A new ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court protecting voter rights could extend to astronauts living and working in space and ...

The US Supreme Court ruled that federal law permits mail-in ballots to arrive after Election Day in a decision that preserves grace periods in 30 states.

The Supreme Court’s decision this week on mail-in ballots got the most attention, but its decision on campaign spending may ...

The Supreme Court will consider whether Arizona rules requiring voters to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote violate federal law.

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It is nothing short of stunning that Trump came one vote away from persuading the court to repeal the bedrock of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Watson v. Republican National Committee, upholding a Mississippi law allowing ballots postmarked by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Justice Samuel Alito cautioned on Monday that the Supreme Court's decision to allow ballots received after Election Day to be ...

ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely ...

For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily worked to transform the concept of discrimination based on race, from the civil-rights-era vision that the government has an obligation to remedy and ...