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Senate review of Supreme Court ethics finds more luxury trips and urges enforceable code of conduct
A nearly two-year investigation by Democratic senators of Supreme Court ethics details more luxury travel by Justice Clarence Thomas and urges Congress to establish a way to enforce a new code of conduct.
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TikTok asks Supreme Court to block potential ban
TikTok asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a bipartisan-backed law that would ban the social media app in the United States if the company’s Chinese-based owner, ByteDance, doesn’t sell the platform to an American owner.
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Conservatives object as Supreme Court ducks case on high school admissions
For the second time since the court ended the consideration of race in college admissions, the justices declined to hear a case challenging a program aimed at bolstering diversity in public schools.
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Supreme Court seems likely to uphold Tennessee's ban on medical treatments for transgender minors
The court is considering a challenge to a Tennessee law that bars the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
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Supreme Court grapples with FDA's refusal to approve flavored vapes
As e-cigarettes have flooded the market, the FDA’s role in approving new tobacco products is put under a microscope.
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Supreme Court won't hear challenge to graphic cigarette warning labels
The Supreme Court won’t hear a challenge to a federal requirement that cigarette packages and advertising include graphic images demonstrating the effects of smoking.
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Supreme Court takes up Mexican lawsuits against gun companies
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the neighboring country of Mexico can file lawsuits against American gun companies.
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Case over allowing foreign countries to sue gunmakers reaches Supreme Court
A far-reaching case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court may allow foreign countries to sue American gun makers. As NBC 5’s Phil Prazan reports Mexico blames them for the country’s long-running violence.
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South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite broadly supported plea to cut sentence to life
South Carolina has put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection for the fatal shooting of a store clerk in Spartanburg.
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Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania voters who sent defective mail-in ballots to cast provisional ones in person
The Supreme Court on Friday handed a loss to Republicans by allowing Pennsylvania voters who sent mail-in ballots that were flagged as being potentially defective to submit a separate provisional in-person ballot.
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Thousands of ballots are at stake as the Supreme Court considers Pennsylvania voting rules
Mail ballots with issues that prevent them from being counted could number in the thousands in this election.
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Supreme Court rejects push to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from ballot in two swing states
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency appeal to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential ballot in two battleground states.
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Supreme Court appears likely to uphold Biden plan to crack down on ‘ghost gun' kits
The Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled it is likely to uphold the Biden administration’s move to regulate “ghost gun” kits that allow people to assemble deadly weapons at home while skirting existing regulations.
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Supreme Court will hear a challenge to ghost-gun regulation
The Supreme Court will hear a challenge Tuesday on the Biden administration’s proposed regulation on ghost guns, hard-to-trace firearms with a recent increase in crime involvement.
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The threat of election chaos looms as the Supreme Court returns to action
The new Supreme Court term starts Monday with new cases on the docket and the possibility that emergency election-related cases could arise in the coming weeks.
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Supreme Court nixes Biden administration appeal in Texas emergency abortion case
The justices kept in place a lower court order that said hospitals cannot be required to provide pregnancy terminations that would violate Texas law.
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Major cases before the Supreme Court deal with transgender rights, guns, nuclear waste and vapes
The Supreme Court’s new term is opening with a handful of important cases set to be heard and the possibility that the justices will be asked to get involved in election disputes.
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Supreme Court to review plans to store nuclear waste in West Texas
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to step into a fight over plans to store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico.
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Supreme Court to weigh a Texas death row case after halting execution
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a Texas man on death row who has long argued that DNA testing would help prove he didn’t kill an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery decades ago.
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What is court packing?
The term “court packing” is thrown around during election seasons, but what does it actually mean? Here’s what you need to know.