In Chief Justice John Roberts’s opening statement at his confirmation hearing, he explained that judges are like baseball umpires. “Umpires don’t make the rules,” he said. Their job is “to call balls ...

April 1995 – Sotomayor issues an injunction which ends the eight-month-long Major League Baseball strike. June 25, 1997 – President Bill Clinton nominates Sotomayor to the US Court of Appeals ...

April 1995 – Sotomayor issues an injunction which ends the eight-month-long Major League Baseball strike. June 25, 1997 – President Bill Clinton nominates Sotomayor to the US Court of Appeals ...

A Supreme Court ruling over a Montgomery County lawsuit gave parents the right to opt their kids out of lessons with LGBTQ+ ...

The Supreme Court has sided with religious parents who want to pull their children out of the classroom when a public school ...

Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean ...

A divided Supreme Court has ruled that individual judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions, but the decision ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote for five of the high court's justices, said additional prosecutorial misconduct, including interfering with Sneed’s testimony, destroying evidence and ...

The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids called the majority decision disappointing, saying it would allow manufacturers to “judge shop,” though it said the companies will still have to contend with the ...

In its bigotry and deceitfulness, US v. Skrmetti is destined to be seen alongside Plessy, Dobbs, Dred Scott, and all of the ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court’s senior liberal, slammed the Trump administration’s handling of immigration matters in a fiery dissent Monday and accused her colleagues of ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a 31-page dissent, arguing that the judiciary had long played a role in shielding individuals from discrimination. Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times ...