The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a California policy protecting the privacy of transgender students in K-12 schools, in a ruling hailed as a victory for parental rights by a group of parents near San Diego.
The Supreme Court has reinstated parents’ right to be informed of their child’s gender identity at school, leaving California schools in legal limbo and advocates concerned for the safety of transgender students.
The US Supreme Court has blocked California from enforcing a state law that prohibited public schools from notifying parents if a child expresses gender nonconformity or seeks to change their name or pronouns at school.
The ACLU and several other organizations have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to declare geofence warrants unconstitutional, arguing that the increasingly used investigative tool violates the Fourth Amendment and amounts to a sweeping digital dragnet.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal challenging a Florida Supreme Court ruling in which a Florida man on death row argued that the state’s lethal injection protocol risked a botched execution, and the man was executed later that day.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta co-led a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, with the case now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on March 31 in the long-running Mississippi case of Pitchford v. Cain to determine whether the accused was improperly denied the right to challenge alleged racial discrimination in jury selection.
A coalition of prosecutors, law enforcement leaders and former judges has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, urging it to take a firmer stand against racial discrimination in jury selection and warning that weak enforcement of constitutional safeguards threatens the legitimacy of the justice system nationwide.
Ronald Heath was executed by the State of Florida for the 1989 murder of Michael Sheridan, marking the state’s first execution of 2026, despite his attorneys arguing that Florida corrections officials had mismanaged the state’s death penalty protocols and that jurors did not recommend the death penalty unanimously.
The UCLA study found that during the second Trump administration, immigration detention policies were expanded and disproportionately targeted noncriminal, law-abiding Latinos, resulting in a sharp increase in deaths in custody and a higher risk of out-of-state relocation for detainees.
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in Trump v. Cook, a case that could reshape the balance of power between the presidency and independent federal agencies, with major implications for the Federal Reserve and the broader economy.
The Supreme Court’s decision in Bowe v. United States opens a path for federal prisoners to challenge unlawful convictions and sentences, as lower courts had previously closed, by allowing them to seek Supreme Court review when permission to file post-conviction motions is denied.
The Trump administration has withdrawn its request to maintain federal control over the California National Guard, returning command and control to Gov. Gavin Newsom, following a court ruling that the federalization of the National Guard was illegal.
Former President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 federal death row prisoners, but newly inaugurated President Trump issued an executive order encouraging state and local prosecutors to pursue new charges against those same prisoners, reopening the possibility of capital punishment in state courts.
The U.S. Supreme Court will review the death sentence of Terry Pitchford in a case that could clarify how rigorously courts must enforce constitutional protections against racial discrimination in jury selection.
A coalition of legal and civil rights organizations has filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging it to prevent plea agreements from blocking appeals of unconstitutional sentences, arguing that such waivers should not be allowed to insulate unlawful sentences from judicial review.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to California’s civil rights law brought by a Bakersfield bakery, leaving intact a state appellate court decision that reinforced protections for same-sex couples seeking equal service at businesses open to the public.
The U.S. Supreme Court has extended the date of review on President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship to Dec. 5, 2025, with multiple federal lawsuits having temporarily blocked the order from being enforced.
The ACLU and other civil liberties groups are urging the Supreme Court to block President Trump’s attempt to deploy military troops into Chicago, arguing that the move violates long-standing limits on the use of military force against civilians and threatens First Amendment rights.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to stay the execution of Anthony Boyd, who was put to death in Alabama using nitrogen gas, calling it “torturous suffocation” and a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment.