The Latest Breaking News from Brett Kavanaugh

Native Americans say the Supreme Court has reaffirmed their power to withstand threats from states in many areas

An unexpected U.S. Supreme Court ruling has upheld a key section of the Voting Rights Act. But many voting rights advocates and legal scholars are bracing for new efforts to dismantle the law.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion for the Supreme Court in Haaland v. Brackeen is conservative in the good, old-fashioned sense of the word. In upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act, the court reaffirmed precedent and declined an invitation to revolutionize the law with a reactionary constitutional holding. Along the…

The Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act, a 1978 law enacted to protect Native American children in the U.S. and strengthen their families, in a June 15, 2023, ruling. Tribal leaders praised the decision as upholding the basic constitutional principles governing the relationships among Native…

The Supreme Court has preserved a federal law giving preference to Native American families when it comes to adopting Native children in foster care

The court’s decision this week served as an affirmation that race-conscious protections such as these can and should exist in US law

Steve Vladeck offers a closely argued, detailed case against the justices’ use of procedure to advance a rightwing agenda

Chief justice’s opinion shocked observers of his 40-year assault on the Voting Rights Act, but it may not mean a change of heart

Perhaps they know they need to preserve whatever is left of their legitimacy

Supreme Court rejecting Alabama maps that diluted Black voting power may have big implications in other states

It did so in today's Voting Rights Act ruling in Allen v. Milligan. This holding has implications for other cases where litigants attempt to overturn statutory precedents, especially longstanding ones.