WASHINGTON — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote just five majority opinions in the Supreme Court term that ended last month, the fewest of any member of the court. But her voice resonated nonetheless ...

The ideological divide was clear in cases in which the justices acted on an emergency basis, sometimes called the "shadow ...

For all of the president’s braggadocio about the economy, a key detail in last month’s jobs report paints a bitter picture ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear two cases involving transgender athletes being banned from women’s sports at the ...

Michael Hardwick never envisioned himself as an activist or a public figure, but, by fate, he became one. Although he’s known ...

Michael Hardwick never envisioned himself as an activist or a public figure, but, by fate, he became one. Although he’s known widely as being at the epicenter of one of the most substantial gay rights ...

Opinion: Columnist David Lat writes that Justice Amy Coney Barrett seemed to turn rightward at the end of the SCOTUS term, ...

In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned, “No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. Today, the ...

A federal appeals court has ruled Alabama prosecutors violated the constitutional rights of a man sentenced to death in 1990.

The proposal is a response to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that dealt a blow to a small set of protections for people living outside in public.

In 1982, Michael Hardwick was arrested for "sodomy" in the privacy of his home. He took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, but that was just the beginning.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with attorney Theodore Boutrous, who is representing NPR in a legal challenge to Trump White House plans to stop federal funding of public media.