robocalls to cellphones. The case, argued by telephone in May because of the coronavirus pandemic, only arose after Congress in 2015 created an exception in the law that allowed the automated calls for collection of government debt. RELATED STORY: Robocalls argued […] More
July 6, 2020
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court won’t put an Idaho transgender inmate’s gender confirmation surgery on hold while a lawsuit over the procedure moves forward. The order on Thursday means Adree Edmo can continue getting pre-surgical treatments and potentially even gender confirmation surgery this year while Idaho officials […] More
May 22, 2020
By Court TV Staff Do laws punishing state electors for failing to vote along with the popular vote violate the First Amendment? That’s one of the questions the Supreme Court of the United States will hear arguments for on May 13. In 2016, Colorado State Electors Polly Baca, Robert Nemanich and Michael Baca were required […] More
May 12, 2020
By Court TV Staff On May 11, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear a case about boundaries in the law and of the land. In 1997, Jimcy McGirt was convicted or raping his wife’s four-year-old granddaughter and sentenced to life in prison. The crime took place in McGirt’s home in Broken Arrow, […] More
May 11, 2020
By Court TV Staff Should President Trump’s accountant hand over his financial records to state prosecutors for a criminal investigation? That’s one of the questions the Supreme Court of the United States will take up, testing the limits of presidential immunity. On Tuesday, May 12, SCOTUS will hear two cases regarding President Trump. First up […] More
May 11, 2020
By Court TV Staff The Supreme Court of the United States will be the deciding factor in a case involving a church’s alleged discrimination against a former teacher. Agnes Morrissey-Berru taught fifth and sixth-grade at California catholic private school for sixteen years until 2015. When her contract wasn’t renewed by Our Lady of Guadalupe, […] More
May 11, 2020
By Court TV Staff The Little Sisters of the Poor is a religious order that offers housing and compassion to the elderly in need. And like many religious nonprofits their size, the Little Sisters offer health benefits to employees through a self-funded plan from a third-party insurer. But they refuse to offer contraceptive coverage through […] More
May 6, 2020
By Court TV Staff UPDATED 5/6/20 ORIGINAL STORY 5/5/20 Those insufferable robocalls will be argued before the Supreme Court of the United States in this month’s live teleconferences. Robocalls are the number one complaint the Federal Communications Commission receives each year, according to Commissioner Ajit Pai. And the calls aren’t just an annoyance, many are […] More
May 6, 2020
By Court TV Staff U.S.-based humanitarian groups operate through a global network of affiliates that share their name and logo to bring HIV prevention programs to families, sex workers and other vulnerable communities in foreign countries. For their work, these non-governmental organizations rely on federal funding through legislation known as the Leadership Act. Enacted under President George W. Bush in 2003, the Leadership […] More
May 4, 2020
By Court TV Staff For the first time in history, the U.S. Supreme Court is allowing live streaming of their court arguments beginning Monday, May 4. Ten cases will be heard in front of SCOTUS over the following weeks, the first case being the United States Patent & Trademark Office v. Booking.com. Popular travel […] More
May 1, 2020
For the first time in its history, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments by telephone conference in a limited number of postponed cases in response to public health guidance to COVID-19. All nine justices and counsel will participate remotely starting Monday, May 4. More
April 29, 2020
