The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled a private conference for November 7 to decide whether to hear a case brought by former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, seeking to overturn the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling that guarantees nationwide same-sex marriage rights.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by President Donald Trump's administration in a case out of Texas to defend a federal law that bars users of illegal drugs from owning guns - one of the statutes under which former President Joe Biden's son Hunter was charged in 2023.

The US Supreme Court has agreed to review the constitutionality of the gun law used to conviction Hunter Biden. The former first son was convicted last summer of illegally owning a gun while hooked on drugs — but he received a pardon from his father, former President Joe Biden, before he left office.

The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights.

(Reuters) -As the state of Alabama prepared to execute a death row inmate on Thursday with nitrogen gas, the U.S.

The US Supreme Court, hearing arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, appeared inclined to limit the use of the landmark law to force states to draw electoral districts favorable to minority voters.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has called lawmakers into a Special Session to delay elections while awaiting Supreme Court ruling on congressional map.

The Voting Rights Act, a landmark law barring discrimination in voting, was a product of the U.S. civil rights era, sought by Nobel Peace Prize recipient Martin Luther King, passed by Congress and signed by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson in 1965.