This would eliminate the most common path people and civil rights groups use to sue under a key provision of the 60-year-old Voting Rights Act.

A court is supposed to explain things,” the Obama appointee said during her appearance at a circuit conference. “That’s what courts do.”

The Trump administration came once again to the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon and asked the justices to pause an order by a federal court in Massachusetts that would require […]

Even as an uproar over files relating to Jeffrey Epstein engulfs President Donald Trump and Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court is due to wade into the controversy and decide whether to hear a bid by an associate of the late financier and convicted sex offender to overturn her criminal conviction.

Trump has racked up a nearly unbroken string of Supreme Court wins on emergency appeals. Justice Kagan said the court should explain those decisions.

The Marshall Project reports on Supreme Court rulings that weakened universal injunctions, impacting immigration laws while some criminal justice cases favored litigants.

The justices paused a lower court order pending a decision on whether the Supreme Court will take up the case, a major challenge to the Voting Rights Act.

The U.S. Supreme Court let Republican President Donald Trump on Wednesday remove three Democratic members of the government's top consumer product safety watchdog, boosting his power over federal agencies set up by Congress to be independent from presidential control.

The solicitor also pointed to an April ruling from the Supreme Court allowing the Department of Education to terminate some of its own grants for similar reasons. In that case, the justices said the Trump administration would likely be able to prove that the lower court lacked jurisdiction to mandate the payment of a federal award.

WASHINGTON − An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency. The court's three liberal justices opposed the order, the latest win for President Donald Trump at the high court.

Justice Elena Kagan addressed the rise in threats against judges, and urged them to "not be inhibited" as they go about their work.