Louisiana prosecutors are asking the Supreme Court to revisit its recent decision outlawing the death penalty for people convicted of raping children.

John Paul Stevens still plays tennis at 88. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 75, works out regularly in the Supreme Court gym.

The members of the Supreme Court, by age:

Republican John McCain said Tuesday that his Democratic rival’s Supreme Court nominees would produce more decisions like the child rapist ruling that both presidential candidates have...

Brief summaries of the rulings from the leading cases before the Supreme Court in its just-ended term:

For most of the term, Supreme Court justices showed remarkable restraint. They displayed broad agreement even in some volatile areas and refrained from angry dissents.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to step into an environmental dispute over a gold mining operation near Juneau, Alaska and a California criminal case in which a convicted killer was granted a new...

The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to step into an environmental dispute over a gold mining operation near Juneau, Alaska.

The Supreme Court embraced a personal right under the Constitution to have guns for self-defense. But in its historic examination of the Second Amendment, the justices left unanswered whether gun rights extend beyond the home or how...

Silent on central questions of gun control for two centuries, the Supreme Court found its voice Thursday in a decision affirming the right to have guns for self-defense in the home and addressing a constitutional riddle almost as old as the...