We learned in civics class that the rationale behind separation of powers in federal government is to prevent any single branch from becoming too powerful. Evidently, President-elect Donald Trump was ...

When the Supreme Court justices first shared an inaugural stage with Donald Trump, they heard the new president deliver a ...

In June, the court halted the agency’s air-pollution-fighting “good neighbor” rule. Justice Samuel Alito recused himself from ...

Alito, one of six conservative justices on the nine-member Supreme Court, confirmed he took a call from Trump on Tuesday, one day before Trump's lawyers filed a petition asking the court to halt his ...

President-elect Donald Trump received an unconditional discharge for his criminal conviction, meaning he will get a criminal ...

We’re going to appeal anyway, just psychologically, because frankly it’s a disgrace,” Trump said the evening before the ...

New York Justice Juan Merchan sentenced the president-elect to an “unconditional discharge,” handing down no jail time or fines but cementing a mark on Trump’s record 10 days before he takes the oath ...

In the first test of how receptive the court may be to Trump, 4 of the court's 6 conservative members said they would have ...

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court refused to block President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal sentencing for covering up hush money paid to ... phone with Justice Samuel Alito, who formed part of ...

This was the criminal case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, accusing Trump of falsifying business records in the run-up to the 2016 election, with respect to the hush money ...