AMY CONEY BARRETT

On the day before the start of a new Supreme Court term in an America wrestling with deep divisions, D.C.’s Catholic leaders reprised a celebration of God and good work that has stretched 70 years.

The Supreme Court begins a new term on Monday at a time of diminished public confidence and justices sparring openly over the institution’s legitimacy.

The Supreme Court says it will continue providing live audio broadcasts of arguments in cases.

"The legitimacy of the court was undermined when they [Senate Republicans] wouldn't take up Merrick Garland," Franken said during a CNN segment.

A little-known federal judge appointed to the bench two years ago by Donald Trump is in the spotlight this week over her decision to hand the former president a major procedural win.

The few Republican candidates across the U.S. this year who say they support abortion rights still find themselves under attack on the issue.

Some alumni from Barrett’s alma mater say she broke the school honor code through ‘deeply inconsistent’ testimony.

Both Republican and Democratic presidents have their reasons for choosing nominees from such a small pool.

The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum has unveiled its bobblehead of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The bobbleheads are expected to ship in September.

Two of the Supreme Court justices who disagree most often on the outcomes of cases say they both still try hard to persuade each other, and sometimes succeed.

Two of the Supreme Court justices who disagree most often on the outcomes of cases say they both still try hard to persuade each other, and sometimes succeed. Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Amy Coney Barrett made the comments in a pretaped conversation made public for the first time Thursday evening. Barrett, a conservative, and Sotomayor, a liberal, were on opposite sides of a decision last month in which the court stripped away women’s constitutional protections for abortion.

In the span of a month, the Supreme Court overturned a half-century-old abortion right, knocked down a century-old New York concealed firearm carry law, made it much harder to hold law enforcement accountable for constitutional violations, frustrated the EPA’s ability to regulate emissions and eroded the wall between church and state, a series of activist rulings in the name of constitutional ...

About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices.

The Supreme Court won’t allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that prioritizes deportation of people in the U.S. illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.

Caitlin Bernard, an OB/GYN in Indianapolis, is also listed on an antiabortion website linked to Amy Coney Barrett before she was nominated to the Supreme Court and helped overturn Roe v. Wade.

The executive director of the nonprofit Advocates for Minor Leaguers has recommended Congress enact legislation nullifying Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption as it applies to minor league players.

Abortion, guns and religion _ a major change in the law in any one of these areas would have made for a fateful Supreme Court term.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority.

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.

Last week Clarence Thomas achieved two long-sought goals: expanding gun rights and overturning Roe v. Wade’s nationwide protection for abortion.

The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is officially becoming a justice.

The Supreme Court has allowed a former state trooper to sue Texas over his claim that he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq.

The chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to an advocacy group for minor leaguers asking questions about baseball’s antitrust exemption.

The end of Roe v. Wade started in the Senate.

The nine justices of the Supreme Court made clear in their landmark ruling Friday whether they stand on abortion.

Sweeping Supreme Court rulings on guns and abortion this past week have sent an unmistakable message.

Sen. Susan Collins is being criticized for the Supreme Court ruling allowing states to ban abortion because the moderate Republican voted to confirm two of the justices who were in the majority opinion.

Trump nominated three of the Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that affirmed a constitutional right to abortion.

Trump's three appointees to the high court were instrumental in gutting a federal right to an abortion.

"If you want to see an error in judgment, Clarence Thomas, look in the mirror," Jim Obergefell said in a statement.

The Supreme Court issued its biggest gun rights ruling in more than a decade.

The Supreme Court says it was wrong to wade into a dispute involving a Trump-era immigration rule that the Biden administration has abandoned, so the justices have decided to dismiss the case.

The new justice may help undercut her conservative colleague’s staunch defense of Native American sovereignty over judicial prosecutions and sentencing.

The Supreme Court has ruled that Native Americans prosecuted in certain tribal courts can also be prosecuted based on the same incident in federal court.

