U.S. Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on whether New York’s gun laws violate the second amendment. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

It’s the U.S. Supreme Court’s biggest guns case in more than a decade, a dispute over whether New York’s law violates the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an Alabama inmate whose lawyers argued he had ineffective counsel at his trial.

In Boston, two teens — born just eight months apart — received very different sentences despite being convicted of the same crime.

U.S. Supreme Court rulings and state laws in recent years have limited or banned sentences of life without the possibility of parole for people who commit crimes as juveniles because of the potential for change

After speaking with gun safety experts, state and local leaders on Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced his five-part strategy to curb the spike in gun violence, including bolstering background check protocols, investing in community violence interventions and cracking down on gun dealers who skirt gun laws. “If you willfully sell a gun to someone who’s prohibited from possessing it, if...

The number of Supreme Court Justices changed 6 times before Congress settled on the 9 we’re now accustomed to. Here’s a history of “court packing” in the US

A possible expansion of gun rights is on the Supreme Court’s agenda, days after mass shootings in Colorado and Georgia

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear the government’s appeal of a lower court ruling that overturned the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

A history of racism and sexism in our country has translated to a lack of diversity in our federal judges. But it’s also due to neglected talent and political will, says the co-author of an opinion piece in The National Law Journal about the lack of Black women federal judges. Professor Catherine Smith of the University of Denver Sturm College...

With a now solid 6-3 conservative majority, the court will decide the future of President Barack Obama’s signature legislation, a law Republicans have long opposed but one that 20 million Americans now depend on for their health insurance.

Jeremy Dys, special counsel with the conservative First Liberty Institute, explains what Republicans expect from the U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges under a second Trump term — if he is re-elected.

Wisconsin cannot count mail ballots that arrive well after the polls close, under an order issued Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court, a defeat for Democrats in a battleground state, NBC News reports.

The U.S Senate will vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday evening. This isn’t Nostradamus-like prophecy. With a 53-47 Republican majority in the Senate it’s a mathematical certainty. So… what comes next?

The Senate is expected to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Monday after a highly partisan, rushed process. George Washington University Law Professor Paul Schiff Berman argues that her confirmation under these circumstances threatens the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and stability in the U.S.

Sen. Cory Booker speaks about the confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett returned to Capitol Hill for a third day of confirmation hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee

Again and again, Amy Coney Barrett insisted to senators on Tuesday that she has no “agenda” on issues like the Affordable Care Act, the future of abortion rights or same-sex marriage, and that she would be nobody’s “pawn” if confirmed to the Supreme Court, NBC News reports. “Do you think we should take the president at his word when he says his...

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett batted back Democrats’ skeptical questions on abortion, gun rights and election disputes in lively Senate confirmation testimony Tuesday, insisting she would bring no personal agenda to the court but would decide cases as they come.

Senate Republicans are vowing a quick confirmation for President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee