The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new rules for states to condemn those with borderline intellectual disabilities to death row.

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the public release of potentially hundreds of thousands of pages of documents from the case against Ghislaine Maxwell, saying that access to the records is required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Congress approved last month.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled over whether to lift limits on how much political parties can spend in cooperation with candidates. The case could significantly shift the balance of political power between the parties and outside groups such as Super PACs.

Justice Department lawyers said Tuesday that a recent ruling barring their access to key evidence has effectively crippled their efforts to reindict former FBI director James B. Comey, two weeks after their original case against him was dismissed.

Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s embattled pick as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, said Monday that she is resigning after a protracted legal battle over the legitimacy of her appointment.

The Supreme Court on Monday appeared poised to allow President Donald Trump to fire a leader of the Federal Trade Commission, a ruling that could limit or overturn a 90-year-old precedent that curbs executive power to dismiss the heads of agencies Congress set up to be independent.

The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear a case examining the legality of President Donald Trump’s ban on birthright citizenship, a high-stakes test of the controversial policy that could redefine who is considered an American.

A grand jury in Virginia on Thursday rejected Justice Department efforts to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud, declining to indict her again after a judge dismissed the charges last week, according to two people familiar with the matter, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak about the proceedings.

The Supreme Court on Thursday handed President Donald Trump and Republicans a major political victory by clearing the way for a Texas congressional map that was drawn in the hope of flipping up to five House seats to the GOP.

A year after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down from behind by a masked shooter with a 3D-printed weapon and a makeshift silencer, no trial date has been set for Luigi Mangione, the suspect Patrolman Joseph Detwiler arrested. Mangione has spent much of the past year at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he is being held without the option of bail.