Critics call the expedited rulings, which have become routine in the second Trump administration, the “shadow docket.” The ...

Twenty years ago, as Supreme Court justices were deciding cases that tested college affirmative action, a ban on same-sex relations and a “three-strikes” law that put convicts in prison for life, ...

"I don't think our constitutional order is functioning properly at the moment," said a former clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens.

The carefully worded letters have gone out from law firms to the U.S. Supreme Court, inviting justices' law clerks to contact the firms when appropriate. And some have begun responding in the past few ...

Former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis asked the court, which currently holds a conservative supermajority, to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges.