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Harris Sharpens Her Attacks on Trump
The vice president told a crowd of roughly 20,000 in Dallas that former President Donald J. Trump had said he would terminate the Constitution in a second term.
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs
The vice president told a crowd of roughly 20,000 in Dallas that former President Donald J. Trump had said he would terminate the Constitution in a second term.
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs
For decades, the court has been reluctant to allow lawsuits against individual federal officials. Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-nemesis believes he has found an exception.
By Ben Protess and Maggie Haberman
Impeachment has no realistic chance of advancing in the Republican-controlled House, but it speaks to a motivating issue for Democrats: the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority.
By Maggie Astor
The marshal was sitting in an unmarked federal vehicle near the Supreme Court justice’s home when a man approached the vehicle and pointed a handgun at him through the driver’s side window.
By Minho Kim and Glenn Thrush
The senators said the Supreme Court justice’s failure to disclose lavish gifts and luxury travel showed a “willful pattern of disregard for ethics laws.”
By Maya C. Miller
Legal maneuverings followed a Supreme Court ruling last month that denied the Sackler family immunity from liability over its role in the opioid crisis.
By Jan Hoffman
Readers lament and support the president’s refusal to heed calls to step aside. Also: Televised therapy; Supreme Court rulings.
The Supreme Court decision granting former presidents broad protection from prosecution kicked to the trial court key rulings about how much of Donald Trump’s indictment on election charges can stand.
By Alan Feuer
He is gravitating toward the extreme fringes of the conservative legal world.
By Jay Willis
The junior member of the court’s six-justice conservative supermajority often questioned its approach and wrote important dissents joined by liberal justices.
By Adam Liptak
Some of the rulings that came before the justices’ decision on presidential immunity could prove to have just as big an impact.
By Michael Barbaro, Adam Liptak, Rikki Novetsky, Shannon M. Lin, Rob Szypko, Devon Taylor, Lisa Chow, Dan Powell, Sophia Lanman and Chris Wood
After President Biden’s rocky answer on abortion at the debate, his campaign has ramped up its messaging on Donald Trump’s role in overturning Roe v. Wade and his policy stances.
By Simon J. Levien
Justice Amy Coney Barrett has found her voice.
By Stephen I. Vladeck
In both Trump cases the liberal dissenters are more originalist than the conservative majority.
By David French
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The postponement was likely to cause only minor delays to the case, which has already slowed to a crawl with Judge Aileen Cannon’s previous decisions.
By Alan Feuer
The American republic feels fragile.
By Tressie McMillan Cottom
The former president’s lawyers asked to freeze nearly all proceedings while they sort out whether the Supreme Court decision applies to charges focused on actions after he left the White House.
By Alan Feuer
Most of the court’s decisions were principled and sound — most, but unfortunately not all.
By William Baude
Aunque los gobernantes gozan de inmunidad limitada mientras ocupan el cargo en países como Japón y Australia, no existe nada similar a las amplias protecciones que la corte parece haber concedido en su fallo.
By Motoko Rich
El tribunal declaró que los expresidentes tienen inmunidad por sus acciones oficiales. Este fallo revela cómo los jueces conservadores ven el poder del líder de la nación.
By Charlie Savage
Impeachments, bankruptcies, fraud judgments, felonies. Nothing sticks. Nothing matters.
By Frank Bruni
Christian nationalists aim to impose their beliefs on others.
By Pamela Paul
Blockbuster decisions by the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed supermajority — expanding one kind of executive branch authority while undercutting another — were no contradiction.
By Charlie Savage
The Supreme Court has had a volatile term, taking on a stunning array of major disputes and assuming a commanding role in shaping American society and democracy. Adam Liptak and Abbie VanSickle, supreme court reporters at The New York Times, explain how a season of blockbuster cases defined the court.
By Adam Liptak, Abbie VanSickle, Farah Otero-Amad, Gabriel Blanco, Ben Laffin and James Surdam
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Legal experts say the U.S. Supreme Court ruling pushes past most of the norms in effect among American allies, adding more concern about the reliability of U.S. power.
By Motoko Rich
The court dismisses an abortion case it now says it should never have accepted, opening a window on internal tensions.
By Linda Greenhouse
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority largely embraced Donald Trump’s dark view of tit-for-tat partisan prosecutions while liberals cited the prospect of power unchecked by legal accountability.
By Alan Feuer
For Donald F. McGahn II, the former White House counsel, and Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, sweeping anti-regulatory rulings are the big payoff of their drive to reshape the federal courts.