A man armed with a machete once broke into Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s vacation home in the Caribbean and took $1,000.

Protesters gathered outside of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s home, where she lives with her husband and seven children, on Thursday evening, according to reports.

Supreme Court financial disclosures reveal that the justices took in $800,000 in book royalties last year, a lucrative supplement to their judicial salaries.

A source told NPR clerks act as diplomats for justices, but the fear that their professional lives are under threat is straining the Supreme Court.

Take it from someone who was adopted: women need more options, not fewer.

A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints.

With mass shootings in Texas, New York and California fresh in Americans’ mind, the Supreme Court will soon issue its biggest gun ruling in more than a decade.

The Supreme Court on Monday made it more difficult for federal courts to review the factual determinations that can lead to the removal of noncitizens.

A sharply divided Supreme Court has ruled that federal courts are powerless to review immigration officials’ decisions in some deportation cases, even when they have made what a dissenting justice called “egregious factual mistakes.”.

Justice Clarence Thomas says that the Supreme Court has been changed by the shocking leak of a draft opinion earlier this month.

A look at three common beliefs about the Supreme Court's expected ruling about Roe vs. Wade.

Fairfax County officials have rebuffed a request from Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin to establish a security perimeter around the neighborhoods of Supreme Court justices living in the county who have faced protests outside their homes.

The Supreme Court’s nine justices met in private for the first time since the leak of a draft opinion that would overrule Roe v.

The House Natural Resources Committee announced its first-ever criminal referral to the Department of Justice on Wednesday, asking it to investigate whether Mike Ingram, an Arizona real estate developer and a campaign donor to Donald Trump, bribed public officials during Trump’s tenure as president, including then-Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt.

Have you been at home lately watching TV and had the sudden urge to add another human baby to your family? Good luck finding one!

From the archive: a selection of pieces about abortion rights and the courts.

What's “more traumatic?” McKinnon asked. “Ending an early pregnancy or giving full birth to a baby you can never see again because you put it on a Ferris wheel?”

When a draft of the opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito in the Mississippi abortion case was leaked late Monday, the potential outcome — the overruling of Roe v.

In one form or another, every Supreme Court nominee is asked during Senate hearings about his or her views of the landmark abortion rights ruling that has stood for a half century.

John Roberts is heading a Supreme Court in crisis.

The Supreme Court confirmed the authenticity of the draft opinion, which was circulated among the justices in February.

The stunning leak of a draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v.

Furious Senate Democrats are vowing to vote on legislation to protect abortion access for millions of Americans.

A recent RAND Corporation survey found that nearly 75% of school district leaders around the country felt political polarization interfered with their ability to teach their students.

The case would allow Oklahoma to prosecute non-Indians for crimes against Native Americans on Indian lands, which as a result of the 2020 decision means about 40 percent of the state.

A seemingly divided Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday over Oklahoma’s authority to prosecute some crimes on Native American lands, following a 2020 high court decision.

More Americans approve than disapprove of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as its first Black female justice, a new poll finds, but that support is politically lopsided.

The Supreme Court is the only court in the nation without a code of ethics, with no external check on judges deciding their conflicts of interest.

Republican Kelly Tshibaka has filed to run as a candidate for the U.S. Senate race.

A milestone Supreme Court confirmation that endured a flawed process.

Tearfully embracing a history-making moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court shows the progress of America.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will join a Supreme Court that is both more diverse than ever and more conservative than it’s been since the 1930s.

The Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court.

As the Senate moved closer to confirming the Supreme Court’s first Black female justice, the court’s first Latina told a university audience that the spotlight at times is harsh. But she was asked several questions about diversity, and what role her Latina heritage and humble upbringing played in her decision-making on the Supreme Court. I have worked as a district court judge, a circuit court judge. The Supreme Court is still closed to the public because of the pandemic, but this week saw the justices venturing out. Justice Amy Coney Barrett was at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, where other justices have preceded her.

