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Confirmation all but sure, Kagan ending hearings
WASHINGTON (AP) — Her confirmation all but assured, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan neared the end of a final grueling day of Senate questioning Wednesday, fielding GOP challenges on abortion, gays...
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Supreme Court 'activism' is in the eye of the beholder
For years neo-conservatives in America have warned us about “activist judges”. Judges appointed by liberals that will inject a liberal ideology into their decisions rather than base their decisions on...
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Kagan sworn in as fourth woman ever on Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) — Elena Kagan was sworn in as the 112th justice and fourth woman ever to serve on the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath Saturday to Kagan in a brief...
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Justices meet Friday to vote on health care case
WASHINGTON (AP) — While the rest of us have to wait until June, the justices of the Supreme Court will know the likely outcome of the historic health care case by the time they go home this weekend....
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How Chief Justice Roberts could uphold 'Obamacare'
Talking Points Memo recently reported on how Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts may have indicated possible agreement with president on the fate of health care reform in a recent case argued before...
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Supreme Court upholds nearly all of Obamacare
The Supreme Court today upheld the mandate that people buy health insurance at the center of President Obama’s health care law, ruling it effectively constituted a tax and was therefore within the...
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Is Chief Justice John Roberts turning over a new leaf?
Chief Justice John Roberts cast the deciding vote to uphold the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature piece of legislation and a cornerstone of his first term in office. In light of this...
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Ted Nugent: US might be better off if ‘the South won the Civil War’
Right wing rocker Ted Nugent is at it again. In op-ed in opposition to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold health care reform, the controversial musician muses about whether or not America would be...
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Supreme Court casts serious doubt over future of affirmative action
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court justices sharply questioned the University of Texas’ use of race in college admissions Wednesday in a case that could lead to new limits on affirmative action. The...
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President Obama to hold two swearing-in ceremonies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in President Barack Obama for a second term later this month. The Presidential Inaugural Committee says Roberts will administer the oath of...
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Obama to take private oath in brief family service
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s private swearing-in will be a brief, sparsely attended ceremony in the Blue Room of the White House. White House spokesman Jay Carney says Supreme Court...
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Barack Obama sworn in to second term as US president
WASHINGTON (AP) — Stepping into his second term, President Barack Obama took the oath of office Sunday in an intimate swearing-in ceremony at the White House, the leader of a nation no longer in the...
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Obama stumbles on ‘states’ during swearing in
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts got it right this time — but President Barack Obama appeared to stumble over the word “states” during his ceremonial swearing in. In...
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How the Supreme Court could reshape racial politics in America
If it rules as expected in two closely-watched cases over the next few months, the U.S. Supreme Court, lead by five conservative justices, will cement a view it has already suggested in the past:...
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Over Obama’s objections, Supreme Court pushes view of ‘post-racial’ America
The conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court are aggressively pressing their view that American law and policy should remove considerations of race, despite the objections of President Obama, who in...
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Scalia’s take on Voting Rights Act a slap in the face to civil rights advocates
Is the U.S. Supreme Court ready to kill the Voting Rights Act? If Justice Antonin Scalia’s recent comments are any indication, we’re in for some trouble. On Monday at the University of California...
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Supreme Court voids key part of Voting Rights Act
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act cannot be enforced unless Congress comes up with a new way of determining which states and...
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In rejecting Voting Rights Act, Supreme Court says the South is no different...
In striking down one of the central planks of the Voting Rights Act, the conservatives on the Supreme Court effectively declared that history aside, the states in the South are no different than those...
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Does it matter that a black judge leads America’s secret court?
Who would have known that a black judge is in charge of America’s “secret” court? Perhaps it was a secret. In any case, Reggie Walton, an African-American, is presiding judge of the Foreign...
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Did Clarence Thomas break ethics rules?
A top House Democrat is going after one of the Supreme Court’s most conservative justices and trying to enlist the Chief Justice in her cause. On Wednesday, New York Rep. Louise Slaughter wrote to...
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