Donald Trump is back in office and already flexing executive authority in unprecedented ways. NPR hears analysis from Bowdoin University's Andrew Rudalevige, who studies presidential power.

Fourteen religious sect members were found guilty of the manslaughter of a diabetic girl after denying her insulin, relying ...

A court sketch of Jason Richard Struhs (left), the father of eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs who died from untreated diabetes ...

Canadian military police tampered with evidence, showed bias and acted beyond the scope of their jurisdiction during an ...

Some Georgia Democrats say they're playing catch-up after Republicans used immigration concerns to power electoral gains in November.

The appointment of Maria Elena Cruz broadens the racial, geographic and political diversity of the seven-member, ...

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether states may reject religious charter schools from receiving public funding, agreeing to hear arguments in an appeal out of Oklahoma involving the ...

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma. The justices said ...

President Trump’s Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to freeze four pending cases implicating the environment or student debt as the new administration considers reversing the ...

The Minnesota Supreme Court could rule any day in a pair of cases that could uproot the power structure in the state House. Democrats had, until recently, controlled the entire state government.

His decree proposing to end the constitutional promise of birthright citizenship contradicts the plain words of the 14th Amendment and would reverse an 1898 Supreme Court milestone. That case ...

Among other things, it seeks to overturn Supreme Court precedents that place legal limits on executions. That section of the order says: Seeking The Overruling of Supreme Court Precedents That ...