Four candidates, including two military attorneys, a veteran city court prosecutor and a grizzled defense lawyer have qualified to run for a vacant district court judge's seat in East Baton Rouge ...

The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport a group of migrants with criminal records held at a U.S. base in Djibouti; the administration says they'll be sent to South ...

In United States v Skrmetti, the court rejected a challenge to Tennessee’s law banning puberty-blockers and hormone therapy for transgender teenagers, finding it is not a sex-based ...

The court rejected the administration’s efforts to use the “212 (f)” proclamation, which falsely cited an “invasion” as justification to deny asylum protections expressly granted by Congress and ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear two cases involving highly charged political speech connected to public schools. One involved a teacher who was dismissed over social media posts ...

The court ruled that universal injunctions issued by lower courts likely exceed the authority Congress has granted them.

The Supreme Court delivered a major decision Friday that limits federal judges’ power to block the president’s agenda nationwide. Stemming from a case over Trump’s order on birthright ...

Here's what to know about birthright citizenship, the Supreme Court's ruling and what happens next.

The Supreme Court releases opinion on birthright citizenship and other cases. NPR's Steve Inskeep, Carrie Johnson, and Nina Totenberg analyze the decisions. The United States Supreme Court, last ...

The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in curbing nationwide injunctions granted against his birthright citizenship order, in a 6-3 ruling with the court’s Republican appointees ...

The Supreme Court curtailed the power of district courts to issue “universal injunctions” in a decision Friday.

The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s request to partially pause rulings by three federal judges that had blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright ...