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A district attorney in Texas, convinced that the evidence that sent Areli Escobar to death row was flawed, is supporting his request for a new...

A missed insurance notice opened a window onto the cost of litigating challenges to race-conscious admissions programs to be heard this month by the Supreme...

Though the justice’s brief order gave no reasons, it was most likely based on the challenger’s seeming failure to show that it had standing to...

Without comment or any noted dissents, the court issued a one-sentence statement that amounted to a stinging rebuke to the former president.

In a lively argument over copyright law that included many references to pop culture, the justices struggled to determine when a new work transforms an...

A California law requiring that pork sold in the state come from humanely raised pigs posed questions about how far states can go in affecting...

In arguments in a voting rights case, the new justice said history must inform constitutional interpretation, making a liberal case for an idea often associated...

In earlier cases, the justices have ruled against Mr. Trump when he sought to shield his financial and presidential records from prosecutors and congressional investigators.

But several members of the court’s conservative majority rejected the state’s most aggressive arguments in defense of its congressional voting map.

The justices return to the bench on Monday to start a term that will include major cases on affirmative action, voting and discrimination against gay...