Constitutional ban on high fines applies to states, Supreme Court rules
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the Constitution's ban on excessive fines applies to the states, an outcome that could help efforts to rein in police seizure of property from criminal suspects.
Supreme Court says Ginsburg to attend court’s public session
The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is making her public return to the bench, eight weeks after surgery for lung cancer.
Justices to decide if 2020 census can ask about citizenship
The justices agreed Friday to a speedy review of a lower court ruling that has so far blocked the Trump administration from adding the citizenship question to the census for the first time since 1950.
The court fight over the 2020 census and why it matters
The justices could decide Friday or early next week whether they will hear the government's appeal.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has missed a month of Supreme Court arguments as she recovers from lung cancer surgery. But she's not the first justice to be away for a while and her absence hardly compares with those of some…
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's four liberals in putting a hold on the law, pending a full review of the case.
The 85-year-old Supreme Court justice attended a concert at a museum a few blocks from the White House.
The Supreme Court dealt with some of the most politically charged issues in the nation on Tuesday. National Law Journal’s Marcia Coyle joins Judy Woodruff to discuss why the Court's removal of the injunction on banning transgender military service people…
Megan Winters, a transgender sailor, says being able to transition while maintaining her Navy role left her personally and professionally “rejuvenated." Although the military cites little evidence that the presence of transgender service members jeopardizes military readiness, the Supreme Court…
