Author: John Fritze, USA TODAY

John Ramirez told the Supreme Court that a Texas policy prohibiting his pastor from placing his hands on him during his execution violated his rights.

A number of lawmakers in both parties have questioned how the Supreme Court handles emergency appeals through its so-called shadow docket.

The Supreme Court ruled a day after a Texas law banning most abortions after six weeks took effect, prompting an outcry from abortion rights groups.

A lower federal court said Biden officials improperly halted the Trump-era ‘remain in Mexico’ policy, which was intended to reduce immigration.

A federal court of appeals in Chicago upheld Indiana University’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate days earlier, citing a Supreme Court decision from 1905.

The state’s legal argument is the sharpest framing yet of the dispute as Mississippi engages in a frontal assault on the right to abortion.

The Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative majority could have weakened Chief Justice Roberts’ influence. Instead, his approach prevailed this term.

The lawsuit wound up back at the Supreme Court at a time when some states are passing laws to limit protections for transgender people.

Advocates for LGBTQ and religious rights say the Supreme Court decision will prompt new litigation testing the limits of religious freedom.

LGBTQ and religious rights have increasingly come into conflict at the Supreme Court since a landmark 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage.