Justice Anthony M. Kennedy provided the crucial swing vote yesterday in three Supreme Court cases striking down the death sentences of Texas inmates, a New York…
A New York Times article weighs in on the issue of whether religion mattered in last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding a ban on “partial-birth”…
In oral arguments yesterday, Solicitor General Paul D. Clement ran into trouble as he argued against an exception to a ban on some issue ads by unions and businesses in…
In an exercise of force by the Democrat-controlled Congress, legislators today approved what a New York Times article described as a “flurry” of subpoenas.
Several justices showed little enthusiasm today for a federal law that restricts TV ads by unions and businesses in the weeks before an election, SCOTUSblog reports.
The U.S. Supreme Court will have to sort through a tangle of issues in a case that asks whether the speech or debate clause gives immunity to members of Congress…
Acting on a government motion, a federal judge has withdrawn a ruling that the Bush administration unconstitutionally designated 27 groups and individuals as terrorists, the New…
A federal judge says Los Angeles police officers are violating the Constitution when they question and sometimes search parolees and probationers without any evidence they committed crimes, the Apr 25, 2007 4:27 PM CDT
A former dean of the University of Chicago Law School joined today with vociferous critics of this week’s U.S. Supreme Court abortion ruling, castigating its so-called partial-birth abortion ban as…