Author: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY

A major challenge to the use of race in college admissions was turned aside by a federal judge who upheld affirmative action at Harvard University.

The Supreme Court freedthe Trump administrationto implement its policy denying asylum to migrants at the southern border.

Supreme Court Associate Justice and liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburghas a message for friends and foes alike: She hopes to serve many more years.

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 Supreme Court ruled that even sex offenders deserve to have the reasons for their sentences determinedby a jury, not a judge.

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.

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

The court’s liberals show irritation at its more conservative majority –once in the middle of the night. Some conservatives chafe for faster change.