President Donald Trump broke a long-standing tradition during his inauguration when he didn't place his hand on the Bible, prompting some to blame Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who was administering the oath of office. It is tradition to use a ...
President-elect Donald Trump's recent defeat at the Supreme Court tells us important things about the high court.
While the Constitution does not specify who must administer oaths, Chief Justice John Roberts is expected to swear in Donald Trump on Monday, continuing a two-century-old tradition.
While the Court’s politics have veered right over the past decade, the justices’ prose has shifted left, becoming more colloquial and accessible.
The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death during a traffic stop in Houston over unpaid tolls.
In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons have shattered political and legal norms. But one order is in a category of its own.
It isn’t surprising that JD Vance was sworn in as vice president by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, with whom Vance and his wife have longstanding ties. Usha Chilukuri Vance clerked for Kavanaugh when he was an appellate judge in a year when all four of his clerks were women.
Although presidents and other government officials have historically sworn the oath on a Bible, the Constitution doesn’t require it.
The Supreme Court upheld a law that requires TikTok's Chinese owner to sell off the app's U.S. business or face a nationwide ban Sunday.
Concern over dangers to children from increasingly easy access to hardcore pornography online dominated U.S. Supreme Court arguments on Wednesday in a high-profile dispute over a growing number of state laws requiring adult websites to verify the age of users.
Even the motivations behind Barrett's rushed nomination were called into question, painting her as the vessel through which Republicans would finally be able to overturn the Affordable Care Act due to a case arriving at the court about the same time as she did in October 2020.
Deadline: White House” legal reporter and former prosecutor Jordan Rubin answers your questions about the Supreme Court, Trump’s cases and other legal issues.