Sonia Sotomayor
A Missouri man who abducted and beat a 6-year-old girl to death at an abandoned factory two decades ago has been executed.
NEW YORK (AP) — A health care executive who was convicted of manslaughter for fatally drugging her 8-year-old developmentally disabled son has died by suicide, authorities said.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor returned Thursday to the Bronx community where she grew up to see the unveiling of her bronze statue at a shopping center in the heart of the community.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday denied an appeal from a New York Police Department detective who asked for an emergency injunction to keep the city from firing him over its mandate that municipal employees be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Two of the Supreme Court justices who disagree most often on the outcomes of cases say they both still try hard to persuade each other, and sometimes succeed.
The Supreme Court won’t allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that prioritizes deportation of people in the U.S. illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.
The nine justices of the Supreme Court made clear in their landmark ruling Friday whether they stand on abortion. The conservative majority overturned the Roe v.
The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously for an American woman who is involved in a bitter international custody dispute with her Italian husband over their young son.
The Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders.
Supreme Court financial disclosures reveal that the justices took in $800,000 in book royalties last year, a lucrative supplement to their judicial salaries.
A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints.
The Supreme Court has ruled along ideological lines against two Arizona death row inmates who had argued that their lawyers did a poor job representing them in state court.
The Supreme Court has upheld the differential treatment of residents of Puerto Rico, ruling that Congress was within its power to exclude them from a benefits program that’s available in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The Supreme Court is declining to wade into a lawsuit filed by four New York City public school employees over a policy that they be vaccinated against COVID-19.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Tuesday that even though her views often differ from her colleagues’, she realizes “there’s good in every one of them.”
The Supreme Court has ruled that Kentucky’s Republican attorney general may continue defending a restriction on abortion rights that had been struck down by lower courts.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is out with a new children’s book that challenges kids to ask how they can help at home and in their communities.
Two Supreme Court justices say a media report they were at odds over the wearing of masks during the surge in coronavirus cases is false.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears skeptical of the Biden administration’s authority to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation’s large employers.
The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal over whether the public should have access to opinions of the secretive court that reviews bulk email collection, warrantless internet searches and other government surveillance programs.
The Supreme Court is allowing the Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in place for now, but has agreed to hear arguments in the case on Nov. 1.
Get tested. Wear a mask. Don’t get too close. Not your typical court orders, but that was the word from the Supreme Court to lawyers and reporters who returned to the high court this week for the first in-person arguments in more than a year and a half.
NEW YORK (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday denied an emergency appeal from a group of teachers to block New York City’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public school teachers and other staff from going into effect.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor is encouraging citizens to work to change laws they may disagree with, such as a recent Texas law that limits access to abortions.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is continuing her successful side career as an author with a picture book about giving to others.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an Alabama inmate whose lawyers argued that his trial counsel should have done more to try to show he is intellectually disabled and therefore he should be spared a death sentence.
The Supreme Court, for now, is leaving it up Congress to decide whether to change the requirement that only men must register for the draft.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says Americans should think critically about how they want police to interact with citizens.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered her first Supreme Court majority opinion Thursday, ruling against an environmental group that had sought access to government records.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The lawyer who killed a federal judge’s son and seriously wounded her husband at their New Jersey home last summer also had been tracking Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the judge said in a television interview.
Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th president of the United States, declaring that “democracy has prevailed.”