The Latest Breaking News from John Roberts

Jackson is the court’s 116th justice and she took the place Thursday of the justice she once worked for. Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement took effect this afternoon.

Supreme Court rules that the law does not give EPA broad authority to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

It tells you a lot about the U.S. Supreme Court, and the state of the country, that only one of its nine justices appears to have given the possibility of compromise on abortion more than a moment’s thought.

For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas sat mostly silent on the Supreme Court bench, content to let others debate the controversies of the day. Because Thomas would not argue in public, court watchers had no idea of how he processed arguments beyond his written dissents and concurrences.

In another bombshell opinion, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has upended the way it understands and applies the clause of the Constitution that prohibits the establishment of religion. Completing the revolution begun in last week’s decisions expanding gun rights and overturning abortion law, the court said in Kennedy v. Bremerton…

The minister said the discovery was not cause for alarm

Although the chief justice's incrementalism did not sway his colleagues, his observations about the meaning of a "right to choose" could be relevant in state legislatures.

PITTSBURGH — The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade could do lasting damage to the institution’s legacy as it signals a changing approach to precedent, according to legal experts.

Back-to-back rulings on guns and abortion eliminated any doubt the U.S. Supreme Court will be the transformational force Republicans envisioned when they filled three vacancies during Donald Trump’s presidency.