The Latest Breaking News from the US Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Mississippi death row inmate’s convictions for the slayings of eight people, including his mother-in-law and a deputy sheriff

Currently, about 5.3 million borrowers are in default on their federal student loans, but Education Department officials warned that the number could increase to 10 million within months.

Iowa’s top prosecutor is proposing an amendment to the state constitution to solve what one lawmaker called an “interesting conundrum.”

The US Supreme Court on Saturday paused the Trump administration's deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members under an 18th-century law.

The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday unsuccessfully asked two federal judges to bar deportation of Venezuelans held in northern Texas under President Donald Trump's invocation of an 18th century wartime law

The U.S. Supreme Court in March 2025 ended a decade-old lawsuit filed by a group of children who sought to hold the federal government responsible for some of the consequences of climate change. But just two months earlier, the justices allowed a similar suit from the city and county of…

Judge James Boasberg has ruled that probable cause exists to find the Trump administration in criminal contempt.

Birthright citizenship has been enshrined in the US Constitution for more than 150 years

What a difference a dictator makes. Some world leaders get a rough ride in their Oval Office meetings with Donald Trump – most famously, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, who the US president and his entourage publicly disparaged in their now-notorious meeting at the end of February. But not El…

Experts debunk claims of Trump declaring martial law, citing legal boundaries and confusion with the Insurrection Act.

Same-sex marriage, which the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 legalized nationwide in the case known as Obergefell v. Hodges, is facing resurgent hostility.