Few presidential powers are as consequential and enduring as the appointment of a judge to the Supreme Court of the United States. While the writers of the Constitution believed merit should be the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The nation’s first Black Supreme Court Justice was sworn in to the United States Supreme Court on Oct. 2, 1967. Thurgood Marshall was nominated by President Lyndon Johnson in ...

President Donald Trump claimed that a potential Supreme Court ruling against his power to apply tariffs would threaten national security.

A bedrock legal doctrine called "stare decisis," Latin for "to stand by things decided," calls upon courts to respect their prior precedents when resolving new cases on similar matters. A basic tenet ...

President Donald Trump defended his use of tariffs as critical to national security ahead of a landmark Supreme Court case, while warning the U.S. will not tolerate the mass killing of Christians in ...

WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court delivered setbacks to environmental interests in a series of recent rulings including by further restricting the Environmental Protection Agency's ...

The jury box in the criminal court at Centre St. in New York City The Supreme Court is set to decide in the next few weeks ...

Kamala Harris will be sworn in Wednesday as the next vice president of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, according to a Harris aide. Harris will make history as the first ...