Trump has racked up a nearly unbroken string of Supreme Court wins on emergency appeals. Justice Kagan said the court should explain those decisions.

Justice Elena Kagan, the second-longest-serving liberal on the Supreme Court, decried threats to judges, vitriolic reactions to rulings and the defiance of court orders.

In remarks before judges and lawyers in California, the justice said she believed the court had a responsibility to share its reasoning.

Kim Davis asked the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges in an appeal of damages owed to a gay couple after denying them a marriage license.

The U.S. Supreme Court let Republican President Donald Trump on Wednesday remove three Democratic members of the government's top consumer product safety watchdog, boosting his power over federal agencies set up by Congress to be independent from presidential control.

Justices granted emergency request from the DOJ, which argued the president has authority to remove commissioners without cause.

The US Supreme Court unanimously validates Oklahoman senator's law allowing Americans victimized by international terrorism to sue the perpetrators in federal court.

The Supreme Court allows Trump to remove CPSC board members Boyle, Hoehn-Saric and Trumka Jr., following rulings on presidential authority over agencies.