Roberts Court

Salim Hamdan, once a driver for Osama bin Laden, faced trial by military commission established by executive order. Justice Steven...

Washington DC banned handgun possession and required trigger locks on lawfully owned guns. Dick Heller, a security guard, challeng...

Citizens United, a nonprofit corporation, wanted to air a film critical of Hillary Clinton near the 2008 primaries. Justice Kenned...

Chicago's handgun ban mirrored the DC law struck in Heller. Justice Alito, for a 5-4 majority, held that the right to keep and bea...

Twenty-six states challenged the Affordable Care Act. Chief Justice Roberts, writing in part for a majority, held that the mandate...

Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act required jurisdictions with histories of discrimination, mostly in the South, to obtain fe...

Officers searched arrestees' phones incident to arrest, uncovering photos and contacts used as evidence. Chief Justice Roberts, fo...

Same-sex couples from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee challenged marriage bans after United States v. Windsor struck the f...

Jack Phillips refused to design a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, citing religious conviction, and was found to have violated ...

The FBI obtained 127 days of Timothy Carpenter's cell site location information without a warrant under a stored communications st...

Gerald Bostock was fired for joining a gay softball league, and other plaintiffs were fired for being transgender. Justice Gorsuch...

Jimcy McGirt was convicted in Oklahoma court for crimes on land the Creek Nation claimed under nineteenth-century treaties. Justic...

Mississippi banned most abortions after fifteen weeks, defending the law by attacking the viability rule. Justice Alito, for a maj...

New York required proper cause for a concealed carry license. Justice Thomas, for a 6-3 majority, held that the Second Amendment e...

The Obama-era Clean Power Plan set systemwide emission caps that would shift generation from coal to cleaner sources. Chief Justic...

North Carolina legislators argued that the Elections Clause makes state legislatures virtually unconstrained by state courts when ...

Students for Fair Admissions challenged admissions programs considering race at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Chie...

Herring fishermen challenged a rule requiring them to fund at-sea monitors, and the case became the vehicle for reconsidering Chev...

The case arose from the federal prosecution of Donald Trump for efforts to overturn the 2020 election. On July 1, 2024, Chief Just...