The Trump appointee isn’t known for siding with death row prisoners. But the reason he gave for doing so in a Louisiana case ...

The Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote declined to stop Louisiana from carrying out its first execution in 15 years later Tuesday ...

A grave threat to democracy was revealed during the first weeks of President Donald Trump ’s second term. But it does not ...

Trump’s propensity for law defiance is, of course, signed, sealed and convicted — 34 times. Thirty-four felonies, for which ...

A hallmark of President Trump’s criminal trials were his unsparing attacks on the judges who oversaw them. Now, he’s going to ...

The court has, for years now, deliberately avoided announcing hard-and-fast rules about the scope of injunctions that federal ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution marks the first time Louisiana has used the method and is the state's first ...

Jessie Hoffman was put to death on Tuesday after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. It was the state’s first execution ...

The Supreme Court has temporarily kept on the job the head of the federal agency that protects government whistleblowers.

Donald Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship has been routed so far in federal courts, but the case still could provide ...

The latest plea comes in the form of an emergency appeal the Justice Department filed with the court last week, seeking to ...