Ruth Bader Ginsburg honored by USPS with new postage stamp

The U.S. Postal Service is honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as "an icon of American culture" with a stamp in the new year.

80-year-old arrested for bringing guns near Capitol Hill

An 80-year-old Georgia man was arrested Wednesday after U.S. Capitol Police found a suspicious van parked illegally blocks away from the Supreme Court Building.

US Supreme Court rejects appeal to give American Samoans citizenship

American Samoa is the only unincorporated territory of the United States where the inhabitants are not American citizens at birth.

Supreme Court to hear case that could raise price of bacon, other pork products

The case involves California's Prop 12, which says that pork sold in the state needs to come from pigs whose mothers were raised with at least 24 square feet of space.

Supreme Court welcomes the public again, and a new justice

The Supreme Court's new term kicked off Monday, and it was the first official day on the bench for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. 

Supreme Court rejects bump stock ban cases

The Supreme Court says it won't take up two cases that involved challenges to a ban enacted during the Trump administration on bump stocks, the gun attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns.

Supreme Court welcomes the public again, and new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Monday is the first time new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court’s first Black female justice, will participate in arguments. It's also the first time the public will be able to attend since March 2020.

Supreme Court back in session Monday with new justice and top cases

Already the court has said it will decide cases on a range of major issues including affirmative action, voting rights and the rights of LGBTQ people.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to make Supreme Court debut in brief ceremony Friday

The ceremony includes a reading of the proclamation appointing Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Jackson will also repeat the oath she took when she formally joined the court in June, following the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer.

Biden, Harris to attend Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's investiture ceremony

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed in April on a 53-47 vote in the Senate, with three Republican senators joining all Democrats to support her.

Supreme Court leaker still appears to be a mystery: Breyer

Retired Justice Stephen Breyer, speaking with CNN anchor Chris Wallace, said he doesn't believe the person who leaked a draft court opinion on abortion rights has been identified.

Alabama halts execution because of time, IV access concerns

Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Hamm said the state halted the scheduled execution of Alan Miller after they determined they could not get the lethal injection underway before a midnight deadline.

Virginia Thomas agrees to interview with Jan. 6 panel

Conservative activist Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has agreed to participate in a voluntary interview with the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, her lawyer said Wednesday. 

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg auction brings in nearly $517K

The piece was part of a collection of about 75 items of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s that were sold to benefit charity.

Supreme Court rulings protecting same-sex relationships could face challenge

Justice Clarence Thomas said that the Supreme Court should reconsider rulings that legalized same-sex marriage and protected same-sex relationships and contraception in his concurring opinion in favor of Mississippi in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health. This decision overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion ruling which legalized abortion nationwide. 

After Supreme Court ruling, it's open season on US gun laws

Court battles over the ruling come as the Biden administration and police struggle to stop a rise in violent crime and mass shootings, including several deadly shootings involving individuals who bought their guns legally.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas cancels plans to teach at GWU law school this fall

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has backed out of teaching a seminar at George Washington University's law school in the nation's capital, following student protests and the university's statement of support for the conservative justice's role on campus.