The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit applied the Supreme Court’s “historical tradition” test.

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled against a federal law requiring young adults to be 21 to buy handguns, finding it ...

A decades-old U.S. government ban on federally licensed firearms dealers selling handguns to adults under the age of 21 is ...

A conservative federal appeals court said Thursday that a federal law banning the sale of handguns to 18- to 20-year-olds is ...

The justices may give their blessing to the nation’s first religious public school. But we should have seen this coming.

For the second year, half of Supreme Court cases involve the federal government as respondents or petitioners, a novel trend ...

At a hearing and in court filings, a federal prosecutor in Vermont cited connections between the defendant, Teresa Youngblut, ...

Term limits, court expansion, and ethics were addressed as possible SCOTUS reforms during the inaugural event with Open to ...

The debate today depends on whether, in 1868, foreigners were considered 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States.

A Muslim convert who threatened to "flatten" a mosque and plotted to attack an Islamic cleric who was an outspoken critic of ...

CNN Brasil reports that as the child started school, he expressed his desire to get formal recognition for what he believed to be true: that he had three fathers.

The case is the latest—and arguably biggest—test of the conservative majority’s appetite to remove legal barriers for religious groups seeking to participate in taxpayer-funded programs, with ...