A majority of Supreme Court justices did not attend Donald Trump’s joint speech to Congress Tuesday night, among them two of the court’s three liberals: Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Also absent were Justices Samuel Alito,

The U.S. Supreme Court avoided deadlock with a fractured 5-3 decision to give Richard Glossip, the Oklahoma death row inmate whose execution has been rescheduled nine times, a new trial, finding that the prosecution violated its legal obligations.

Justice Clarence Thomas dissented and was joined by Justice Samuel Alito. As in other cases, Justice Amy Coney Barrett concurred with the majority in part and dissented in part. Justice Neil Gorsuch did not take part in the case. In his dissent ...

Earlier, the chief justice temporarily let the Trump administration avoid paying out congressionally appropriated funds for now.

For nearly three years, it has seemed inevitable that the Supreme Court would strike down the “buffer zones” that restrict protests near the entrances of reproductive health clinics. A majority of the court has already castigated these laws—and past precedent upholding them—as a subversion of anti-abortion protesters’ First Amendment rights.