Author: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY

President Donald Trump and a majority of Supreme Court justices paid homage Monday to the late Associate Justice John Paul Stevens.

John Paul Stevens, the second oldest and third longest-serving Supreme Court justice, was a Republican president’s nominee but led the liberal wing.

The health care law has helped insure 20 million people since 2010 and survived two Supreme Court battles in 2012 and 2015, but it’s threatened again.

Faced with a clothing line called FUCT, the justices struck down federal bans against granting trademark protection for immoral or scandalous material

The justices upheld the ability of federal and state prosecutions to try defendants twice for the same crime, which could affect anyone Trump pardons.

The Supreme Court agreed to decide if the nation’s largest cable TV company discriminated againstan African-American media mogul.

The Supreme Court refused to decide if the Second Amendment protects gun silencers such as one used in last month’s deadly Virginia Beach shooting.

The court’s liberals show irritation at its more conservative majority –once in the middle of the night. Some conservatives chafe for faster change.

The Justice Department told Furman the latest challenge is an eleventh-hour campaign to derail the Supreme Court decision, which is expected in June.

The Supreme Court is digging into a dispute over a sunken pirate ship captained three centuries ago by the legendary pirate Blackbeard.