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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.

Supreme Court justices have taken to publicly bickering over whether recent conservative majority decisions have undermined the credibility and reputation of the institution.

Alito made the comments during a Tuesday university speech during which he made no mention of Roe v. Wade's reversal.

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

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a Texas law targeting major social media companies like Facebook and Twitter.

Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch have suggested there could soon be an update into the Dobbs v. Jackson leak investigation. The inquiry has lasted months.

Chief Justice John Roberts is defending the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, saying its role should not be called into question just because people disagree with its decisions.

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

The Dobbs decision is clearing the political ground for a resolution in favor of abortion rights.

The justice has played a key role on the court, often leading the charge not just on abortion, but for expanded religious rights, against LGBTQ rights, against expanded voting rights, and more

In Kansas, where the right to abortion is enshrined in the state constitution, an upcoming ballot measure could pave the way for a total ban.

Justice Samuel Alito responded to critics of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Prince Harry.

Justice Samuel Alito mocked foreign leaders’ criticism of the Supreme Court decision he authored overturning a constitutional right to abortion, in his first public comments since last month’s ruling.

Alito's legalistic defense of religion in the United States shares common roots with Greene's call for "Christian nationalism."

Baldwin, the first openly gay person elected to the Senate, is leading the charge to secure the 10 Republican votes needed for a filibuster-proof majority to pass a bill codifying marriage equality.

The chief justice, a conservative, tried to persuade Justice Brett Kavanaugh and to a lesser extent, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, according to CNN.

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

The judiciary is supposed to be informed by historical memory, and guided by more than its members’ whims.

Less than 24 hours after the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion that overturned Roe v_ Wade, Chief Justice John Roberts ordered an investigation into what he called an “egregious breach.”.

The Senate has unexpectedly launched a new push to protect same-sex marriage in federal law.

The Supreme Court’s right-wing justices claim to be originalists, but then they pick and choose the history that fits their ideological preferences.

His opinion in the case of a public-high-school football coach who led prayers on the fifty-yard line privileges religious speech.

The House has overwhelmingly approved a bill tp protect same-sex and interracial marriages.

A radical and baseless legal theory could upend the country’s most essential democratic process.

Conservatives think they are righting a historical wrong, but the two decisions represent entirely different approaches to the law.

The right to abortion is an affirmation that women and girls have the right to control their own destiny.

State legislatures will be in the spotlight as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling giving the power to regulate abortion to the states.

In a departure from earlier Supreme Court decisions on abortion, Justice Alito's abortion opinion barely mentions medicine. This creates a perilous new legal reality for doctors, legal analysts say.

Abortion, guns, religion.

Can the liberal Justices hold the conservatives back—by appealing to shame or the Constitution—as the consequences of the majority’s recklessness become even more dangerous for American democracy?

The Supreme Court's decision eliminating the constitutional right to abortion is causing anxiety for people in same-sex marriages, particularly those with children.

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

The Supreme Court has declined to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that doesn't offer an exemption for religious reasons.

The case could diminish the power of state courts to order changes to rules for federal elections approved by state lawmakers.

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.

Yes, Roe was the product of an activist Court. But overturning it is even worse.

The View host Sunny Hostin is catching it online for revealing her personal stance on abortion in light of Roe v. Wade being ruled unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court ruling to overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision is unpopular with a majority of Americans — but did that matter.

Democrats can look across the aisle if they want pointers on how to overcome the challenges of an unrepresentative political system, a stacked Court, and their internal divisions.

The memo also laid out the conservative justice's strategy for eventually overturning abortion rights in the US, The New York Times reported.

“The writings from which the Court cherry-picked my quotes were totally supportive of the result in Roe," says Laurence Tribe.

Women now account for nearly 50% of the U.S. workforce.

More than a month ago, a stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicated that the Supreme Court was prepared to take the momentous step of overruling the Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and stripping away women's constitutional protections for abortion.

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.

The right to choose abortion is important. Even when women don’t choose it.

Conservative justices’ are using dubious historical analysis and legal interpretation to reshape American society.

Where is abortion still legal? Could this ruling affect IVF or contraception? Here are some answers.

Where is abortion still legal? Could this ruling affect IVF or contraception? Here are some answers.

They are the most fiercely polarizing issues in American life: abortion and guns.

The Supreme Court’s decision to end the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion has catapulted businesses of all types into the most divisive corner of politics.

