Author: John Fritze, USA TODAY

The decision is the latest in which the court has significantly shifted the interpretation of the Constitution toward a conservative viewpoint.

Over the years, John Roberts demonstrated a prowess of building slim majorities around narrow rulings. Now things have changed.

The decision had the potential to shift the landscape on Second Amendment rights at a time when Americans are divided over access to guns.

In the most significant climate change case to reach the Supreme Court in years, the justices will consider EPA’s authority to regulate power plants.

The nation is waiting for the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling. But other major cases on climate and the Second Amendment are also looming.

Supreme Court Justice Alito’s leaked draft abortion opinion has drawn fire from some historians who say he cherry-picked from the historical record.

Justice Thomas, speaking at a conference in Dallas, lamented what he described as a loss of trust at the court following the leak of a draft opinion.

Roe v. Wade has been the law of the land for 50 years. But the Supreme Court has said that honoring precedent is not an “inexorable command.”

Leaks happen at the Supreme Court, but they are very rare. Legal experts said they are concerned about the impact on the court as an institution.

The stunning leak of a draft opinion set off an unexpected firestorm around one of the nation’s most divisive culture war issues.