John Roberts

Someday, perhaps, John Roberts will swear in a new president who doesn’t wish someone else was chief justice of the United States.

Chief Justice John Roberts remembered his colleague Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as tough, brave and honest during a private ceremony in the court’s Great Hall.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died, the Supreme Court said Friday.

Vice President Mike Pence joined a conservative chorus blasting Chief Justice John Roberts over recent Supreme Court decisions, calling the George W. Bush appointee a “disappointment to conservatives.”  President Donald Trump’s No. 2 said in an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network he has respect for the Supreme Court as an institution. But, he said that recent decisions on...

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Manhattan district attorney’s demand for President Donald Trump’s tax returns, voting 7-2 that a New York grand jury can subpoena the president’s financial documents. In a separate ruling, the justices kept a hold on Trump’s financial records that Congress has been seeking, sending the case to lower courts.

Chief Justice John Roberts spent a night in a hospital last month after he fell and injured his forehead, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said Tuesday night.

The Supreme Court has ruled that states can’t cut religious schools out of programs that send public money to private education

The biggest cases of the Supreme Court term so far have a surprising common thread.

Chief Justice John Roberts publicly chastised Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Wednesday over comments Schumer made outside the court as the justices were hearing a case on abortion rights. Schumer, D-N.Y., suggested that President Donald Trump’s court appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, “won’t know what hit” them if they vote to uphold abortion restrictions. He spoke during a rally on...

Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska will oppose calling more witnesses in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, all but dashing Democratic efforts to hear more testimony and boosting odds the Senate will vote to acquit Trump as early as Friday.

Senators directed questions at House impeachment managers and President Donald Trump’s defense team on Wednesday. Here are some of the notable exchanges.

Chief Justice John Roberts is the picture of judicial modesty at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial

Chief Justice John Roberts made the decision not to read one of Sen. Rand Paul’s, R–Ky., questions during Thursday’s impeachment trial in the Senate.

In a striking shift from President Donald Trump’s claims of “perfect” dealings with Ukraine, his defense asserted Wednesday at his Senate trial that a trade of U.S. military aid for political favors — even if proven — could not be grounds for his impeachment. Trump’s defenders relied on retired professor Alan Dershowitz, a member of their team, who told...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears ready to reinvigorate a Montana scholarship program and make it easier to use public money to pay for religious schooling

Chief Justice John Roberts drew little attention to himself in the beginning 12 hours of his first impeachment trial. But it was just before 1 a.m., as tempers on the floor had started to wear thin, that he reminded senators, House impeachment managers and President Donald Trump’s defense team who was in charge.

Chief Justice John Roberts took a moment during the first day of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial to remind both the House managers and White House legal team about the proper way to behave in front of the United States Senate.

Federal judges are taking up the challenge to educate Americans about how their government works at a time when false information can spread instantaneously on social media, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote Tuesday in his annual year-end report. With the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump looming, Roberts, who will preside over the trial in the Senate, focused on the…

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was absent on Wednesday for courtroom argument in two cases. Chief Justice John Roberts announced that Ginsburg was “indisposed due to illness,” a statement similar to the one he made on the first day of the term, Oct. 7, when Justice Clarence Thomas was absent with what a court official said was the flu....

Sharply at odds with liberal justices, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to abolish protections that permit 660,000 immigrants to work in the U.S., free from the threat of deportation. That outcome would “destroy lives,” declared Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one the court’s liberals who repeatedly suggested the administration has not adequately justified its...