The Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit from Republican attorneys general in 19 states aimed at blocking climate change suits against the oil and gas industry from Democratic-led states
March 10, 2025
Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from Christian fire chief who wanted to make it easier to sue for discrimination
March 10, 2025
Supreme Court to review Colorado law barring conversion therapy for minors
March 10, 2025
A US district judge says that the Trump administration has to pay USAID the billions it owes in already completed work. The Supreme Court agrees − for now.
March 07, 2025
Veteran legal conservatives rush to Justice Barrett’s defense amid MAGA backlash
March 07, 2025
The majority of a five-member panel of Brazil's Supreme Court formed a majority on Friday to uphold a justice's previous ruling to suspend U.S. video-sharing platform Rumble in
March 07, 2025
They came to vent and to cry and to exhort
March 07, 2025
The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid contractors and grant recipients by 6 p.m.
March 06, 2025
A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s request to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid approved by Congress frozen. However, the court did not immediately say when the money must be released, allowing the White House to continue to dispute the issue in lower courts.
March 05, 2025
Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s early rulings on Trump’s budget cuts and firing power
March 05, 2025
A sharply divided Supreme Court has rejected a Trump administration push to rebuke a federal judge who imposed a quick deadline to release billions of dollars in foreign aid
March 05, 2025
The U.S.
March 05, 2025
The Supreme Court is wrestling with whether to restart plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico even as some justices worried about safety issues and the lack of progress toward a permanent solution
March 05, 2025
A divided U.S.
March 05, 2025
Supreme Court rejects Trump’s request to keep billions in foreign aid frozen
March 05, 2025
San Francisco argued that Clean Water Act permits should function like recipes that restrict specific ingredients in a dish, rather than telling cooks not to make the dish too salty.
March 05, 2025
Supreme Court wades into decades-old impasse over how to store nuclear waste
March 05, 2025
The U.S.
March 04, 2025
The Supreme Court seemed likely Tuesday to block a $10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against top firearm manufacturers in the U.S. alleging the companies have fueled cartel gun violence
March 04, 2025
The Supreme Court has made it harder for environmental regulators to limit water pollution, ruling for San Francisco in a case about the discharge of raw sewage that sometimes occurs during heavy rains
March 04, 2025
Supreme Court lets San Francisco discharge more raw sewage into the Pacific Ocean
March 04, 2025
The United Arab Emirates’ Federal Supreme Court has rejected appeals on behalf of dozens of dissidents convicted in a mass trial that faced widespread international criticism
March 04, 2025
The U.S.
March 03, 2025
The Supreme Court is turning back a challenge from conservative college students who say their freedom of speech is violated by a university program for reporting allegations of bias
March 03, 2025
The Supreme Court has left in place a Utah state court decision that overturned the death sentence for a man convicted of murdering a woman to stop her from testifying against him in a rape case
March 03, 2025
Supreme Court justices tread carefully as collision with Trump looms
March 03, 2025
CNN's Joan Biskupic reports on President Donald Trump's request that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas swear in several of his cabinet officials, although traditionally the Vice President has performed the role.
March 03, 2025
A U.S. judge on Saturday declared President Donald Trump's firing of the head of a federal watchdog agency illegal in an early test of the
March 02, 2025
Head of federal watchdog agency fired by Trump should remain on the job, judge rules
March 02, 2025
What’s next for former Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip after the Supreme Court ordered he receive a new trial
February 28, 2025
Foreign aid organizations asked the U.S.
February 28, 2025
Namibia's Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a challenge against last year's presidential election brought by opposition parties, clearing the way for the ruling
February 28, 2025
The Supreme Court will hear arguments about the Oklahoma school in April.
February 27, 2025
Chief Justice John Roberts pauses order for Trump admin to pay $2 billion in foreign aid by midnight
February 27, 2025
U.S.
February 27, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S.
February 27, 2025
U.S.
February 26, 2025
The Supreme Court seems likely to side with an Ohio woman who claims she suffered sex discrimination in her employment because she is straight
February 26, 2025
Supreme Court signals it will make it easier for Americans to file ‘reverse discrimination’ suits
February 26, 2025
Supreme Court orders new trial for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip
February 25, 2025
Argentina’s President Javier Milei has temporarily appointed two Supreme Court judges by decree, bypassing Congress during its summer recess to push through a controversial candidate in a move criticized as an overreach of executive power
February 26, 2025
A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three “last meals” has won a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court tossed his murder conviction
February 25, 2025
The wife of an Oklahoma man whose murder conviction and death penalty were thrown out by the Supreme Court says the decision is “an answered prayer.”
