Henry Gass

President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll pardon many of those convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol – a potentially controversial precedent.

Newly elected president Donald Trump has a bucket of legal problems – and a Justice Department soon at his disposal. He may reshape American justice.

In the U.S, 26 states and Washington, D.C. allow people with a felony conviction to vote.

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, it returned the abortion issue to the states. This election, more than any other moment to date, will tell us how states respond.

Unseating Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas may be Democrats’ last, best hope for holding the Senate. But the Lone Star State has disappointed them before.

SpaceX achieved a first Sunday by returning its Super Heavy booster rocket safely to rest in the launch tower. Among Texas locals, concerns about environmental impacts are matched by enthusiasm for space industry innovation.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

Supreme Court justices are set to grapple with cases involving transgender rights, “ghost guns,” and fallout from the court’s decisions to weaken federal agencies. And then there’s the election.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

After a term in which Chief Justice John Roberts wrote landmark opinions benefiting former President Donald Trump, some court watchers are reevaluating his institutionalist image.

Nebraska’s high court is ruling on whether a new law, letting those with felony convictions vote, is constitutional. How U.S. voting rights are shaking out.

Prosecuting a former and would-be leader may be the ultimate stress test of a nation’s justice system. Donald Trump’s criminal cases are all delayed.

A New York judge agreed to postpone the sentencing of former President Donald Trump in a criminal case involving falsified records on hush money.

Local and tribal governments are aiming to reduce overdose deaths as they start to receive billions of dollars from legal settlements with opioid manufacturers.

President Biden had resisted calls to reform the Supreme Court. Then came the July decision offering former presidents immunity for any official act.

At a time when a majority of Americans believe the high court makes decisions based on ideology rather than on the law, Justice Amy Coney Barrett has quietly gone her own way, even on hot-button issues.

Overturning Roe was just the first step for conservatives eager to undo what they regarded as past judicial mistakes. This term overturned more precedents.

The three decisions issued Friday alone would qualify as a history-making term. And the Supreme Court is not done, with arguably the biggest case coming Monday.

As the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case Thursday on whether presidents have absolute immunity, trust in the high court remains near historic lows.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case, Grants Pass v. Johnson, that asks if it’s cruel and unusual to punish people for being homeless.