Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has done his best to keep a low profile in the 13 months since one of the most polarizing Senate confirmation fights in U.S. history. From the bench, his questions have been evenhanded and his ...

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WASHINGTON – To set the boundaries of the landmark Clean Water Act, the Supreme Court was asked Wednesday to draw lessons from grocery shopping and spiking a punch bowl, and reminded of an Agatha Christie novel in which all the ...

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WASHINGTON – Break out the umpire trope one more time: If Chief Justice John Roberts is called upon to preside over a Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, it will be the most high-profile and likely unwelcome test of ...

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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday seemed prepared to say it was reasonable for police to pull over a vehicle registered to someone with a suspended driver license even if officers don’t know for sure who is driving. The ...

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FAIRBANKS, Alaska – Moose hunter John Sturgeon serves as both inspiration and warning for anyone who has ever gotten worked up over a perceived injustice and vowed to fight it “all the way to the Supreme Court.” An inspiration because ...

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A Supreme Court dispute involving a coral reef off Hawaii could impose major limits on the U.S. Clean Water Act, giving mines and coal-fired power plants what environmental advocates say would be a new license to pollute. The justices are ...

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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Friday said it will consider whether the structure of the watchdog Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by Congress in 2010 is unconstitutional, something the Trump administration and even the bureau’s director say they now ...

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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court said Friday it will review a lower court decision that hinders the Trump administration’s desire to more quickly deport undocumented immigrants after their requests for asylum have been denied. The case concerns “expedited removal,” a ...

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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court seemed divided Wednesday on whether Lee Boyd Malvo, the 17-year-old Beltway Sniper whose deadly 2002 shooting spree terrorized the Washington region, deserves a resentencing hearing because his youth was not weighed before he was sentenced ...

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WASHINGTON – The more they heard, the more hesitant Supreme Court justices seemed to be Tuesday about disrupting the work of the board Congress put in place to fix Puerto Rico’s catastrophic economic problems. If the hundreds of billions of ...

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One evening in February 2002, a 21-year-old single mother named Keenya Cook was making dinner and taking care of her 6-month-old daughter when the doorbell rang at her Tacoma, Washington, home. When Cook answered, 16-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo shot her ...

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Although she was considered one of her accounting firm’s top management consultants, much of the company’s leadership was not particularly fond of Ann Hopkins in 1982. The overwhelmingly male management at accounting firm Price Waterhouse – now PwC – had ...

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