February 25, 2025
The Supreme Court has found that people who score early court wins in civil rights cases won’t necessarily be able to recover their legal fees
February 25, 2025
The U.S.
February 25, 2025
The Supreme Court has declined to hear a pair of cases from abortion opponents who say laws limiting anti-abortion demonstrations near clinics violate their First Amendment rights
February 24, 2025
The U.S.
February 24, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday Robert F.
February 24, 2025
Supreme Court declines chance to overturn precedent limiting protests outside abortion clinics
February 24, 2025
The Supreme Court on Friday dashed President Donald Trump’s plan to immediately fire the head of an independent agency that investigates whistleblower claims, allowing Hampton Dellinger to remain in the job through at least the middle of next week. CNN Chief Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic reports.
February 21, 2025
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ordered the suspension of video-sharing platform Rumble in the South American nation for allegedly refusing to comply with court orders
February 21, 2025
Brazil's Supreme Court on Friday ordered the suspension of U.S. video-sharing platform
February 21, 2025
Supreme Court rules that government watchdog fired by Trump may temporarily remain on the job
February 21, 2025
The Supreme Court has temporarily kept on the job the head of the federal agency that protects government whistleblowers
February 21, 2025
The U.S.
February 21, 2025
A unanimous Supreme Court has dealt a severe blow to Holocaust survivors and their families in a long-running lawsuit seeking compensation from Hungary for property confiscated during World War II
February 21, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court says people left waiting for months on their unemployment claims during the coronavirus pandemic in Alabama must be able to sue the state over the delay
February 21, 2025
US Supreme Court blocks Holocaust victims from suing Hungary in American courts
February 21, 2025
Brazilian prosecutors presented a streamlined version of charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro this week over a plot to
February 20, 2025
A month into President Donald Trump’s second term, lawyers for the Republican administration seem intent on provoking a legal fight to overturn a 90-year-old Supreme Court decision known as Humphrey’s Executor
February 20, 2025
An election for a single state Supreme Court seat becomes the ‘blockbuster’ political fight of 2025
February 20, 2025
Marlean Ames received numerous promotions and good evaluations over the years working in Ohio's youth corrections system, so when she was denied a promotion and demoted in
February 20, 2025
Appeals court leaves block on Trump’s birthright citizenship order in place, setting up Supreme Court showdown
February 20, 2025
What to know about Trump’s executive order and ‘unprecedented’ power grab within the government
February 19, 2025
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been charged with orchestrating a plot to stay in office despite losing the 2022 election
February 19, 2025
After Brazil's top prosecutor charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with plotting a 2022 coup, the ex-
February 19, 2025
Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro was charged on Tuesday with leading a plot
February 19, 2025
Sweden's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other activists cannot proceed with a class action lawsuit that had sought to force the state to
February 19, 2025
The Supreme Court gave Trump immunity. He’s using it as a blank check.
February 19, 2025
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has asked the Supreme Court to nullify an impeachment complaint against her, making her first legal move to fight the case that could lead to
February 19, 2025
The Trump administration is giving America’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money, raising the stakes in the president’s fight against “wokeness.”
February 18, 2025
The Supreme Court should reject an emergency appeal from the Trump administration asking for quick action to allow the firing of the head of the federal agency that protects whistleblowers
February 18, 2025
What to know about Trump’s appeal to the Supreme Court
February 17, 2025
The Supreme Court has told India's top podcaster to stop doing any shows until further notice, days after he was charged with obscenity, legal news website LiveLaw said on Tuesday.
February 18, 2025
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has asked the Supreme Court to void her impeachment and block a Senate trial that could remove her from office
February 18, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration has asked the U.S.
February 17, 2025
The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to permit the firing of the head of the federal agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers
February 16, 2025
Trump administration blasts ‘unprecedented assault’ on its power in first Supreme Court appeal
February 16, 2025
Donald Trump's broad assertions of power appear to be advancing an aggressive version of a legal doctrine called the "unitary executive" theory that envisions
February 14, 2025
83% of Americans say the president must honor Supreme Court rulings – even the divisive ones
February 13, 2025
Is there anyone in government Trump can’t fire? Why Humphrey’s Executor may be in peril at the Supreme Court
February 12, 2025
The U.S.
