Supreme Court allows Alabama to carry out first execution by nitrogen gas
The Supreme Court rejected Kenneth Smith's argument that it would be unconstitutional for the state to attempt a second execution after a failed lethal injection in 2022.
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The Supreme Court rejected Kenneth Smith's argument that it would be unconstitutional for the state to attempt a second execution after a failed lethal injection in 2022.
Texas has assembled razor wire along some sections of the U.S.-Mexico border to try to deter migrants from entering the country illegally.
The Supreme Court has allowed a court order to take effect that could loosen Apple's grip on its lucrative iPhone app store, and potentially affect billions of dollars in revenue a year.
The Supreme Court said Friday it will weigh whether a city's enforcement of rules prohibiting homeless residents from camping on public property violates the Constitution's protection from cruel and unusual punishment.
The first woman to serve on the nation's highest court lay in repose at the Supreme Court on Monday.
This latest $4.8 billion in relief brings the grand total of approved debt cancellation by the administration to $132 billion for over 3.6 million Americans.
Sandra Day O'Connor was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, and she retired in 2006.
A divided federal appeals court has found that private individuals and groups such as the NAACP do not have the ability to sue under a key section of the federal Voting Rights Act.
The new code of conduct was signed by all nine Supreme Court justices, but it's unclear how it will be enforced.
The case before the Supreme Court, United States v. Rahimi, puts a 30-year-old federal gun law designed to protect survivors of domestic violence in the spotlight.
The case before the Supreme Court involves a gun law enacted by Congress nearly 30 years ago that prohibits people under domestic violence restraining orders from having firearms.
Court documents show Idaho police began investigating the pair earlier this summer after a 15-year-old girl's mother told authorities her daughter had been sexually assaulted and later taken to Oregon to get an abortion.
A federal judge who previously overturned California's three-decade-old ban on assault weapons did it again, ruling Thursday that the state's attempts to prohibit sales of semiautomatic guns violates the constitutional right to bear arms.
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Twenty-five years have passed since gay 21-year-old college student Matthew Shepard died after being beaten and tied to a remote fence.
Utah has become the latest state to sue TikTok, alleging the social media company is "baiting" children into addictive and unhealthy habits.
Former baseball MVP Steve Garvey is joining the race to succeed the late California Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
The Supreme Court convenes Monday for a new term that brings cases on free speech, agency power and the Second Amendment.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law on Wednesday that aims to stop other states from prosecuting doctors and pharmacists who mail abortion pills to patients in places where the procedure is banned.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law that will raise taxes on guns and ammunition.
A federal judge has struck down a California law banning gun magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sued an anti-abortion group and a chain of anti-abortion counseling centers, saying the organizations misled women when they offered them unproven treatments to reverse medication abortions.
As America enters an unprecedented and historic moment in which presidential politics and federal criminal prosecutions have merged, some lawmakers are calling for cameras in courtrooms.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says the state will intervene in an ongoing court case blocking San Francisco from cleaning homelessness encampments.
Years after assistant coach Joe Kennedy left a Washington state high school football team over objections to his post-game praying on the field, he has returned to the gridiron thanks to a Supreme Court decision.
The administrative stay from Justice Samuel Alito will remain in place until August 8.
