In rare interviews, Alito defends court’s independence, reflects on impact of Dobbs leak October 10, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News In interviews at the start of the new Supreme Court term, Justice Samuel Alito expressed concern about what he called “a concerted effort to intimidate the court.”
Supreme Court hears key climate change lawsuit, but procedural question remains October 8, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News In the first case of its new term Oct. 5, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a lawsuit from officials in Boulder, Colorado, against two major oil companies over climate change.
Supreme Court expected to hear religious liberty, gun and environmental cases in its new term October 7, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court began its new term Oct. 5, with cases on its schedule involving religious liberty, guns, immigration and the environment.
Supreme Court strikes down some Trump priorities, but expands presidential power July 8, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court ended its 2025-2026 term with major rulings striking down President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, and upholding West Virginia and Idaho state laws requiring student athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond to their biological sex rather than their self-identified gender.
Supreme Court finds Trump executive order on birthright citizenship unconstitutional July 1, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship on June 30, finding the order violated the 14th Amendment.
Supreme Court says Title IX permits Idaho, West Virginia transgender sports bans June 30, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Sports, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 upheld West Virginia and Idaho state laws requiring student athletes to compete on sports teams that correspond to their biological sex rather than their self-perceived gender identity.
Supreme Court allows policy permitting asylum-seekers to be turned away at US-Mexico border June 26, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court on June 25 ruled that the Trump administration can reimplement a policy of turning away asylum-seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border before they enter the country, known as “metering.”
Despite land transfer, Apache Stronghold continues effort to protect sacred Arizona site June 23, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News Although the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear its case and the land has been transferred, an Indigenous coalition seeking to protect its sacred site at Oak Flat in Arizona from destruction by a copper mining giant continues its legal efforts, the group’s lawyer told OSV News.
Supreme Court declines to dismiss Peter’s Pence lawsuit May 28, 2026By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ efforts to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it misled donors about the purposes of the annual Peter’s Pence collection.
Supreme Court leaves in place mail-order distribution of mifepristone during legal challenge May 15, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court on May 14 blocked an appeals court ruling that sought to pause a federal policy permitting mifepristone, sometimes called the abortion pill, to be dispensed through the mail.
As justices consider birthright citizenship, displaced mom says her US-born child ‘should belong’ May 11, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Supreme Court, World News As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to consider a challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, the mother of a U.S.-born infant, who is displaced from her own country of origin, told OSV News her son “should belong to this country.”
Supreme Court hears case on birthright citizenship executive order with Trump in attendance April 1, 2026By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments April 1 on President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, with the president in attendance.
