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The Supreme Court Puts the Pro-Life Movement to the Test
Rarely has a case had less legal meaning and greater moral weight.
By David French
Rarely has a case had less legal meaning and greater moral weight.
By David French
The court swept aside a precedent that endangers countless regulations — and transfers power from the executive branch to Congress and the courts.
By Kate Shaw
A second Biden term would be unusually dangerous for the country in a very significant way.
By Ross Douthat
Four cases backed by conservative activists in recent years have combined to diminish the power of the Environmental Protection Agency.
By Coral Davenport
In finding that prosecutors misused an obstruction law to charge rioters, the justices highlighted the lack of an established legal blueprint for addressing an attack on the foundations of democracy.
By Alan Feuer
In states that have banned abortion, hospitals have struggled to treat pregnant women facing health risks. A Supreme Court decision this week did not help.
By Kate Zernike
The Bible has a deep history in American classrooms, but the state’s provocative superintendent wants to broadly expand its influence.
By Sarah Mervosh and Ruth Graham
Two rulings this week by the Republican-appointed majority add to its steady pursuit of enfeebling the ability of the administrative state to impose rules on powerful business interests.
By Charlie Savage
Stephen Bannon will have to begin serving four months in prison on Monday, after the court turned aside his request to remain free while he appeals his conviction for contempt of Congress.
By Alan Feuer
The combination of President Biden’s debate performance and adverse Supreme Court rulings left Democrats reeling and in despair with elections not far off.
By Carl Hulse
Successive successes reinvigorated Donald Trump’s campaign a month after he became the first major party nominee convicted of a felony.
By Shane Goldmacher
Everyone in our system, including judges and members of Congress, will be nudged to do their proper constitutional work.
By Yuval Levin
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has made it easier to sue agencies and get their rules struck down.
By Charlie Savage
The decision overturning a longstanding precedent is likely to spawn challenges to dozens of tax regulations.
By Alan Rappeport
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The decision overturning a precedent known as Chevron deference was celebrated by those who would target medication abortion and rights for transgender people.
By Elizabeth Dias
Experts in legal ethics have said that the activities of the justices’ wives raised serious questions about their impartiality.
By Adam Liptak
Challenges could range from whether tainted spinach can be traced back to a farm to a decision on whether drugs are safe and effective enough to be sold in the United States.
By Christina Jewett
The decision is expected to prompt a rush of litigation challenging regulations across the entire federal government, from food safety to the environment.
By Coral Davenport, Christina Jewett, Alan Rappeport, Margot Sanger-Katz, Noam Scheiber and Noah Weiland
The ruling that the Justice Department misused a 2002 law in charging a pro-Trump rioter who entered the Capitol could have an impact on hundreds of other cases, including one against Donald Trump.
By Adam Liptak
A foundational 1984 decision had required courts to defer to agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous statutes, underpinning regulations on health care, safety and the environment.
By Adam Liptak
The case is likely to have broad ramifications for how cities across the country respond to homelessness.
By Abbie VanSickle
The court’s strategy of avoidance and delay cannot last and may have been shaped by a desire to avoid controversy in an election year.
By Adam Liptak
El caso, uno de varios que se centran en cómo se aplica la Primera Enmienda a las plataformas tecnológicas, fue desestimado porque los demandantes carecían de pruebas para legitimar sus reclamos.
By Adam Liptak
The Trumpist right is presenting aggressive legal theories that fail again and again.
By David French
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A reporter observed a day of messages to the National Domestic Violence Hotline. She does not know the callers’ names, but she’ll never forget their stories.
By Emily Cochrane
It’s a busy time for a reporter on the Supreme Court beat, with momentous decisions coming down one after another.
By John Otis
Half of the water flowing through regional river basins starts in so-called ephemeral streams. Last year, the Supreme Court curtailed federal protections for these waterways.
By Brad Plumer
We scrutinized the presidential candidates’ recent claims on abortion, health care, crime and climate change ahead of the debate.
By Linda Qiu
Plaintiffs and the company vowed to renegotiate but the talks will be challenging after the court struck down a provision the Sacklers had insisted on in exchange for $6 billion.
By Jan Hoffman
A majority of the justices voted to dismiss the case, reinstating a lower-court ruling that paused the state’s near-total abortion ban. The ruling mirrored a version inadvertently posted a day earlier.
By Abbie VanSickle
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