February 12, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied the final appeal of James Dennis Ford, who is scheduled to be executed in Florida for the 1997 murders of a married couple during a fishing trip
February 12, 2025A British-Lebanese securities trader wanted in the United States for alleged insider dealing on Wednesday won his fight against extradition at the United Kingdom's Supreme Court.
February 12, 2025
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she has faith court orders will be honored
February 12, 2025
India's top court said on Wednesday that the practice of giving handouts was creating a "class of parasites" that was unwilling to work during elections because of "freebies"
February 12, 2025
President Donald Trump has been critical of federal judges who've moved to block some of his most contentious actions, such as his effort to freeze federal spending
February 12, 2025
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said presidents have historically obeyed judicial rulings with a few exceptions while advocating for the court to move cautiously to maintain a system of checks and balances
February 12, 2025
Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death
February 12, 2025State Supreme Court to hear case against Harvard linked to stolen body parts case
February 11, 2025
A former UBS bond strategist who persuaded the U.S.
February 10, 2025
How the ‘10th justice’ can help Trump’s agenda at the Supreme Court
February 10, 2025President Donald Trump will need the Supreme Court, with three justices he appointed, to enable the most aggressive of the many actions he has taken in just the first few weeks of his second White House term
February 10, 2025
President Donald Trump's sweeping assertions of executive power during his first weeks back in office appear headed toward U.S.
February 07, 2025
Casino mogul Steve Wynn has asked the U.S.
February 07, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration told the U.S.
February 07, 2025
Trump administration withdraws from gender-affirming care dispute at the Supreme Court
February 07, 2025
The Trump administration has told the Supreme Court that the federal government no longer backs transgender minors and their families in Tennessee who are challenging a state ban on gender-affirming care
February 07, 2025
The U.S.
February 06, 2025
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has renewed her attack on a ruling by the court's conservative majority that afforded broad immunity to President Donald Trump
February 06, 2025
At the Supreme Court, at the White House and at his house, Clarence Thomas is the go-to justice to swear in Trump’s Cabinet
February 06, 2025
Russia's Supreme Court refused to consider supervisory appeal of prominent nationalist and former militia commander Igor Girkin against his four-year jail term, TASS agency reported early
February 03, 2025
North Carolina’s highest court has upheld a law that gave adult victims of child sexual abuse two additional years to seek civil damages
January 31, 2025A lawyer for a South Carolina death row inmate says he won't ask the governor for clemency
January 30, 2025
Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she's found an outlet for the frustration that can result from being in the minority on the nation’s highest court: boxing
January 30, 2025
Trial determines how to divide $4B Maui wildfire settlement among plaintiffs
January 30, 2025Trump’s spending freeze sets up a future possible Supreme Court showdown over presidential power
January 28, 2025
The Supreme Court has left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber theft
January 27, 2025
The U.S.
January 27, 2025
Start your week smart: Hegseth confirmed, hostages released, South Korean president, FEMA’s future, religious charter schools
January 26, 2025
Republicans put Pennsylvania and Wisconsin back in the win column in the 2024 presidential race
January 26, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump has said since his first administration that he wants to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right for everyone born in the United States
January 25, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S.
January 24, 2025
The Supreme Court has agreed to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma
January 24, 2025
North Dakota’s highest court has ruled that the state’s overturned abortion ban will not be enforced during an appeal of a judge’s ruling that struck down the law in September
January 24, 2025
The U.S.
January 24, 2025
Supreme Court to weigh constitutionality of nation’s first religious charter school
January 24, 2025
While the Court’s politics have veered right over the past decade, the justices’ prose has shifted left, becoming more colloquial and accessible.
January 24, 2025
The U.S.
January 23, 2025
The Supreme Court has revived a requirement that owners of millions of small businesses register with an arm of the Treasury Department under an anti-money laundering law
January 23, 2025
How the modern Supreme Court might view the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship
January 23, 2025
Supreme Court likely to side with family of man killed by police after his rental car was pulled over for toll violations
January 22, 2025
Oklahoma's only woman on death row says trial unfairly targeted her personal life
January 22, 2025Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state's highest court said the animals have no legal right to demand their release because
January 22, 2025
The U.S.
January 22, 2025
The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death during a traffic stop in Houston over unpaid tolls
January 22, 2025
President Donald Trump unleashed an unprecedented barrage of executive orders after taking office this week
January 22, 2025
The U.S.
January 21, 2025
The U.S.
