Donald Trump has fired many federal employees including multiple lawyers. It looks like he is moving toward a totalitarian ...

The Trump appointee isn’t known for siding with death row prisoners. But the reason he gave for doing so in a Louisiana case ...

The state of Louisiana carried out its first execution using nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening, after the Supreme Court ...

Justice Neil Gorsuch broke with the Supreme Court majority on a decision for a stay of execution for the first time this term ...

The Supreme Court’s decision last year in Trump v. United States gave the president of the United States criminal immunity ...

This article was updated on Feb. 25 at 1:57 p.m. The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Richard Glossip, who is on death row in Oklahoma for his role in the 1997 murder of motel owner Barry Van ...

In 5-3 decision, the justices set aside Richard Glossip's conviction, saying it may have been based on false testimony.

President Donald Trump is attempting to revive the president’s constitutional authority to refuse to spend funds in discrete ...

High court actions mean an excessive force finding in a fatal 2017 San Jose police shooting stands, and double-jeopardy arguments for a man charged in the 1992 killing of Laurie Houts are directed ...

The Supreme Court has ... Clarence Thomas wrote in a dissenting opinion. "And, for the remedy, it orders a new trial in violation of black-letter law on this Court’s power to review state ...

The Supreme Court was not fooled ... who attempted to defend these lawyers in his querulous dissent, joined by Justice Samuel Alito. (Justice Neil Gorsuch recused because he was involved with ...

The Supreme Court on Monday ... who served on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overseeing Oklahoma cases, recused himself from the decision. In dissent, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel ...