Republican Justice Pat Fischer confirmed he'll try to unseat fellow Justice Jennifer Brunner, the lone Democrat left on the state’s high court.

In the case of a tie at the Supreme Court level, the lower court decision remains in place. Tie rulings may become more common moving forward as the justices adapt to the court’s relatively new ethics code. The code, which was adopted in 2023, puts more pressure on the justices to track and disclose potential conflicts of interest.

The justices left in place a lower-court decision that allows the transfer of land in central Arizona known as Oak Flat that is sacred to Western Apache Indians.

The Supreme Court is turning to the final weeks of a busy term that started off with blockbuster appeals over transgender rights and TikTok but that has increasingly become wrapped up in the policies and politics of President Donald Trump.

The group Apache Stronghold is vowing to carry on the fight against a massive copper mining project on land the Apaches hold sacred, after a Supreme Court decision that is expected to let the mine proceed.

More than a year after the city prevailed in a lawsuit originally filed in 2017 by former Police Chief Dan Gilles and former Lt. Carmen Battaglia, the Ohio Supreme Court recently declined to hear an appeal.

The justices turned away an appeal by Apache Stronghold, an advocacy group comprised of Arizona's San Carlos Apache tribe and conservationists, of a lower court's ruling that allowed the federal government to swap acreage with the mining companies for their Resolution Copper project.

A Democratic representative from Georgia reintroduced a bill to create term limits for Supreme Court justices.