The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a challenge to admissions criteria for a middle-school magnet program in a Maryland county that some parents argue put Asian American students at a disadvantage.

The new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, is out of her role just five days into the job, according to people familiar with the situation, after President Donald Trump said publicly that she should think about leaving.

A lawyer for the woman who is suing Cornell University and multiple other defendants in connection with an alleged gang rape at a fraternity house pushed back Wednesday against an attempt to restrict what is said about the case, accusing attorneys for the defendants of leaking information to the news media.

President Donald Trump on Thursday said that the forthcoming execution of a former U.S. Army psychiatrist who killed numerous colleagues at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 will not be livestreamed, upending a plan that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled last week.

While videocassettes and their purveyors have become relics of that bygone era, the the Video Privacy Protection Act lives on. The law is now the focus of a Supreme Court case involving one of the world’s largest media conglomerates—and a man named Michael Salazar, who says the company violated the VPPA when it gave his video-watching history to Facebook.

Religion is on a winning streak at the Supreme Court—and faith-based advocates are pushing to extend it in coming months, hoping to cement a shift in American life that could be one of the current court’s biggest legacies.

A growing spotlight on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was underscored by the intense speculation that has swirled around whether he will retire and a series of media appearances with the recent release of his first book, “So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country.”

NASHVILLE—A Tennessee judge on Wednesday ordered state officials to preserve all evidence related to the botched attempt to execute inmate Christa Pike, who survived two lethal doses of pentobarbital last week and remains hospitalized in Nashville.

The Justice Department filed judicial misconduct complaints against all but one of Minnesota’s active federal judges Wednesday, calling recent media interviews they gave discussing the impact of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown in their state evidence of partisan bias and a “threat to the rule of law.”

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said his withdrawal from a high-stakes climate change case involving the oil and gas industry was a “difficult judgment call” he made even after the court’s legal office said he didn’t have to disqualify himself.