January 21, 2025
The Supreme Court has turned back an election law case out of Montana that relied on a controversial legal theory with the potential to change the way elections are run across the country
January 21, 2025
The U.S.
January 21, 2025
The Supreme Court has ordered lower courts to review the case of the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row
January 21, 2025President Donald Trump faces an arduous task delivering on his Inauguration Day promise of a "Golden Age of America" in the face of a closely
January 20, 2025
When Donald Trump arrived in Washington in 2017 on the eve of his first inauguration, he was a stranger to most in town
January 19, 2025
TikTok arrived in the U.S. almost 6 1/2 years ago
January 18, 2025
TikTok stopped working for 170 million Americans late on Saturday after the U.S.
January 06, 2025
CNN anchor and chief investigative correspondent Pamela Brown details what President-elect Donald Trump told her in a brief phone call after the Supreme Court’s decision to allow TikTok to be banned in the US.
January 17, 2025
The Supreme Court ruled that the controversial ban on TikTok may take effect on January 19. Clare Duffy explains how President-elect Donald Trump could be an unlikely savior.
January 17, 2025
TikTok says it will have to “go dark” this weekend unless the outgoing Biden administration assures the company it won’t enforce a shutdown of the popular app after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the federal law banning the app unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company
January 17, 2025
The U.S. is inching closer and closer to a potential TikTok ban — with the nation’s highest court upholding a law that’s set to officially cut the cord and halt new downloads off the app starting Sunday
January 17, 2025
Two senior Iranian Supreme Court judges involved in handling espionage and terrorism cases were shot dead in the capital Tehran on Saturday, Iran's judiciary said.
January 18, 2025
Since Donald Trump last entered the White House, the Supreme Court created a more powerful president
January 18, 2025
During his four years as president, Democrat Joe Biden experienced a sustained series of defeats at the U.S.
January 18, 2025
U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle hailed a ruling by the Supreme Court on Friday that upheld a law that gives popular Chinese-
January 17, 2025
TikTok warned late Friday it will go dark in the United States on Sunday unless
January 17, 2025
The U.S.
January 17, 2025
TikTok says it will go dark on Sunday unless Biden intervenes ‘immediately’
January 17, 2025
DACA dealt a legal setback by federal appeals court
January 17, 2025
The White House said on Friday that Tiktok should remain available to Americans but the timing of the Supreme Court ruling on a law banning the app means it must fall to the
January 17, 2025
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from parents in suburban Washington who want to pull their children from elementary school classes that use books featuring LGBTQ characters
January 17, 2025
Supreme Court to weigh if elementary schools may require LGBTQ+ reading
January 17, 2025
Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s TikTok decision and what it may mean for the First Amendment
January 17, 2025
TikTok has cemented itself as the quintessential entertainment app, offering everything from funny skits and makeup tutorials to social commentary and news
January 10, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision could come Friday in the case about whether TikTok must shut down in a few days under a federal law that seeks to force its sale by the Chinese company that owns the social media platform
January 16, 2025
TikTok plans to shut U.S. operations of its social media app used by 170 million Americans on Sunday, when a federal ban is set to
January 15, 2025
Takeaways from the Supreme Court arguments on Texas’ age-verification law for porn sites
January 15, 2025
The Supreme Court seems open to a Texas law aimed at blocking kids from seeing online pornography
January 15, 2025
U.S.
January 15, 2025
Attorneys for the state of Florida argued before a federal appeals court that a lower-court judge was wrong to block a law last year that bans gender-affirming care for minors and restricts similar care for adults, though a pending U.S. Supreme Court case creates uncertainty
January 15, 2025TikTok plans to keep paying U.S. employees even if the Supreme Court does not overturn a law that would force the sale of the short-video app in the U.S
January 15, 2025
A billionaire oil tycoon tried again on Wednesday to overturn British sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in the first case of its kind to reach the UK's Supreme
January 15, 2025
Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has acquitted former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia in the last corruption case against her, paving the way for her to run in elections that an interim government says will be held either in December or in the first half of 2026
January 15, 2025
The Supreme Court is turning back a push by Utah to wrest control of vast areas of public land from the federal government
January 13, 2025
TikTok creator eyes possible ban now just a week away
January 13, 2025
The Supreme Court is declining to hear an appeal from oil and gas companies trying to block lawsuits seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of dollars in damage linked to climate change
January 13, 2025
The U.S.
January 13, 2025
Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here
Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Chinese EV giant BYD's fourth-quarter profit leaps 73%
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