Herd immunity occurs when enough people in a group are immune to a specific infection that it cannot spread easily from person to person. Vaccination programs have been successful in creating herd ...

Melissa Quinn is a senior reporter for CBSNews.com, where she covers U.S. politics, with a focus on the Supreme Court and federal courts. The outcome of the dispute, known as Trump v. U.S., will have ...

The Supreme Court’s ruling giving President-elect Donald Trump some immunity from criminal prosecution has already helped the ex-president out in court, but it could also embolden Trump going into his ...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson openly expressing "concern" about the High Court's recent presidential immunity ruling shows that progressive justices are in a "weak position," according ...

Judge Tanya Chutkan will now apply the Supreme Court's immunity decision. One month after the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling on presidential immunity, the judge overseeing former President ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday announced a bill that would ensure that presidents do not have criminal immunity. The legislation is a direct response to the Supreme ...

The Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision is a mistake. The president has called for a constitutional amendment to overturn it. But the most harmful parts of that mistake could be reversed in ...

Critics say the immunity ruling is flawed for reasons similar to those the court gave for overturning Roe, which had established a right to abortion. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington In the ...

President Joe Biden on Monday ripped the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity, which ruled that presidents have an absolute immunity from prosecution for core official acts, and issued a ...

WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for actions that were within his constitutional powers as president in a landmark decision ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Supreme Court’s decision granting former President Trump immunity for official acts “completely insulate[s] presidents from criminal liability” in a forceful dissent ...

Presidents and former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts they took while in office, the Supreme Court said in a 6-3 decision Monday, in a case that will likely ...