The crude reality of the political machinations involved in overruling Roe v. Wade makes it galling to read the Court’s self-portrayal as a picture of proper judicial restraint.

Until recently, the Court hewed closely to shifting public views on key social issues like same-sex marriage, private sexual conduct, workplace protections for transgender people and popular support for laws and executive orders on immigration and health care.

"The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion," Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority. The court's liberals warn that other rights could now be vulnerable.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling drew fiercely polarized reactions in Florida, with Gov. Ron DeSantis saying the state will “work to expand pro-life protections.”

The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade to end constitutional protections for abortion hews closely to the leaked draft opinion that was published in May.

Nearly half the states are expected to outlaw or severely restrict abortion as a result of the Supreme Court's decision, CNBC reports.

Here of some of their statements and tweets.

The United States Supreme Court on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade,

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision allowing states to ban abortion is stirring alarm among LGBTQ advocates.

The Mississippi case was the culmination of a generations-long push on the right to overturn or weaken the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision on abortion.

A truck hit at least two protesters Friday night following an abortion rights rally in Iowa.

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, reversing Roe v. Wade, the court's five-decade-old decision that guaranteed a woman's right to obtain an abortion.

The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority.

The Supreme Court has stripped away women’s constitutional protections for abortion.

The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states. The decision, unthinkable just a few years ago, was the culmination of decades of efforts by abortion opponents, made possible by an emboldened right side of the court that has been fortified by three appointees of former President Donald Trump.

The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that enshrined abortion as a constitutional right in the U.S. for almost half a century.

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

A Supreme Court decision revoked the ability of states to limit concealed-carry permits — a subject on which public opinion is hard to measure.

The Supreme Court has ruled law enforcement officers can’t be sued for money damages when they violate the rights of criminal suspects by failing to provide the familiar Miranda warning before questioning them.

Erica Jong celebrated women who wouldn’t settle for less than freedom and equality. Now those things I took for granted are on the line.

The Supreme Court is limiting the reach of a federal statute that requires stiff penalties for crimes involving a gun.

The Supreme Court seems poised to take on a new elections case being pressed by Republicans.

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 Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders.

The Supreme Court is allowing elections officials to count mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania that lack a handwritten date but were received in time.

The Supreme Court is allowing elections officials to count mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania that lack a handwritten date but were received in time. Last week, Alito had imposed a temporary hold on counting the ballots to give the justices more time to consider the matter. At the time, former hedge fund CEO David McCormick was locked in a tight contest with celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination.

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.

The current Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority. Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United StatesWith a 6-3 majority, conservative justices on the Supreme Court may appear poised to hand down decisions that the Republican presidents who appointed them would applaud. As a political scientist who has published several books on law and politics, I know it’s true that the political affiliation of the president who appointed a justice is a powerful indicator of how that

LGBTQ advocates in states with same-sex marriage bans that were nullified by the U.S. Supreme Court seven years ago are sounding the alarm that overturning Roe v.

A public policy professor wonders why no antiabortion originalists have acknowledged the 9th Amendment.

A self-assured right-wing majority may be ready to radically alter our legal system and destroy the public’s trust in the Supreme Court and the law.

The person who leaked a draft ruling overturning Roe v. Wade could stop the acrimony and finger-pointing from getting worse by coming forward.

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court is temporarily blocking the counting of some mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the counting of some mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, an order that could affect the tight Republican Senate primary between former hedge fund CEO David McCormick and celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz. An order from Justice Samuel Alito paused a lower-court ruling in a lawsuit over a disputed 2021 local court election that would have allowed the counting of mail-in ballots that lacked a handwritten date. Based on that ruling, the state had advised counties to count those ballots in the race between McCormick and Oz.

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.

A conservative justice’s draft treats pregnancy as a simple matter: Either a uterus is occupied by a fetus or it is not.

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

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

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.

Supreme Court justices have long prized confidentiality.

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.

Little doubt remains about what the Supreme Court plans to do with Roe v.

The traditionally insular Supreme Court is about to face the full force of public pressure and abortion politics.

The Supreme Court’s leaked initial majority opinion on Roe v. Wade is nearly 100 pages long, and on Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed the document’s authenticity — but said it does not represent a final decision.

Politico boosted security and warned its staff members to take extra care online following the news organization's major scoop in publishing a Supreme Court draft decision that would strike down the Roe v.

People on both sides of the abortion divide have been anticipating that the Supreme Court this summer would reverse the landmark 1973 Roe v.