Nina Totenberg

The Supreme Court declared that states can bar criminal defendants from using the so-called insanity defense. It also refused to revive a filmmaker's video piracy lawsuit against North Carolina.

By a 6-to-3 vote, the court essentially allows consideration of mental status only at sentencing. Dissenters accuse the majority of abandoning centuries of Anglo-American law.

Concerns over the coronavirus outbreak prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to announce Monday that it was postponing oral arguments scheduled for March 23-25 and March 30-April 1.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's remarks about two Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices prompted a rare rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts. Similar remarks from President Trump did not.

Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare rebuke Wednesday of comments by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer about the abortion views of the Supreme Court's two Trump-appointed justices.

Lawyers for the Center for Reproductive Rights and Louisiana faced a hot bench Wednesday in a case critical to abortion rights in the U.S. But the Chief Justice - a key vote - did not tip his hand.

In a redo of an issue decided just four years ago, a newly constituted Supreme Court once again weighs abortion regulations.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was established to prevent the abuses that led to the 2008 financial crisis. Now the Trump administration is questioning its independent structure.

The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that seeks to make it easier for the president to fire heads of the nation's independent agencies. It would affect the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

In the short run, the fate of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hangs in the balance. In the long run, the future of independent regulatory agencies are at stake.

The Trump administration argued that U.S. courts have no role in deciding whether speedy deportations are constitutional. Will the Supreme Court agree?

The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday on the Trump administration's policy to speed deportations of people illegally in the country, which denies these individuals the right to go before a judge.

A sharply divided Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Mexican parents of a teenage boy shot and killed by a U.S. border patrol agent cannot sue the agent for damages.

Justices said the parents of a Mexican boy fatally shot by a border agent can't sue. They then looked at whether advising immigrants to stay in the country illegally violates the First Amendment.

The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that asked whether a law that criminalizes the act of encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial advantage is unconstitutional.

The chief justice, who is presiding over President Trump's Senate impeachment trial, has declined twice to ask a question from Sen. Rand Paul.

As the Senate impeachment trial continues, Chief Justice John Roberts is delicately navigating his role as the presiding officer.

At Wednesday's arguments, a majority of the justices suggested a major expansion of public funding for parochial schools.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case from Montana where state law bars taxpayer funding for religious private schools.

For the first time, the high court will rule on "no-aid" state constitutional provisions that conservative religious groups and school choice advocates have long sought to invalidate.