Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s seat was empty when the Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in an important case over the oil and gas industry’s responsibility for damage to the ...

Politics / In this installment of Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores the week’s big legal news, including a possible Alito retirement. Also, the anti-trans mob’s latest target: tight ...

The long-term health of the ocean off the coast of Southern California, and the health of the region’s freshwater streams and rivers and lakes, soon could hinge on the Trump administration’s ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito grilled an attorney representing a biological male athlete in the case of Little v. Hecox on Tuesday about the definitions of a woman and girl. Alito asked Kathleen ...

Justice Samuel Alito said on Tuesday that the lawyer defending a Hawaii gun law, which requires gun owners to get permission to carry firearms on private property, is treating the Second Amendment as ...

Adelanto will provide free water filtration systems to 500 residents following complaints of contaminated water.

The agency wants to curtail a section of the Clean Water Act that Democratic governors have used to restrict fossil fuel development. By Maxine Joselow and Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington The ...

Justice Samuel Alito wanted to know why the court was deciding this case in such a “hurried manner” when no court has explored the facts of President Trump’s reasoning for removing Lisa Cook from the ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito questions attorney Kathleen Hartnett on defining sex for equal protection purposes during oral arguments over transgender athlete eligibility in women’s sports.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed limiting states’ and Native American tribes’ power to wield the Clean Water Act to block major projects like natural gas ...

Kathleen Hartnett, the attorney for a transgender student-athlete, was unable to define what a woman is when questioned by Justice Samuel Alito during Supreme Court oral arguments on Tuesday over ...