Oct 19 (Reuters) - The US Supreme Court is hearing a series of important cases during its current nine-month term involving issues such as President Donald Trump's immigration policies, asylum, assault-style rifle bans,

Here’s a look at some of the most important cases decided by the US Supreme Court since 1789. This decision established the system of checks and balances and the power of the Supreme Court within the federal government.

As the Supreme Court is set to start its new term, Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito sat down with CBS News' Jan Crawford in a rare interview ahead of the release of his new book, saying that political attacks aimed at the high court -- most recently by President Trump on his social media platform -- "can be quite damaging."

By Andrew Chung Oct 21 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday to let it proceed with a plan to build a US-Mexico border barrier in a remote region in West Texas that includes Big Bend National Park.

The media-assisted campaign to undermine and delegitimize the U.S. Supreme Court, thus making it ripe for “reform,” continues apace. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman last week made an offhand remark in an article about the Michigan U.S. Senate ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's new term will address critical constitutional and statutory questions across criminal law, First Amendment rights, gun ownership, civil procedure, intellectual property, labor law, and immigration, with additional significant cases ...