The federal judiciary is being forced to confront a fundamental question: What to do when its orders are defied?

“In America the law is king,” wrote Paine. “For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ...

This is a fascinating challenge to Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law on the grounds that it violates the fundamental conditions placed on its 1870 re-admission to the Union. The Court’s docket ...

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...

Long before he wrote this month’s federal appeals court decision excoriating the Trump administration’s deportation system, Judge Harvie Wilkinson was a noted historian of a pivotal figure in Virginia ...

“Only the Supreme Court can decide the dispute and, in my opinion, the sooner, the better," a dissenting judge wrote. By Jordan Rubin UPDATE (April 9, 2025, 4:33 p.m. ET): Chief Justice John ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Wednesday, Texas Supreme Court Justice Jeff Boyd announced his plans to retire this summer before the end of his second term. Boyd’s decision to step down means Gov.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to intervene so the president can fire Democratic appointees at two independent federal agencies. The administration’s application asks ...

Read had filed an emergency request to stay the trial on Monday. The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Karen Read's emergency request to delay her state murder trial until it reviews her appeal.

Lawyers for Massachusetts murder suspect Karen Read are asking Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to put her trial on hold until after the nation's highest court considers her petition to ...

(The Center Square) – The Illinois Supreme Court did the dirty work for Democrats and are disenfranchising millions of voters, according to statehouse Republicans who challenged legislative maps.

The Supreme Court ruling that permits President Donald Trump to use a centuries-old wartime authority to speed deportations is drawing sharp criticism from immigration experts who fear the ...