U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted the request earlier this month to extend the deadline for filing the ...

When the justices rule without offering a rationale, we can't know if they are following the law or just exercising power.

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I cannot help but think of all the judges in Nazi Germany who facilitated sending people to their death in concentration ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied a bid by an Ecuadorian national to stave off his extradition to that country to face sexual ...

President Donald Trump has achieved significant victories in the Supreme Court during the first six months of his second term ...

In a blistering dissent to a decision that allows President Trump to dismantle the Department of Education, she called out ...

Inflation rose 2.7% in June (compared to June last year), which isn’t a crisis, but it isn’t great either. This is the highest reading since ...

"That decision is indefensible," the justice wrote. "It hands the executive the power to repeal statutes by firing all those necessary to carry them out." ...

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 ...

In yet another unsigned ruling, the conservative majority treated a department closure like it’s just some minor layoffs.

"[E]ither way the threat to our Constitution’s separation of powers is grave," she wrote in a blistering dissent.