U.S. SUPREME COURT

The vote came in the wake of the uproar after Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz got a life sentence because the jury couldn't agree unanimously on sentencing him to death.

A federal judge in Texas who previously ruled to dismantle the Affordable Care Act struck down a key part of the law. Opponents say the ruling jeopardizes preventive care for millions of Americans.

A lawsuit against the state of Maine claims its tuition reimbursement program unfairly targets religious schools by requiring compliance with pro-LGBTQ "antidiscrimination" mandates.

The staff writer was honored Tuesday for columns and essays about abortion before and after the repeal of Roe v. Wade.

The U.S. Supreme Court will not review the GOP-controlled Kansas congressional map. Democrats viewed the congressional map as political gerrymandering.

The New Hampshire House on Thursday rejected multiple bills restricting abortion, including a proposed fetal heartbeat bill similar to those enacted in many red states.

In a victory for abortion-rights supporters, the Republican-led but closely divided New Hampshire House on Thursday rejected multiple bills to further restrict abortion access while also approving legislation to protect it. The eight abortion-related bills came up for a vote during what has been a hectic week for abortion policy nationwide. Nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a nationwide right to an abortion, court fights are playing out on multiple fronts, states dominated by Democrats are seeking to protect access and Republicans are trying to tighten restrictions.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a lone dissent on an abortion case stemming from a lawsuit in Missouri involving a pregnant teenager.

The U.S. abortion landscape is far from settled nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to terminate a pregnancy.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court narrowly ruled Tuesday that exceptions to the Sooner State's strict abortion law may be made in cases that threaten the mother's life.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a portion of the state's ban on abortion, ruling women have a right to an abortion not just in a medical emergency.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has overturned a portion of the state’s ban on abortion, ruling women have a right to an abortion not just in a medical emergency.

Supreme Court is being asked to review whether a law prohibiting the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic violence restraining orders violates the Second Amendment.

The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to allow a federal ban on gun ownership for individuals under domestic abuse retraining orders to stand.

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide a critical water rights case in the arid Southwest.

States that rely on water from the over-tapped Colorado River want the U.S. Supreme Court to block a lawsuit from the Navajo Nation that could upend how water is shared in the Western U.S. The tribe doesn't have enough water and says that the federal government is at fault. Roughly a third of residents on the vast Navajo Nation don’t have running water in their homes.

The North Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that an injunction on a law banning all abortions not performed in rape, incest or life-threatening situations will remain in place.

The decision came in a challenge to North Dakota's trigger ban brought by the Red River Women's Clinic.

The state's high court ruled Thursday that a North Dakota abortion ban will remain blocked while a lawsuit over its constitutionality proceeds.

The North Dakota Supreme Court has ruled that a state abortion ban will remain blocked while a lawsuit over its constitutionality proceeds.

Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature are proposing rape and incest exceptions to the state’s 1849 abortion ban and clarifying when abortions that protect the health of the mother would be allowed.

A conservative judge in Texas has raised questions about an effort to overturn the decades-old approval of a leading abortion drug, in a case that could threaten the country’s most common method to end pregnancies.

The North Carolina Supreme Court is hearing arguments again in a redistricting case it ruled on only three months ago.

Critics excoriated the justices for reexamining the redistricting case so soon after ruling on it, contending the justices were doing so for partisan reasons instead of legal ones.

A judge blocked enforcement of Ohio's near-ban on abortion. The judge's decision will be reviewed by the Ohio Supreme Court. The court will also review if clinics can challenge the law.

Ohio State University is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider questions about the law known as Title IX in a case stemming from lawsuits over decades-old sexual abuse by the late team doctor Richard Strauss.

A North Carolina judge granted a request allowing state lawmakers to defend laws regarding abortion pills. The request was made by House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger.

The city of Ocala, Fla., had asked the Supreme Court to consider whether a group of atheists had the legal standing to file suit under the Constitution.

With the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness plan at risk, borrowers should familiarize themselves with the existing relief options, experts say.

A $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News for its coverage of false claims surrounding the 2020 presidential election isn’t the only thing putting pressure on the standard for U.S. libel law.

Section 230 dictates that online platforms aren't responsible for the effects of users' speech, which has allowed the internet to become a massive ideological marketplace.

