The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it will hear arguments on January 21 in President Donald Trump's attempt to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, a move without precedent that challenges the central bank's independence.

EARLY IN HIS second term, Donald Trump has profited from his previous appointments of Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. With few exceptions, they and their three conservative colleagues have removed obstacles to Mr Trump’s plans imposed by lower courts—letting him ban transgender soldiers from the armed forces,

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in “Fernandez v. United States” Wednesday: a case that weighs two different means for prisoners to get a reduction in sentence.

Jim Obergefell, the Ohio man at center of landmark ruling that legalized gay marriage in the United States, said threats to marriage equality remain.

Landor v. Louisiana involves whether an inmate of a minority religious group, the Rastafarians, can sue for monetary damages after the warden violated his religious rights – specifically, the right to not cut his hair.

But the administration indicated it might not be necessary, as Congress moved toward a deal to fund the government.

To understand how grudging Amy Coney Barrett’s new book is when it comes to revealing personal details, consider that one of the family members the Supreme Court Justice most often refers to is a great-grandmother who died five years before she was born.

In a brief order, the U.S. Supreme Court acceded to a request by the Trump administration to at least temporarily block enforcement of an order by a lower court judge to fund the full November allotment for each of the 42 million Americans who qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP.