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The Supreme Court seems likely to reject a call to overturn decades of precedent and limit the ability of individuals to use federal civil rights law to sue.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed unlikely to agree to overturn decades of precedent in a case about civil rights lawsuits, a result that would preserve the ability of individuals to use federal law to sue. The justices had been asked to use a case about a nursing home resident who claimed a violation of his rights to more broadly limit the right to sue. The justices were told that result could leave tens of millions of people who have rights under federal programs including Medicare and Medicaid without access to the courts.

The case involved an Ohio man on death row for the 1989 murder of Bryan Jones.

New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued her first Supreme Court opinion.

New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued her first Supreme Court opinion, a short dissent Monday in support of a death row inmate from Ohio. Jackson wrote that she would have thrown out lower court rulings in the case of inmate Davel Chinn, whose lawyers argued that the state suppressed evidence that might have altered the outcome of his trial. Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the only other member of the court to join Jackson's opinion.

The Supreme Court will hear a water dispute involving the U.S. government and the Navajo Nation.

The Supreme Court looks more like America than it ever has.

A lawyer for a man on Arizona’s death row has told the U.S. Supreme Court that jurors in the case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure the man would never walk free was to sentence him to death.

A conservative majority on the Supreme Court is expected to be open to the idea of ending the use of race, or affirmative action, in college admissions.

A Supreme Court that is the most diverse in history will hear two cases Monday challenging the use of affirmative action in higher education.

Two Black justices, one Latina and an ascendant conservative bloc take up race-based college admissions policies that have splintered previous courts.

Justice Elena Kagan says “time will tell” whether the Supreme Court can get back to “finding common ground” after a term in which the court’s six conservatives and three liberals split over major issues including abortion and gun rights.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday said that fellow Justice Clarence Thomas “cares about legal issues differently than me,” adding that she thinks “not everyone” can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Sotomayor, speaking at Chicago’s Roosevelt University praised her colleague and said that he “cares about people.” “He cares about legal issues differently…

Hispanic Heritage Month is a great time to learn more: For some, more about your own heritage, or for others, perhaps another culture.

A divided Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Black Texas death row inmate who argued he didn’t get a fair trial because jurors who convicted him objected to interracial marriage.

The Supreme Court’s nine members have posed for their first formal group photo following the addition of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor called out Justice Samuel Alito in the Alabama redistricting case. In Merrill v. Milligan, the Supreme Court will be deciding an extremely important case regarding gerrymandering. After the 2020 Census, Alabama redid their congressional redistricting map for 2021 that was drawn by the state's GOP-legislature.

The Supreme Court began its new term Monday with a new justice on the bench, the public back in the courtroom and a spirited debate in a case that pits environmental protections against property rights.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she has “a seat at the table now and I’m ready to work,” leaning into her history-making role as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

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

Yeshiva University has abruptly suspended student club activity in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this week that ordered the school to recognize for now an LGBTQ student group.

Yeshiva University in New York asked the justices to intervene after a state court said the school must provide the group with access to certain facilities.

The high court voted 5 to 4 to stand aside while a legal battle goes on in New York

The Supreme Court issued an administrative order that allows Yeshiva University to refuse to recognize an LGBTQ club for students.

Yeshiva University in New York asked the justices to intervene after a state court said the school must provide the group with access to certain facilities.

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for an LGBTQ group to gain official recognition from a Jewish university in New York, though that may not last.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor returned Thursday to the Bronx community where she grew up to see the unveiling of a bronze bust of the 68-year-old justice at a shopping center in the heart of the community.

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

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.

Justice Samuel Alito for the first time publicly spoke about the decision he authored reversing the constitutional right to abortion.

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

The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions.

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.

The Soledad O'Brien hosted show “Matter of Fact'' is making an impression as a weekend syndicated news program despite hours that are an insomniac's dream.

The U.S. Postal Service is celebrating the release of a new series of stamps honoring the traditional Mexican genre of mariachi.

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 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.

The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is set to be sworn in as the court's 116th justice on Thursday.

In a dissent, Sotomayor said Gorsuch's summary "misconstrues the facts." The dispute echoes what what happened at the appeals-court level.

The court ruled 6-3 for the coach with the court's conservative justices in the majority and its liberals in dissent.

Justice Sotomayor said the Supreme Court's decision siding with a praying football coach will force states to "entangle themselves with religion."

Justice Sotomayor said the Supreme Court's decision siding with a praying football coach will force states to "entangle themselves with religion."