A proposal to ban abortion clinics in Utah and have them provided exclusively at hospitals passed the Utah Senate.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on President Biden's plan to forgive up to $20,000 of student debt for federal borrowers.

"Do you want to address why MOHELA's not here?" Barrett asked lawyers who argued Biden's debt relief would hurt the student-loan company.

President Joe Biden's student loan debt relief plan would forgive up to $20,000 for borrowers. The Supreme Court could rule on the legality of it this summer.

The Supreme Court has the final say on Biden's student loan forgiveness plan but college affordability will remain an issue for years to come.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear President Biden's proposal to forgive $400 billion in federal student loan debt. Challengers in six Republican-led states say it's an abuse of power that bypassed Congress. Chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford reports.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments challenging the Biden administration's plan to forgive the student loan debts of millions of Americans

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Tuesday pertaining to GOP-led states aiming to block President Biden's student debt forgiveness plan.

Justice Neil Gorsuch tacked on a handful of sentences to a 2021 Supreme Court ruling, planting the seeds of a legal fight that could further weaken Voting Rights Act protections for people of color.

The cases involved who qualifies for overtime pay, and Arizona's refusal to apply a Supreme Court precedent in death penalty jury instructions.

In Twitter v. Taamneh, the justices consider whether the company can be held responsible for aiding and abetting terrorism for failing to remove some posts.

The Supreme Courtly ruled Kate Bartenwerfer's lack of knowledge of her partner's fraud in a home sale did not protect her from owing a legal judgment.

Legal phrase tucked into 1996 law protects companies Facebook, Twitter and Google from being sued into oblivion for libel.

The Supreme Court has declined to revive an ACLU lawsuit challenging a portion of the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international email and phone communications.

The Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr. argued readers and politicians to “shame” conservative judges into issuing less conservative rulings.

Federal prosecutors charged fewer than two dozen people out of more than 7,500 possible threats Capitol Police reviewed last year.

A landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment is upending gun laws across the country, dividing judges and sowing confusion over what firearm restrictions can remain on the books. The high court's ruling that set new standards for evaluating gun laws left open many questions, experts say, resulting in an increasing number of conflicting decisions as lower court judges struggle to figure out how to apply it. The Supreme Court’s so-called Bruen decision changed the test that lower courts had long used for evaluating challenges to firearm restrictions.

GOP lawmakers filed briefs at the Supreme Court, asking the justices to block Biden's historic student loan forgiveness plan.

California lawmakers are going to try to officially repeal a 15-year-old voter initiative meant to ban same-sex marriage in the state.

"What Republicans are doing right now is they are testing the waters," said Jessi Bennion, a Montana State University political scientist.

Justice Department attorneys said in a Tuesday brief that the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency in the U.S. would terminate Title 42 immigration orders.

North Carolina's Supreme Court agreed to rehear a major redistricting case, leaving Moore v. Harper's "independent state legislature theory" hanging in the balance at the federal level.

A major U.S. Supreme Court case from North Carolina about a once-fringe election theory may end up getting tossed out of the high court now that a state court in GOP hands is rehearing the case.

The Supreme Court, with a majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, ruled there was no federal right to abortion, overturning its Roe v. Wade decision.

In New Mexico, cities and counties near the Texas border are aiming to erect an invisible wall against abortion providers and medications.

Marijuana users have a constitutional right to own firearms, a federal judge in Oklahoma City ruled on Friday, marking the latest challenge to firearms regulations.

A federal court has ordered a new trial for a Wyoming doctor who was accused of overprescribing medication, due to the nature of instructions given to jurors during his trial.

Supreme Court police officers are looking for a few good men and women — as are law enforcement departments around the country in a tight employment market.

Nine states are requesting a federal judge who previously called DACA an unlawful program to permanently end it, following years of legal challenges to the Obama-era policy.

Since the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to an abortion, many Muslims Americans have been turning to their faith to try to figure out: What does Islam say about the issue?

A federal judge on Monday blocked more provisions of New Jersey's gun control law, which restricts where concealed-carry permit holders may take their firearms.

Groups representing social workers and women say they have succeeded in forcing a small Ohio city to significantly narrow its abortion ban and dropped their lawsuit.

