The Latest Breaking News from US Supreme Court

The first-ever Black woman on the nation’s high court is inaugurated days before a fall term begins

Gun rights groups and firearms owners have launched another attempt to overturn Connecticut’s ban on certain semiautomatic rifles that was enacted in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed more than a dozen laws aiming to make California an abortion sanctuary state

Other anti-abortion groups and Republicans said they will continue to support state Sen. Robert Nichols after his comments at The Texas Tribune Festival.

Idaho universities are warning staffers not to refer students to abortion providers or emergency contraception because they could face criminal charges under a state law

American schoolchildren are growing up with a badly oversimplified lesson about their own government. They are learning that the U.S. Supreme Court is the nation’s “highest court,” a label that erroneously diminishes the power of state supreme courts. Correcting this understanding goes beyond pedagogical accuracy — it is essential for…

Whether conservative South Carolina changes its abortion laws at all in the wake of this year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision is about to be decided by divided conservatives in the state House

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina lawsuit at the U.S. Supreme Court could undermine democracy as we know it, by allowing state legislators to override popular opinion in elections for Congress and possibly even the presidency, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters.

When it mattered most, Nixon and his crew found that people who might have been political allies in the past were not especially sympathetic to his case.