Trump didn't place his hand on the Bible during his swearing-in, and some of his supporters are blaming John Roberts.
President-elect Donald Trump's recent defeat at the Supreme Court tells us important things about the high court.
While the Constitution does not specify who must administer oaths, Chief Justice John Roberts is expected to swear in Donald Trump on Monday, continuing a two-century-old tradition.
In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons have shattered political and legal norms. But one order is in a category of its own.
Discover how the current Supreme Court has broken with tradition, not only in its rulings but also in its approach to punctuation.
The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death during a traffic stop in Houston over unpaid tolls.
As Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said nearly two decades ago, “The way to stop discriminating based on race is to stop discriminating based on race.”
While the Court’s politics have veered right over the past decade, the justices’ prose has shifted left, becoming more colloquial and accessible.
Although presidents and other government officials have historically sworn the oath on a Bible, the Constitution doesn’t require it.
It isn’t surprising that JD Vance was sworn in as vice president by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, with whom Vance and his wife have longstanding ties. Usha Chilukuri Vance clerked for Kavanaugh when he was an appellate judge in a year when all four of his clerks were women.
Donald Trump kicked off his second term on Monday with a slew of executive orders that sought to transform the federal government into a pliant tool of the MAGA agenda. Many of his orders reflected his nativist goals,
"President Trump's speech was both more confident and more divisive than his first inaugural. Then, he spoke darkly of the nation but also offered some olive branches, such as thanking