For the first time in Alaska history, the state’s supreme court is majority female. It’s also being led, for just the second ...

Supreme Court Justice Elena Highton de Nolasco Tuesday ... scenario regarding to Supreme Court vacancy. Highton was the first woman appointed to the Court, on June 28, 2004. Carmen Argibay had ...

A significant figure in the Civil Rights movement and a historic federal judge, Constance Baker Motley remains largely ...

PHOENIX — Justices of the Arizona Supreme ... is whether women in Arizona will be able to have an elective abortion, at least through the first 15 weeks of pregnancy. If the court sides with ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish woman to serve on the Supreme ... a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice,” said Schumer, who is Jewish.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 25 people were executed in the United States in 2024. The number of death sentences imposed was 26. There are 2,092 people on death row in the United ...

Key lawsuits seeking to eliminate the bureau have twice reached the Supreme Court. Both times ... Ms. Shogan, the first woman appointed to the typically apolitical role, was something of an ...

The Supreme Court has held that a woman would be entitled to claim maintenance under Section 125 of the CrPC from her second husband even if her previous marriage was legally subsisting. A bench of ...

The sport has already been evolving quickly, ever since the NCAA (and really, the courts) gave athletes the freedom to make ...

Gabe Whisnant is Deputy Weekend Editor at Newsweek based in South Carolina. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023, he directed daily publications in North and South Carolina. As an executive editor ...