A federal court in New York handed President Donald Trump a big setback Wednesday, blocking his audacious plan to impose massive taxes on imports from almost every country in the world.

The Supreme Court has debated legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for nearly all individuals born in the United States. District judges have issued nationwide injunctions against the order,

Although it is not known for swiftness, the Supreme Court surprised the nation last week with a relatively speedy decision on its first case involving charter schools. The court heard oral arguments for St.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday announced it won’t hear a closely tracked religious freedom clash out of Arizona and revealed that at least two of the court’s nine justices aren’t pleased with the decision.

Two decades after Granholm v. Heald was supposed to end protectionist shipping laws, states and lower courts continue to undermine the decision.

The justices left in place a lower-court decision that allows the transfer of land in central Arizona known as Oak Flat that is sacred to Western Apache Indians.

In the case of a tie at the Supreme Court level, the lower court decision remains in place. Tie rulings may become more common moving forward as the justices adapt to the court’s relatively new ethics code. The code, which was adopted in 2023, puts more pressure on the justices to track and disclose potential conflicts of interest.

The Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative majority is increasingly signaling it wants to eviscerate precedent that has protected certain federal agency leaders from at-will termination by the president for nearly a century.

The Supreme Court is turning to the final weeks of a busy term that started off with blockbuster appeals over transgender rights and TikTok but that has increasingly become wrapped up in the policies and politics of President Donald Trump.