In Tuesday's Hoffman v. Westcott, the Court denied a stay of execution; Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson would have granted a stay, but didn't write ...

To her credit, however, Sotomayor took advantage of the occasion ... who attempted to defend these lawyers in his querulous dissent, joined by Justice Samuel Alito. (Justice Neil Gorsuch recused ...

The Supreme Court’s decision last year in Trump v. United States gave the president of the United States criminal immunity ...

The Trump appointee isn’t known for siding with death row prisoners. But the reason he gave for doing so in a Louisiana case ...

MAGA erupted against Justice Barrett after an unfavorable ruling over Trump's foreign aid spending clawback, yet experts say he originalism remains intact.

President Donald Trump has a new hobbyhorse: That his predecessor, President Joe Biden, didn’t legally grant pardons to ...

Kevin Burns says every day is the best day of his life. In his nearly 30 years on death row, he has been ordained as a pastor and started a church.

The Supreme Court on Monday morning released a long list of orders from the justices’ private conference on Feb. 21 – the first regularly scheduled conference in nearly a month. Over dissents or ...

Sotomayor noted that Oklahoma prosecutors not ... recused himself from the decision. In dissent, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito criticized the majority’s reliance on new evidence ...

High court actions mean an excessive force finding in a fatal 2017 San Jose police shooting stands, and double-jeopardy arguments for a man charged in the 1992 killing of Laurie Houts are directed ...

A divided Supreme Court declined to block the execution of Jessie Hoffman, who was put to death on Tuesday night in Louisiana. Four justices would have put Hoffman’s execution on hold – one short of ...