Quantcast
Channel: U.S. Supreme Court
Browsing all 147 articles
Browse latest View live

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 Article



Justice 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 Article

Interviewing 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 Article

As 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 Article

Jailed 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 Article


The 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 Article

Justice 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 Article

U.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 Article


High 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 Article


Supreme 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 Article

At 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 Article

Justices 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 Article

Court 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 Article


Despite 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 Article

Can 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 Article


Drug-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 Article

Supreme 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 Article


Odds 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 Article

As 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 Article

Supreme 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...

View Article
Browsing all 147 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images