Supreme Court

The federal government has carried out its first execution in almost two decades

After the Supreme Court’s decision not to stop the execution of Daniel Lewis Lee, the U.S. government carried out the first federal execution in nearly two decades on Tuesday.

We know the Supreme Court is important, but how does it work? George Washington University School of Law Professor Paul Schiff Berman explains how the court functions and the ways that coronavirus has changed its process this year.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a New York grand jury can subpoena President Trump’s tax returns, but separately said lower courts needed to reconsider whether Congress could subpoena his financial records. The 7-2 ruling in the New York grand jury case, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, says “Article II and the Supremacy Clause do not categorically preclude,...

The Supreme Court has ruled that Oklahoma prosecutors lack the authority to pursue criminal cases in a large chunk of eastern Oklahoma that remains an American Indian reservation

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Manhattan district attorney’s demand for President Donald Trump’s tax returns, voting 7-2 that a New York grand jury can subpoena the president’s financial documents. In a separate ruling, the justices kept a hold on Trump’s financial records that Congress has been seeking, sending the case to lower courts.

The bad blood between House Democrats and the Trump administration is growing by the day, with a court battle all but ensured now that the Treasury Department has formally denied the Ways and Means Committee’s request for President Trump’s tax returns.

The Supreme Court is expected to rule Thursday on whether Congress and the Manhattan district attorney can see President Donald Trump’s taxes and other financial records that the president has fought hard to keep private.

The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked a lower court ruling allowing curbside voting in Alabama and waiving some absentee ballot requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Supreme Court is denying Congress access to secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation through the November election

The Supreme Court has ruled that states can’t cut religious schools out of programs that send public money to private education

The Supreme Court says travel website Booking.com can trademark its name, a ruling that also impacts other companies whose name is a generic word followed by “.com.”

The biggest cases of the Supreme Court term so far have a surprising common thread.

The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision that rejected environmental groups’ challenge to sections of wall the Trump administration is building along the U.S. border with Mexico

The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices in the first big abortion case of the Trump era....
Chief Justice John Roberts joined with his four more liberal colleagues in ruling that the law requiring doctors who perform abortions have admitting privileges at...

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to wipe out Obamacare, arguing that the individual mandate is unconstitutional and that the rest of the law must be struck down with it.

The Supreme Court has strengthened the Trump administration’s ability to deport people seeking asylum without allowing them to make their case to a federal judge

The Supreme Court decision defending Dreamers was just the latest twist in a long battle over undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. But how did the DACA program begin in the first place? And what happens next? Emily Tisch Sussman, legal expert and host of the podcast Your Primary Playlist, breaks it down.

DACA expert Jon Greenbaum explains the history of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
and why the ultimate fate of ‘Dreamers’ remains unresolved.

Among the Supreme Court victories for California leaders last week… a de-facto upholding of the sanctuary state law, a challenge of which the high court chose not to hear. NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with the author of that legislation… former State Senate President pro Temp and incoming LA City Councilman.