Over 16 million people have been approved for student loan forgiveness, but whether or not they see the relief will depend on the Supreme Court's decision.

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh says the public shouldn’t read anything into the high court’s historically slow start to releasing opinions.

The Colorado baker who won a partial U.S. Supreme Court victory after refusing to make a gay couple’s wedding cake because of his Christian faith has lost an appeal in his latest legal fight.

Oregon is launching a hotline offering free legal advice on abortion.

Women's marches demanding the protection of abortion rights drew thousands of people to the streets across the country on Sunday.

Vice President Kamala Harris is rallying supporters against efforts in Washington and in Republican-led states to restrict abortion on what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe vs.

Eight months, 126 formal interviews and a 23-page report later, the Supreme Court has failed to discover who leaked a draft of the court’s opinion overturning abortion rights.

A half century after Roe v. Wade, March for Life supporters are celebrating the dismantling of that constitutional right to abortion and heralding the political struggle set loose by the Supreme Court's decision.

Anti-abortion activists will have multiple reasons to celebrate — and some reasons for unease — when they gather Friday in Washington for the annual March for Life.

Like the tobacco, oil, gun, opioid and vaping industries before them, the big U.S. social media companies are now facing lawsuits brought by public entities that seek to hold them accountable for a huge societal problem in the mental health crisis among youth.

The Supreme Court has rejected an Israeli spyware maker’s bid to derail a high-profile lawsuit filed by the WhatsApp messaging service.

Supreme Court arguments are continuing long after a red light tells lawyers to stop.

An Arizona court ruled abortion doctors can’t be prosecuted under a pre-statehood law that criminalizes nearly all abortions yet was barred from being enforced for decades.

A familiar mix of disappointment, patience and determination spread among migrants on Mexico’s northern border waiting to enter the United States as they faced the reality that pandemic-era asylum limits would remain for now.

The U.S. has been using a public health rule intended to limit the spread of disease to expel migrants seeking asylum since the pandemic began.

The Supreme Court is keeping pandemic-era limits on people seeking asylum in place for now, dashing hopes of migrants who have been fleeing violence and inequality.

U.S. authorities say iIlegal border crossings by Cubans and Nicaraguans rose sharply in November while overall migration flows were little changed from October.

Wisconsin Republicans who control the Legislature are divided over whether to push for rape and incest abortion exceptions in the face of their Democratic governor's pledge to veto any bill that keeps the state’s 173-year-old ban in place.

Thousands of migrants are gathered along the U.S. border with Mexico, camping outside or packing into shelters while awaiting a Supreme Court decision on whether and when to lift pandemic-era restrictions that prevented many from seeking asylum.

The legality of abortions has been in flux in some states since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade six months ago.

Tensions remain high at the U.

With the passage of the the Respect for Marriage Act, which protects same-sex and interracial marriages, The Associated Press is republishing its 1967 story by reporter Karl R.

On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples had the right to marry.

As the Respect for Marriage Act moves toward final passage, much of the attention has been focused on the protection the law gives to same-sex couples.

The Supreme Court seems skeptical of making a broad ruling that would leave state legislatures virtually unchecked when making rules for elections for Congress and the presidency.

A U.S. Supreme Court case involving North Carolina's congressional districts could have ramifications for the way voting districts are drawn in other states.

Same-sex couples say they're happy that Congress is moving quickly to ensure nationwide recognition of gay marriage.

Legislation that ensures same-sex and interracial marriages are recognized as legal unions appears headed for final approval and President Joe Biden’s signature.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority is sounding sympathetic to a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples.

A federal trial to determine whether South Carolina’s congressional maps are legal is closing with arguments over whether the state Legislature diluted Black voting power.

The Georgia Supreme Court has reinstated the state’s ban on abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy.

Election wins for abortion rights and Democrats could translate into abortion protections in some states.

Alabama has called off the scheduled execution of a man convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife after the state had trouble establishing venous access and the state faced a midnight deadline to get the execution underway.

The office of Georgia's attorney general says it will appeal a ruling that overturns a ban on most abortions starting around six weeks of pregnancy.

Abortion rights supporters won in the four states where access was on the ballot.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday on the most significant challenge to a law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children.

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.