The Department of Justice has concluded that Yale University unlawfully discriminates against Asian and white applicants in its admissions process. 
June's landmark Supreme Court decision on employment discrimination and LGBT rights has far-reaching consequences for a host of cultural flash points reaching well beyond the workplace. 
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are pressing three Trump-appointees on a federal appeals court to explain why they haven't recused themselves from a politically charged case implicating the voting rights of 750,000 felons in Florida, a perennial swing state. 
The Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed a request from House Democrats to speed the process for restarting their legal fight to obtain President Donald Trump's financial records.
The man at the center of a landmark Supreme Court ruling that struck down onerous gun-control laws may be back in court to challenge Washington, D.C., and its handling of Second Amendment rights.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced Friday that she has been undergoing treatment for a recurrence of cancer since May, but has no plans to retire. 
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to block a Florida law that requires ex-felons to pay off fines and court-ordered restitution before their voting rights are restored, a decision that will keep thousands away from the polls in the perennial battleground state. Convicted child rapist and murderer Wesley Purkey was put to death on Thursday morning, over half a day after his execution was scheduled thanks to what one judge called the "procedural gamesmanship" of his legal counsel. 
D.C. District Court judge Tanya S. Chutkan on Wednesday halted the scheduled execution of a federal death row inmate, marking another instance of the Obama appointee stalling the Department of Justice's efforts to restart federal executions. 
White nationalist and child murderer Daniel Lewis Lee was put to death Tuesday morning, following a late-night wave of the legal dispute that has come to typify the push to restart the federal death penalty. 