By Carl Hulse
Más allá de Donald Trump, la decisión se suma a la expansión aparentemente unidireccional de la autoridad ejecutiva.
By Charlie Savage
Analistas y observadores ya preveían, a grandes rasgos, la decisión que establece que los presidentes merecen protección considerable por sus actos oficiales. Trump lo proclamó como una victoria.
By Maggie Haberman
Determining which of the alleged acts that Donald Trump is being prosecuted for in the state were official conduct, and which were not, could delay the case for months.
By Danny Hakim
Three justices dissented in the case, which could affect more than two dozen youths sentenced to die in prison.
By Adam Liptak
The Supreme Court’s decision to grant presidents immunity from prosecution over official actions is an extraordinary expansion of executive power. Charlie Savage, a reporter for The New York Times, analyzes the ruling by the court’s conservative majority, its long-term implications, and the three liberal justices’ vehement dissent.
By Nikolay Nikolov, Karen Hanley, Charlie Savage and James Surdam
Lawyers and other readers discuss the landmark Supreme Court decision. Also: A ruling on corruption; doctors and abortion bans; religion in public schools.
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The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are at least 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds.
By Adam Liptak
The court, which issued two major decisions on guns in the term that ended Monday, does not seem ready to return to the subject.
By Adam Liptak
Liberal outlets criticized the ruling as a biased move from a conservative Supreme Court. Conservative commentators admonished Democrats for opposing it.
By Santul Nerkar
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers want to argue that a Supreme Court decision giving presidents immunity for official acts should void his felony conviction for covering up hush money paid to a porn star.
By Ben Protess, William K. Rashbaum, Kate Christobek and Wesley Parnell
Amid signs of dysfunction and disarray, Chief Justice John Roberts reasserted his authority, while the influence of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito waned.
By Adam Liptak and Alicia Parlapiano
What the Supreme Court’s ruling means for Donald Trump, and how it may reshape presidential power for years to come.
By German Lopez
What the Supreme Court decision means for the former president, and for the presidency itself.
By Michael Barbaro, Adam Liptak, Olivia Natt, Diana Nguyen, Patricia Willens, Lisa Chow, Elisheba Ittoop, Diane Wong and Chris Wood
Presidential immunity never existed in America. Until now.
By Jesse Wegman and Derek Arthur
The Nixonian theory of presidential power is now enshrined as constitutional law.
By Jamelle Bouie
It is increasingly clear that this court sees itself as something other than a participant in our democratic system.
By Kate Shaw
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Big Tech is increasingly safe from government regulation.
By Tim Wu
El principio básico de que los presidentes no están por encima de la ley se ha dejado de lado, lo que se traduce en un paso hacia la monarquía
By El Comité Editorial
Beyond Donald J. Trump, the decision adds to the seemingly one-way ratchet of executive authority.
By Charlie Savage
President Biden spoke after the Supreme Court’s ruling that former President Donald J. Trump is entitled to substantial immunity from prosecution on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election.
By The New York Times
In his concurrence to the immunity decision, the justice questioned whether there was a legal basis for naming the special counsel — a topic also being explored by the judge in the documents case.
By Alan Feuer
The decision most likely delays Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 case past the election, and if he wins in November, people close to him expect the Justice Department to drop the charges.
By Maggie Haberman
The president, under scrutiny since his damaging debate appearance last week, did not stumble or falter during his brief remarks.
By Michael D. Shear
In a step toward monarchy, the bedrock principle that presidents are not above the law has been set aside.
By The Editorial Board
The Supreme Court’s immunity decision directed the trial court to hold hearings on what portions of the indictment can survive — a possible chance for prosecutors to set out their case in public before Election Day.
By Alan Feuer
An evidentiary hearing in federal court could lay out previously undisclosed information.
By Andrew Weissmann
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Key excerpts from the decision reveal how the court’s conservative majority views the power of the nation’s leader.
By Charlie Savage
El tribunal determinó que el expresidente tiene presunta inmunidad en sus conductas oficiales, y que toca a los tribunales de primera instancia distinguirlas de las no oficiales.
By Adam Liptak
Former President Donald J. Trump took the action hours after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted him immunity for official acts committed in office.
By Ben Protess and William K. Rashbaum
Instead of delivering a judgment many months ago and allowing the trial to proceed, the justices gave Trump the gift of delay piled upon delay.
By Laurence H. Tribe
Readers discuss some of the major decisions at the end of the court’s term.
The final day of the current Supreme Court term included some of the most eagerly awaited decisions.
By Linda Qiu
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