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The Supreme Court ended its term with historic rulings regarding administrative law and how the government operates. Here’s a roundup of the most important cases – and why they matter.
Norman Eisen cast doubt that the Supreme Court's immunity ruling would substantially impact his New York and Georgia cases.
A Supreme Court opinion giving broad immunity to former President Donald Trump matters in the current presidential race
Ann, are celebrating that he and his fellow right-wing Supreme Court justices have made a king of our presidents, just when it seems more likely that Donald Trump could be restored to the throne. Also,
The court’s conservative majority, ruled that the president has at least presumptive immunity for all official acts.
Donald Trump and the conservative interests that helped him reshape the Supreme Court got most of what they wanted this term, from substantial help for Trump’s political and legal prospects to sharp b
The Supreme Court made clear that its bombshell decision granting broad immunity to Donald Trump was intended in part to empower future presidents to make “energetic” and “vigorous” decisions without fear of criminal prosecution.
Justice Department officials who served under Trump during his first term fear that the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling makes it easier for him to use the DOJ against his enemies if he is re-elected president.
The Supreme Court ruled that former president Donald Trump is immune from prosecution for his “official acts” in office. Here’s what to know about the decision.
Before the ink was dry on the Supreme Court’s extreme presidential immunity opinion, former President Donald Trump launched a Hail Mary to derail state cases — but it won’t work, writes Norman Eisen.
Stephen King has called out three conservative Supreme Court Justices for allegedly considering former President Donald Trump to be "above the law" in a viral social media post. King, a frequent Trump critic and the author of classic horror novels like It and The Shining,
Many of the victims and the families of those who were attacked in the Jan. 6, 2021, siege of the Capitol are sharing their frustration and anger with the Supreme Court.
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is expected to use Monday’s historic Supreme Court decision granting him partial presidential immunity to attack the evidence against him in all four of his criminal cases,
The opinion could hamstring all four criminal cases Trump has faced, legal experts say, leaving prosecutors in several — if not all of them — unable to proceed.
The Biden administration is telling emergency room doctors they must perform emergency abortions when necessary to save a pregnant woman's health.
The president's reelection campaign is going on the offensive as he tries to recover from last week's disastrous debate against Donald Trump.
The court's extension of presidential immunity to official acts, no matter how personal the charged conduct, gave Trump a lifeline in lieu of a sentence.
The U.S. Supreme Court's divisions deepened over its nine-month term that culminated this week with a ruling powered by its 6-3 conservative majority granting former President Donald Trump substantial criminal immunity for actions taken in office.
The Biden campaign is releasing a new television ad in battleground states seizing on the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, leveling pointed criticism towards the nation’s highest court and former President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump wants to have the White House takeover the Justice Department's investigations and the Supreme Court immunity decision supports that.
The Supreme Court ended its term with a flurry of massive decisions on guns, abortion, federal regulatory power and the prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
The US Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents have some immunity from criminal charges over official conduct sets up a high-stakes “mini trial” later this summer over Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
One recent ruling from the high court could be the most significant decision in decades. It's probably not the one you're thinking of.
Monday’s ruling by the Supreme Court in Donald Trump's immunity case means he cannot be held fully accountable for allegedly interfering in the 2020 election.
This disgraceful decision by the MAGA Supreme Court—which is comprised of three justices appointed by Mr. Trump himself—enables the former President to weaken our democracy by breaking the law,” the Democratic Senate leader said.
With decisions on everything from civil rights and the environment to guns and religious freedoms, the US Supreme Court has always played a powerful role in American life. But that role has been changing in some ways,
Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.
The Supreme Court's decision to grant former President Donald Trump absolute immunity for some of his conduct in seeking to overturn the 2020 election has attracted a chorus of criticism from those who saw it as another sign of conservative justices abandoning their own judicial philosophy.
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on presidential immunity tossed out one plank of the federal criminal case involving former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss and could exclude other aspects of the case,
Donald Trump and the conservative interests that helped him reshape the Supreme Court got most of what they wanted this term, from substantial help for Trump's political and legal prospects to sharp blows against the administrative state they revile.
Here's what the Supreme Court's ruling in the Trump immunity case means for the former President's four criminal cases.
A s the legal community continues to dissect the Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision, I find myself among those who are alarmed by it. In contrast to the many legal sch
The conservative justices granted presidents broad protection for official acts. That appears to include much of the conduct in the federal Jan. 6 indictment.
Former U.S. attorney Harry Litman joins Yamiche Alcindor to give his reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision on Donald Trump’s immunity decision and speculates on how Donald Trump may use this newfound protection if he is re-elected.
We tell children — or at least we used to — that actions have consequences. What goes around comes around. Watch your behavior. You’ll answer for it someday. Donald Trump is the living, lying contradiction of that.
The Supreme Court immunity ruling puts Trump in a favorable position ahead of the election in November.
Former President Trump is turning to his social media platform to declare “total exoneration” after the Supreme Court ruled presidents have broad immunity.
Blockbuster decisions by the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed supermajority — expanding presidential authority while undercutting that of executive branch agencies — were no contradiction.
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The White House and Democrats are weighing options to respond to the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling. Former Investigative Counsel for the House January 6th Committee Marcus Childress and NBC News' Sahil Kapur join Ryan Nobles to discuss.
The bench is currently divided between three liberals, three arch-conservatives, and three centrist conservatives, leading to shifting alliances —- and an opportunity for the next president.
The rulings are likely to open the door to legal challenges and produce differing interpretations by lower courts of the same laws.
For Donald F. McGahn II, the former White House counsel, and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, sweeping anti-regulatory rulings are the big payoff of their drive to reshape the federal courts.
Just as the Supreme Court was heading into its final arguments of what would become a dramatic and historic term, Justice Amy Coney Barrett issued a plea to her warring colleagues.