The Latest Breaking News from the US Supreme Court

The 2022 news that the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v Wade and ended the constitutional right to abortion sent shockwaves around the world.

As the election nears, voters are considering the two leading presidential candidates’ records on a wide range of issues, including civil liberties – a broad term used to describe the constitutionally protected freedoms that protect citizens from excessive government power. These key freedoms are contained in the Bill of Rights,…

A new report finds that women living in states with abortion bans obtained the procedure in the second half of 2023 at about the same rate as before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

Rep. Ilhan Omar advocates for Supreme Court reform by expanding justices, imposing term limits, and ethics code.

Robert Roberson, who had been set to be the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome, had his execution delayed after a dramatic few hours of legal wrangling among three different Texas courts

Some 79 countries around the world continue to enforce blasphemy laws. And in places such as Afghanistan, Brunei, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, violation of these measures can result in a death penalty.

An autistic man whose murder conviction was based on a questionable diagnosis of "shaken baby syndrome" is to be executed in Texas on Thursday barring a last-minute stay from the US Supreme Court.

A Mississippi judge has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged a potential conflict between a 2022 state law that bans most abortions and a 1998 state Supreme Court ruling that said abortion is guaranteed in the Mississippi Constitution

A group of Democrats in Congress is appealing to the largest U.S. companies to hold onto their diversity, equity and inclusion programs

The hearing is latest in years-long legal battle over Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy.

Mounting pressure to regulate children’s use of technology in the United States raises the question: Is childproofing the internet constitutional?