Court starts new term hearing Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil’s attempt to stop lawsuits at state level The US supreme court begins its new nine-month term hearing arguments Monday in a high-stakes case in which big oil companies are attempting to strike a fatal blow against lawsuits that seek to hol
Alito, 76, delivers comment in rare interview with CBS News scheduled to air on Monday Samuel Alito , the conservative US supreme court justice, has said “I think I have to” contemplate retiring every year at his age. Alito, 76, delivered that comment in a rare interview with CBS News scheduled
Court will review practice of indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants living in the US The US supreme court agreed on Thursday to take up a case challenging the Trump administration’s practice of indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants living in the US and awaiting deportation pr
Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling The Trump administration may deport immigrants to a “third country”, or a country other than their homeland, without providing them an opportunity to dispute due to humanitarian concerns, the sup
Trans inmates sued the administration over the policy and, so far, two lower courts have blocked implementation The Trump administration asked the US supreme court , on Monday, to allow it to deny gender-affirming care to transgender inmates in federal prisons, while litigation over the matter conti
Decision from conservative justice comes before court hears case on whether fossil-fuel firms deceived US public Supreme court justice Samuel Alito recused himself on Monday from a major climate-change case after facing calls to step aside due to stock holdings in oil companies. A letter posted in t
The justice called out her colleagues in a speech she made at the UDC school of law, hours after Trump filed his latest request US supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson acknowledged serious concerns about her colleagues’ handling of emergency requests, the method Donald Trump often uses to s
Trump and officials claimed it combats voting by noncitizens but critics said it could disenfranchise eligible voters The US supreme court has lifted restrictions on a controversial federal database of voters as Donald Trump seeks to impose tougher restrictions on voting ahead of November’s midter
US attorney general Todd Blanche says justice department will ask high court for help after lower court rejected policy The Trump administration will ask the US supreme court to allow it to deport immigrants to countries other than their own, the latest effort to seek approval for a controversial po
Surrogate who rejected abortion request had asked justices to halt court order recognizing LA couple as legal parents The supreme court has refused to get involved with a custody dispute between an Alaska surrogate and a California couple whose child was born with a rare and serious heart defect. On
The court’s decision was based entirely on the timing of proposed new mail-in ballot rules. The larger question could re-emerge Last week’s supreme court decision upholding the district court’s restraining order on USPS’s mail-in ballot restrictions is being hailed as a victory for electoral