Adam Liptak

The precedent said that “official harassment of the press” is forbidden by the First Amendment.

The chief justice faced down the president, forged unlikely coalitions and achieved long-sought goals.

The justices rejected some of President Trump’s signature initiatives, but delivered lasting, long-sought conservative wins.

Our chief legal affairs correspondent, Adam Liptak, explains how two Supreme Court rulings on the firings of independent regulators first expand the power of the president, and then carve out an ex...

Republicans had asked the court to strike down restrictions on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates.

In a rare dissent from the bench, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the Supreme Court undid “centuries of political practice,” and that the court concluded that the federal government had been acti...

The split mirrored one that has long divided Americans: how seriously to take the president’s loose, provocative and sometimes ugly remarks.

An unlikely trio of justices issued a slashing critique of plea bargains that included several references to orangutans.

Critics say it is unseemly for retired judges to trade on the prestige of their former positions.

Prosecutors would face substantial hurdles in potentially pursuing charges against Ms. Carroll, who twice won cases against Donald Trump, or the billionaire who helped pay her lawyers.

The nation’s founding document has a blind spot. Trump is making it visible.

Critics say the deal creates a “slush fund,” a term with a colorful maritime history.

The deal the president reached with his own subordinates relies on a mechanism created by Congress that legal experts had warned was subject to manipulation.

A long-shot emergency request to restore a voting map was the latest salvo in an all-out legal war over control of the House.

Since his early days as a lawyer and in his first years on the bench, the chief justice has worked to limit the force of the Voting Rights Act.

The majority said the law was a victim of its own success and no longer needed. Dissenters responded that Congress should make the call.

Their appearance seemed at odds with the chief justice’s oft-stated message that the court he leads avoids even the appearance of political splits.

Publication of a trove of confidential Supreme Court memos ignited debates in the legal academy.

Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power.

The New York Times obtained a trove of documents illuminating the inner workings of the court as it embraced a secretive track for making major decisions.

Confidential memos written by the justices shed light on how they came to issue emergency orders in cases about the scope of presidential power.