The Latest Breaking News from Elena Kagan

At a moment when the world should be racing to prevent the worst effects of global warming, the Supreme Court just made it harder for the U.S. to cut carbon emissions from power plants quickly and cost-effectively.

Lost in the furor over the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the nearly five decades of American bodily autonomy guaranteed by Roe v. Wade was another appalling ruling in Vega v. Tekoh. It undermined the landmark 56-year-old precedent that established what have come to be known as Miranda rights.

Supreme Court rules that the law does not give EPA broad authority to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

"I cannot think of many things more frightening," Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a fiery dissent

Democrats saw their climate action options dwindle Thursday as the Supreme Court diminished the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon emissions.

The conservative justices somehow concluded Congress did not grant the power to protect air quality, despite Congress literally passing a law called the “Clean Air Act.”

The Supreme Court sharply curtailed the EPA’s authority to regulate carbon pollution from electric utilities.

Midterm elections for at least three congressional seats will be decided in districts that likely violate the Voting Rights Act, civil rights groups have warned

More than a month ago, a stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicated that the Supreme Court was prepared to take the momentous step of overruling the Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and stripping away women’s constitutional protections for abortion