The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon turned down a request from an Alabama inmate to block his execution, which is ...

Get live updates and the latest news NYC mayor, N.J., Va. elections notch Democrat wins and government shutdown becomes longest ever.

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Social Security Administration is warning seniors about a new scam that ...

"This Court thus turns its back on Boyd and on the Eighth Amendment’s guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment," the ...

In doing so, Sotomayor contended, it ignored both its own precedents and the clear violation of Crawford’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel. As she put it, “The right to direct the goals of one’s ...

Official Portrait of Justice Sonia Sotomayor Credit: U.S. Supreme Court/Steve Petteway U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is scheduled to speak at the University of Vermont later this month.

Justices question whether Trump has the power to impose tariffs on most imports. The questions reveal much about where they ...

In a striking dissent, the Supreme Court’s Democratic appointees ask readers to imagine themselves suffocating.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the court is allowing “extraordinary misconduct to stand” after justices declined to take up a case of a Georgia man named Stacey Humphreys, who has ...

The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices laid out a remarkable critique of nitrogen hypoxia executions Thursday, asserting that the new form of capital punishment causes “psychological terror” and ...

As a U.S. Supreme Court justice whose views of late are often heard in dissenting opinions, Sonia Sotomayor is accustomed to fighting for lost causes. The third woman and first Hispanic person on the ...