David G. Savage has covered the Supreme Court and legal issues for the Los Angeles Times in the Washington bureau since 1986. He has covered the Senate confirmation hearings for all of the current justices. In addition to writing about the court’s work, he has written on the legal battles that have raged in Washington. He joined The Times in 1981 and was an education writer on the Metro staff for five years. He has degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northwestern University.
Latest From This Author
The Supreme Court cleared the way for Elon Musk’s DOGE team to examine Social Security records that include personal information on most Americans.
Supreme Court rejects a double standard for deciding claims of workplace discrimination.
Mexico said American-made weapons are responsible for its gun violence, but U.S. laws bar suits against gun makers.
California’s first-in-the-nation ban on semiautomatic rifles could face a future challenge in Supreme Court.
Trump revoked two large-scale Biden policies that extended temporary protection to migrants. ‘The court plainly botched this,’ Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a dissent.
Supreme Court says development is too often delayed or blocked by environmental impact claims.
Supreme Court refuses to take up conservative backlash against LGBTQ policies.
The decision is the latest in which the court’s conservative majority sided with the president’s power to fire agency officials in violation of long-standing laws.
The justices announced they were split 4-4 in a test case heard last month from Oklahoma, which blocks the new Catholic charter school in the state.
The Supreme Court agreed that Trump can repeal former President Biden’s immigration policies and seek to deport those who had a temporary shield.