The Supreme Court’s landmark opinion on same-sex marriage isn’t the only high-profile precedent the justices will have an ...

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, ...

State legislators are scheduled to hold floor votes on Thursday, according to a schedule from Democratic leadership.

Democratic presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she believes the Supreme Court is poised to overturn its landmark ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which ...

In 2022, 53 lives were lost, many of them children, and 94 people injured in six mass shootings across the country involving ...

The case before the Supreme Court, United States v. Rahimi, puts a 30-year-old federal gun law designed to protect survivors of domestic violence in the spotlight.

As of 2025, here is the full list of the nine justices in the United States Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts Date appointed: Sept. 29, 2005.

These legal fights, which can escalate all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, can determine the fate of controversial laws and issues, such as abortion access and immigration policies.

laws and constitutions establish state courts. In all 50 states and Washington, D.C. the highest-ranking court is a state supreme court or a court of last resort.