Author: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY

The action represents a loss for gun control proponents, who hoped the court would dismiss the case once New York lawmakers removed the restrictions.

The justices agreed to consider state restrictions on abortion despite their reluctance to become a partisan target.

John Paul Stevens, the second oldest and third longest-serving Supreme Court justice, was a Republican president’s nominee but led the liberal wing.

The health care law has helped insure 20 million people since 2010 and survived two Supreme Court battles in 2012 and 2015, but it’s threatened again.

The Trump administration has begun printing 2020 census questionnaires without a citizenship question that it has long fought to include.

The action by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit may not affect the Supreme Court, which is due to rule on the issue later this week.

Faced with a clothing line called FUCT, the justices struck down federal bans against granting trademark protection for immoral or scandalous material

A federal law requiring longer prison sentences for using a gun during a “crime of violence” is unconstitutionally vague, the Supreme Court ruled.

The Supreme Court agreed to decide if the nation’s largest cable TV company discriminated againstan African-American media mogul.

The Supreme Court refused to decide if the Second Amendment protects gun silencers such as one used in last month’s deadly Virginia Beach shooting.