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Drew Angerer / Getty Images Roaming Charges
The U.S. Supreme Court could soon consider whether police can review a cellphone’s whereabouts without a warrant.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Anthony Kennedy's Choice
The Supreme Court’s conservative swing vote faces a fateful decision.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters A Double Dose of Lawlessness
Monday’s court proceedings and Senate hearings offered troubling insight into how the Trump White House regards the rule of law.
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Wikimedia License to Speak
The state of Oregon is abusing its authority to regulate professional services to silence its critics.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Will the Supreme Court Defend Citizenship?
The federal government wants broad authority to strip naturalized immigrants of their hard-won status.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters How the Coming Church-State Showdown Could Be Avoided
The Supreme Court has ample reason to avoid deciding a case that could erode the Establishment Clause.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Supreme Court Considers Whether Churches Should Get Taxpayer Dollars
Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer has the potential to shape everything from state constitutions to school-voucher policies—if it doesn’t get thrown out.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The Case Halting Arkansas' Executions
The state’s plan to put several prisoners to death before its drugs expire runs into legal trouble that could reshape death penalty cases,
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Jim Young / Reuters Arkansas Wants to Execute Seven Inmates Before Their Drugs Expire
The state has announced its intention to quickly put to death more than half a dozen prisoners before their lethal-injection chemicals go bad.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters What’s Next for Justice Gorsuch?
The U.S. Supreme Court’s newest member missed most of this term’s cases, but he’ll still play an important role shaping the current docket.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters Justice Neil Gorsuch
The Senate on Friday confirmed the conservative appellate judge to the Supreme Court after a rancorous debate that saw the end of the judicial filibuster.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Republicans Abandon the Filibuster to Save Neil Gorsuch
In a historic party-line vote, the GOP changed the Senate rules to eliminate the 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court nominees and paved the way for President Trump’s pick to win final confirmation on Friday.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters An Uncomfortably Familiar Problem for a Trump Nominee
Reports in BuzzFeed and Politico suggest Judge Neil Gorsuch copied passages that appear in his book from another article, and may not have exercised care in attributing other material.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Did the President Incite a Riot?
A new case filed by anti-Trump protesters will test the limits of free speech—and the responsibility Trump bears for his own statements.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Going Nuclear for Neil Gorsuch
Democratic senators have 41 votes to block President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, setting up a standoff to rewrite the Senate’s filibuster rules.
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Susan Walsh / AP Democrats Go to War Over Neil Gorsuch
If Republicans want to confirm President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, they’ll likely have to change the rules and invoke the Senate’s “nuclear option.”
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Jason Reed / Reuters A Victory for the Eighth Amendment
A majority on the Supreme Court lets states know it is serious about barring executions of the mentally disabled.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters The Fundamental Dishonesty of the Gorsuch Hearings
The confirmation process has shed little light on the philosophy of President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court or on what kind of justice he will be.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Gorsuch: Roe v. Wade Is the 'Law of the Land'
At Wednesday’s hearing, Democratic senators adopted a new strategy to press the Supreme Court nominee on abortion and campaign finance.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters What Does Judge Gorsuch Believe?
On the second day of Senate hearings, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee offered few clues as to how he’d rule on specific issues if confirmed.
