The Supreme Court's term includes the Suncor case, which addresses whether state and local communities can sue over climate change

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In the case Trump v. Mazars, Congress issued subpoenas to obtain President Donald Trump's financial records from Deutsche Bank and Mazars accounting firm

In Trump v. Mazars, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress has constitutional authority to issue subpoenas to obtain documents related to the President

In Trump v. Mazars, the Supreme Court ruled that a congressional subpoena targeting the President's records must demonstrate a clear legislative purpose

In Trump v. Mazars, the Supreme Court held that congressional subpoenas for presidential materials must be narrowly tailored to advance an explicit legislative purpose

The United States Supreme Court has recognized that judicial review of congressional impeachment rules and procedures is limited by non-justiciability doctrines

On August 31, 2026, the United States Supreme Court granted an emergency stay regarding plaintiffs' standing in litigation contesting Donald Trump's White House ballroom expansion project

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh joined Chief Justice John Roberts's majority opinion in Trump v. Mazars

Chief Justice John Roberts authored the Supreme Court majority opinion in Trump v. Mazars

The National Environmental Policy Act and Clean Water Act have been utilized in litigation to delay or block energy and infrastructure projects

The United States Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 to allow the Trump administration to continue border wall construction in West Texas

The proposed SCOTUS Act would establish a panel of the 13 chief judges of the federal circuit courts or their designees to determine which cases the Supreme Court hears

A circuit split among the federal circuit courts of appeals is a primary criterion for the United States Supreme Court to grant certiorari

Representative Jamie Raskin introduced the SCOTUS Act to reform the case selection process for the Supreme Court

The first Trump presidential administration appealed 34 federal district court rulings to the Supreme Court and secured reversals in 25 of those cases

In Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the Supreme Court affirmed the separate-but-equal doctrine, legally entrenching Jim Crow segregation

In Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court struck down Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, effectively incapacitating Section 5 preclearance enforcement

Representative Jamie Raskin proposed expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices to provide one justice for each of the 13 federal judicial circuits

In Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Supreme Court denied legal citizenship to Black Americans and upheld the institution of chattel slavery

The United States Supreme Court is the only court among the 51 supreme courts in the United States that lacks a binding code of judicial ethics

In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court rescheduled an argued Voting Rights Act challenge and reframed the question presented into a constitutional issue for a subsequent term