Author: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY

The Supreme Court blocked the execution of a Texas prisoner because he was not allowed to have his Buddhist spiritual advisor in the execution chamber.

The Supreme Court refused Thursday to upend President Donald Trump’s ban on bump stocks, a device that allows rifles to mimicautomatic weapons.

The drawing of election districts to benefit onepolitical party divided the Supreme Court, a badsign for opponents of partisan gerrymandering.

A cottage industry of academics and entrepreneurs wants to convince Supreme Court justices that partisan gerrymandering has gone too far.

The extreme partisanship gripping U.S. politics could be reduced bytwo cases coming to the Supreme Court that will test Chief Justice John Roberts.

The Supreme Court’s senior justice, who seldom speaks during oral argument, broke a three-year silence to ask questions in a race discrimination case.

After six trials for the same crime, Curtis Flowers from Mississippi reached the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of winning another chance.

The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a victory by making it easier to detain noncitizens with criminal records.

The judges who will hear legal challenges to President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency run the political gamut from left to right.

The Supreme Court wrestled with how to maintain a constitutional distance between church and state while allowing a 40-foot cross on government land.