The Supreme Court has made it easier for certain prison inmates to seek shorter sentences under a bipartisan 2018 federal law aimed at reducing racial disparities in prison terms for cocaine crimes.

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

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 majority overruled Roe and Casey "because it has always despised them," wrote Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in a joint dissent.

Here of some of their statements and tweets.

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

The Supreme Court is giving Republican legislative leaders in North Carolina a win in an ongoing fight over the state’s latest photo identification voting law.

The case involves an unusual program in a small state that affects only a few thousand students. But it could have greater implications as the more conservative court relaxes the constitutional line between church and state.

Sotomayor defended Thomas the same day that a House Democrat demanded the "corrupt jurist who has poisoned the High Court" resign.

Each day seems to bring a new controversy for the court, and Thursday’s was the additional revelations about Thomas, the wife of its longest serving member, Justice Clarence Thomas.

The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously for an American woman who is involved in a bitter international custody dispute with her Italian husband over their young son.

The rulings came as the court begins a sprint to try to clear its docket by the end of the month or early July.

Alito’s opinion suggests, without saying so, that the conservative justices may not be very sympathetic when the case returns to them.

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 has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders. In two cases decided Monday, the court said that the immigrants, who fear persecution if sent back to their native countries, have no right under a federal law to a bond hearing at which they could argue for their freedom no matter how long they are held. The justices also ruled 6-3 to limit the immigrants ability to band together in court, an outcome that Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote “will leave many vulnerable noncitizens unable to protect their rights.”

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

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

Annual financial-disclosure reports released by the Supreme Court show the justices were paid thousands to teach at law schools and give speeches.

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.

In a 6-3 decision, the court’s conservative majority reinforced protections for government officials who are generally immune from civil lawsuits.

The Supreme Court is limiting when someone can sue for a violation of their rights by a federal official.

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 Supreme Court has ruled along ideological lines against two Arizona death row inmates who had argued that their lawyers did a poor job representing them in state court.

Court’s conservatives made it harder for federal courts to hear such claims from state convictions, prompting stinging dissent.

A Supreme Court ruling related to inmates on Arizona's death row was called "perverse" by Justice Sotomayor in a dissent joined by two other liberal justices.

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.

Debates about abortion often center around the issue of when life begins. Some religions say it's at conception. Another says it's with the baby's first breath.

It's been clear in recent years that people in the United States don't have much faith in their institutions.

The fertile mind of Justice Stephen Breyer has conjured a stream of hypothetical questions through the years that have, in the words of a colleague, “befuddled” lawyers and justices alike.

The court's liberal wing has no desire to overturn the court's precedents, but its conservatives want to focus on accommodating religion in public schools and other public institutions.

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.

A leading Spanish museum says it's confident U.S. courts will again rule that a valuable French impressionist painting taken from a Jewish family by the Nazis belongs to the museum and not to the family's descendants.

The justices decide other low-profile cases as well, including the proper venue for a legal fight over Impressionist art turned over to the Nazis.

In an 8-1 decision, the justices agreed that Puerto Ricans can continue to be excluded from SSI benefits for low-income disabled and blind people.

The court ruled 8-1, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor as the lone dissenter.

The Supreme Court has upheld the differential treatment of residents of Puerto Rico, ruling that Congress was within its power to exclude them from a benefits program that’s available in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress is not required to extend a federal disability benefits program to residents of Puerto Rico.

New York City began requiring public school employees to be vaccinated in the fall of 2021.

The Supreme Court is declining to wade into a lawsuit filed by four New York City public school employees over a policy that they be vaccinated against COVID-19.

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.

Ketanji Brown Jackson is eminently qualified, but her confirmation hearings will reflect the pernicious and, at times, unhinged discourse in Washington.

The Supreme Court has yet to rule on a Mississippi case that could end abortion protections guaranteed by Roe v. Wade.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for the majority, said courts should recognize the “weighty interest that a State has in protecting its own laws.”

If confirmed, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would join Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett on the nine-person Supreme Court.

If Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed by the Senate, the Supreme Court's conservatives will still hold a 6-to-3 majority.

Unwritten ideas necessarily guide even the strictest readings of the text, despite what some originalist jurists like to believe.

The idea that Black people are getting something they have not earned by gaining access to something white people have long had began the second that slavery was abolished.

President Biden promised during his campaign to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court. Now, he may have the chance.

"While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends," Sotomayor and Gorsuch said.

The statement came after a report said that Gorsuch refused to wear a mask, despite a request from Chief Justice John Roberts for all justices to do so.