The Mandate: How Penalties And Benefits Work
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision upholding the Affordable Care Act includes a controversial mandate requiring Americans to buy insurance, beginning in 2014.
View ArticleJustice Scalia Disputes Accuracy Of 'Leak'
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, influential conservative and pugilistic dissenter, is challenging everything from a recent leak about Supreme Court deliberations, to conventional wisdom about the...
View ArticleInterviewing Scalia: Verbal Wrestling Match With A Master
I've gotten a lot of email about my interview with Justice Antonin Scalia on Tuesday. People seem to have liked the story because they could see the justice as a human being — combative, funny,...
View ArticleAs Execution Looms, Texas Debates Steinbeck And What's Mentally Impaired
There's a life-or-death drama unfolding in Texas tonight. It involves the death penalty, the Supreme Court and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. First the basics: Marvin Wilson, 54, is set to be...
View ArticleJailed Young, Inmates Seek A New Day In Court
A recent Supreme Court decision striking down mandatory life terms for juveniles has touched off a flurry of activity across the country, especially in Pennsylvania, where lawyers are advising about...
View ArticleThe First Amendment: Why The Muhammad Film Is Protected Speech
The First Amendment guarantee of free speech is in the spotlight this week. If you haven't kept up, a U.S.-produced film depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a less than flattering way has inflamed the...
View ArticleJustice Ginsburg Predicts Gay Marriage Question Headed To High Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a bit of news during an appearance at the University of Colorado, yesterday. When she was asked a question about the issue of gay marriage, she smiled and declined to...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Will Not Intercede In Texas Execution
The U.S. Supreme Court will not halt the execution of Texas death row inmate Cleve Foster, as it did three times in 2011. Foster, 48, has maintained he is innocent in the 2002 shooting death of Nyaneur...
View ArticleHigh Court Preps For Another Headline-Making Term
It would be hard to beat last June's cataclysmic, cacophonous end of the Supreme Court term and the decision upholding the Obama health care law. But while all the media focus is on the upcoming...
View ArticleSupreme Court To Take Up Affirmative Action Case
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: And I'm Robert Siegel. Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a landmark...
View ArticleAt U. Of Texas, A Melting Pot Not Fully Blended
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a landmark case about race and college admissions. In 2008, a white student named Abigail Fisher was denied admission to the University of...
View ArticleJustices Return To Affirmative Action In Higher Ed
The U.S. Supreme Court returns on Wednesday to the emotional issue of affirmative action in higher education. The court will once again hear oral arguments on the issue, this time in a case from the...
View ArticleCourt Questions University's Affirmative Action Plan
Affirmative action in higher education appeared to take a potentially lethal hit on Wednesday, as the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments testing the constitutionality of a race-conscious admission...
View ArticleDespite Hurricane, Justices Hear Surveillance Case
The rest of the government may have been shut down for the hurricane, but not the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices were in court Monday to consider a challenge to the 2008 Foreign Intelligence...
View ArticleCan Drug-Sniffing Dog Prompt Home Search?
You can already hear all the likely jokes at the Supreme Court, about the justices going to the dogs. But the issue being argued Wednesday is deadly serious: whether police can take a trained...
View ArticleDrug-Sniffing Dogs Take Center Stage At High Court
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases Wednesday testing what, if any, limits there are to the police using drug-sniffing dogs. By the close of two hours of argument, it looked very much...
View ArticleSupreme Court To Weigh Constitutionality Of Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court has agreed to weigh the constitutionality of the decision by Congress in 2006 to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act, the landmark Civil Rights legislation enacted in 1965 that let...
View ArticleOdds In Favor Of A New Supreme Court Justice In Obama's Second Term
There has been vigorous public debate this election cycle about the Supreme Court; from the Citizens United case to the Affordable Care Act.
View ArticleAs Talk Of Affirmative Action Heats Up, Asians Contemplate Their Position
It's been an eventful couple of months for those following the debate over affirmative action.
View ArticleSupreme Court To Look At Who Is A 'Supervisor' In Harassment Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court this week takes up the question of who qualifies as a supervisor when the issue is harassment in the workplace. The court's answer to that question could significantly restrict...
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