The Supreme Court on Monday in Whitton v. Dixon sided with a death row inmate for the second time in less than a week, ...

Traveling across the country, justices defend the role of the court even as strained relations among its members emerge in writing and remarks. By Ann E. Marimow and Aishvarya Kavi Ann E. Marimow ...

Over the past year, US Solicitor General D. John Sauer has been pushing the boundaries of the law at the Supreme Court with a delivery that is quickfire, confrontational and imbued with MAGA attitude.

The Trump administration backed a lawsuit brought by the Havana Docks Corporation that would allow the U.S.-owned entity to get compensation for property confiscated by Fidel Castro’s regime. By Ann E ...

When Mississippi prisoner Terry Pitchford’s appeal was argued at the Supreme Court in March, I explained how Justice Brett Kavanaugh could be key to the outcome. Fast-forward to Thursday, when the ...

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Black death-row prisoner in Mississippi on Thursday who claimed that he had been denied a fair trial because prosecutors had struck all but one of the Black ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued two unanimous rulings that fundamentally reshape the legal guardrails for the shipping and employment industries. The two cases represent moments of unity on ...

U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer has fundamentally transformed the role of the nation's top lawyer before the Supreme Court, according to a longtime court correspondent, abandoning the traditional ...

Major cruise lines Royal Caribbean, Carnival, Norwegian, and MSC can be held financially liable for using the American-built port in Havana, Cuba, which was confiscated by the communist government in ...

The Supreme Court is generally not a winning place for death row prisoners these days. So even though the justices didn’t write a full opinion siding with Alabama’s Joseph Smith on Thursday, it was ...