The case tests the balancing act states must strike in protecting the voting power of a racial minority while not ...

Justice Samuel Alito issued a detailed statement encouraging the Court to reconsider what exactly the Constitution's ...

Kevin Burns says every day is the best day of his life. In his nearly 30 years on death row, he has been ordained as a pastor and started a church.

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

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

A divided Supreme Court declined to block the execution of Jessie Hoffman, who was put to death on Tuesday night in Louisiana. Four justices would have put Hoffman’s execution on hold – one short of ...

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

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

In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court refused to grant a stay to block Louisiana's execution of an inmate by use of nitrogen gas.

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

President Donald Trump has a new hobbyhorse: That his predecessor, President Joe Biden, didn’t legally grant pardons to ...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has broken with the Court majority more than any other justice this term.