WASHINGTON (AP) — A seemingly divided Supreme Court wrestled today with whether teenagers can be locked away forever for their crimes. ...more

November 9, 2009

Upon reading your editorial of Monday, May 19 on civility in the appointing of Supreme Court Justices, one question came to my mind. Did you also encourage civility when Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Samuel Alito were nominated for the Supreme Court? If you did not, why not and if you did not, why then are you advocating it now? ...more

May 22, 2009

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that electoral districts must have a majority of African-Americans or other minorities to be protected by a provision of the Voting Rights Act. ...more

March 9, 2009

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that military training trumps protecting whales in a dispute over the Navy's use of sonar in submarine-hunting exercises off the coast of Southern California. ...more

November 13, 2008

Every four years, defenders of abortion rights proclaim that the fate of Roe v. Wade hangs on the outcome of the presidential election. ...more

October 6, 2008

The Supreme Court on Thursday embraced the long-disputed view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own a gun for personal use, ruling 5-4 that there is a constitutional right to keep a loaded handgun at home for self-defense. ...more

June 27, 2008

To the surprise of civil rights advocates, the Supreme Court on Tuesday strengthened workplace anti-discrimination laws, ruling that employees who say they were punished for complaining of bias can sue. ...more

May 28, 2008

The Supreme Court tossed itself off a big case Monday. The court couldn't take up an apartheid dispute involving some of the nation's largest companies because too many of the justices had investments or other ties with those corporate giants. ...more

May 13, 2008

By now the Tale of Lilly Ledbetter is beginning to sound like the Perils of Pauline or the Pre-Feminist Follies. ...more

May 3, 2008

The Supreme Court on Tuesday curbed the ability of investors who lost money through corporate fraud to sue businesses that may have helped facilitate the crime. ...more

January 16, 2008