THE U.S. SUPREME COURT

The Trump presidency is now history. So how will it rank?

But as historians consider the legacy of Donald Trump, it appears that even the woefully inadequate Buchanan has some serious competition f...

Citizenship data is latest rollback of Trump census efforts

As part of an order President Joe Biden signed Wednesday on the 2020 census, the Census Bureau said Friday that it would discontinue effort...

SC Collegium approves appointment of four Additional Judges of Karnataka HC as Permanent Judges

The Collegium headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde in a meeting held on December 16, 2020 approved the proposal which was was uploaded on the ...

Trump's legacy: A more divided America, a more unsettled world

Closing out his presidency exactly four years later, Trump leaves behind an even more polarized America, where thousands are dying daily fr...

President-elect Biden's hefty to-do list starts with a flurry of orders and promises to keep

Overshadowing everything at the very start is Biden's effort to win congressional approval of a $1.9 trillion plan to combat the coronaviru...

Unidentified gunmen kill two women judges in Afghan capital, several injured in attack

Supreme Court of Afghanistan spokesman Ahmad Fahim Qawim, said the women were judges who worked for the high court but he did not identify ...

US Supreme Court clears way for execution of only woman on federal death row

Challenges were fought across multiple federal courts on whether to allow execution of Montgomery, 52, who had initially been scheduled to ...

The warning from acting U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen comes days after the Sindh High Court in Pakistan's south overturned a governme...

Right of being represented through lawyer is part of due process clause, says Supreme Court

"In case the advocate representing the cause of the accused, for one reason or the other was not available, it was open to the court to app...

Donald Trump's court appointments will leave decades-long imprint

Donald Trump used the promise of conservative judicial appointments to win over Republican skeptics as a candidate. Then as president, he r...

Trump returns to court in Wisconsin as time running out

Trump was pushing to overturn Joe Biden's narrow win in Wisconsin with both a state and federal lawsuit in courts there and as part of a br...

Even in defeat, Donald Trump tightens grip on state GOP lawmakers

The extraordinary intervention by the president, and the willingness of some top party leaders to abet his effort to subvert an election, d...

Biden says he hopes Supreme Court rejects Trump bid on 2020 census count

The court heard arguments on Tuesday in the administration's bid to fend off a legal challenge to the plan, which is one of Trump's hardlin...

Supreme Court seems skeptical of Trump's census plan

The census already is facing novel questions over deadlines, data quality and politics, including whether the incoming Biden administration...

'Calling vote unfair doesn't make it so': US court rejects Trump's Pennsylvania election case

"Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make i...

Judge calls Trump claim challenging Biden win in Pennsylvania 'Frankenstein's Monster'

U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, described the case as "strained legal arguments without merit and speculat...

Donald Trump's appointee Amy Coney Barrett takes part in first Supreme Court arguments

Although Barrett officially started work last Tuesday, she did not participate in Friday's private conference in which the justices discuss...