Three Republican senators are breaking from their party to support Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's historic nomination to the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett says judges are not deciding cases to impose a “policy result,” but are making their best effort to determine what the law and the Constitution require.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he won’t vote for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The Supreme Court is casting doubt on Texas’ claim that it can’t be sued by a former state trooper who says he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq.

The letter followed news that Virginia Thomas urged then-President Trump's top aide Mark Meadows to try to overturn President Joe Biden's election win.

Through a decades-long career in conservative politics, Virginia Thomas has repeatedly maintained that her political activity represented no conflict of interest with the work of her husband, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent weeks of text messages imploring White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to act to overturn the 2020 presidential election — furthering then-President Donald Trump’s lies that the free and fair vote was marred by nonexistent fraud.

The latest nominee for a seat on the Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, has stressed the importance of religious faith in her life and career.

With Jackson likely to be confirmed, it’s expected the GOP will push hard for her to recuse herself from a big affirmative action case involving Harvard University. Here’s some of the relevant history.

The GOP-controlled Senate confirmed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in just 27 days — far less time than the historical average.

Ginni Thomas' hard-driving style alienated one of Trump's aides so much that the staffer described her as a "wrecking ball," per NYT Magazine.

As liberation movements bloomed, they offered a vision of reproductive justice that was about equality, not just “choice.”

The nation's highest court has not been without a graduate of Harvard Law since 1881.

The newest Supreme Court Justice isn’t just another conservative—she’s the product of a Christian legal movement that is intent on remaking America.

Nearly 50 years after Roe v. Wade, the future of women’s rights — and the Supreme Court’s reputation — hangs in the balance.

The bill has significant implications for Amazon, Apple and Google in particular.

Year after year, several thousand women in the U.S. carry an unintended pregnancy to term and then offer the baby for adoption. The reason, say people familiar with unintended pregnancies, is that even in those circumstances, a powerful bond is likely to form between the mother-to-be and the developing baby — and to vastly complicate any decision to put the newborn up for adoption.

With the help of safe-haven laws, which allow parents to anonymously surrender their babies, Monica Kelsey has installed more than ninety baby boxes—mailbox-like receptacles for infants—in five states.

"It doesn't seem to follow that pregnancy, and then parenthood, are all part of the same burden," said the Supreme Court justice.

To follow her own words in a 1998 law review article, Barrett should have recused herself.

On Dec. 1, the Supreme Court will consider a Mississippi law that could overturn Roe v. Wade — the 1973 ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion. Here's what we know about where each justice stands on the issue.

"Democrats have been overlooking the Supreme Court for a long time and are now getting a wake-up call," Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said.

The legal journalist Linda Greenhouse expects the new conservative majority to change American law on abortion, religion, and affirmative action.

"We really can't have our people liking posts promoting Joe Biden," Meadows told Andrew Hughes, a HUD official, per Jonathan Karl's forthcoming book.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a Second Amendment dispute that could have a major impact on state rules for carrying firearms outside the home.

The session also marked the first time Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the newest member of the court and the third appointee of former President Donald Trump, heard arguments in person.

Kavanaugh has been fully vaccinated since January and the high court said in a statement that he is not experiencing any symptoms.

Kavanaugh has been fully vaccinated since January and the high court said in a statement that he is not experiencing any symptoms.

The positive COVID-19 test for Justice Brett Kavanaugh came days before the Supreme Court was set to hold oral arguments for the first time in months.

Kavanaugh, 56, is showing no symptoms of the virus, the court said. He has been fully vaccinated against Covid since January.

Justices love to proclaim their impartiality, all evidence to the contrary.

If presidents do not get to replace justices in an election year, then Coney Barrett’s confirmation is illegitimate; if presidents do, then Gorsuch’s is illegitimate. You can’t have it both ways ‘In separate remarks this month, Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas both sought to assure the public that, in Coney Barret’s words, “this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks”.’ Photograph: Reuters In Planned Parenthood v Casey, a landmark decision from 1992, the US supreme court memora