WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is considering whether police may search cellphones found on people they arrest without first getting a warrant. The court’s latest foray into the issue of privacy in the digital age involves two cases being argued Tuesday that arose from searches of phones carried by a gang member and a […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to review the involuntary manslaughter conviction of Michael Jackson’s doctor, rejecting his lawyer’s petition without comment. The decision by the state’s highest court was the latest stop on Dr. Conrad Murray’s legal odyssey. A state appeals court upheld his conviction earlier this year and then […]
The Supreme Court dealt another blow to affirmative action programs Tuesday, upholding the right of states to ban racial preferences in university admissions. The decision came in a case brought by Michigan, where a voter-approved initiative banning affirmative action had been tied up in court for a decade. Seven other states — California, Florida, Washington, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court further loosened the reins on political giving Wednesday, ruling that big campaign donors can dole out money to as many candidates and political committees as they want as long as they abide by limits on contributions to each individual campaign. In a 5-4 vote won by conservative justices, the […]
A group of conservative Black pastors are working hard to kick Attorney General Eric Holder out of the White House after his recent remarks on…
A group of conservative Black pastors are working hard to kick Attorney General Eric Holder out of the White House after his recent remarks on…
It’s been quite the year in politics with some advances for certain causes and a litany of failures in the other. Boo hiss to the…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama‘s health care law: whether businesses may use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees. The justices said they will take up an issue that has divided the lower courts in the face of roughly […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court is allowing Texas to continue enforcing abortion restrictions that opponents say have led more than a third of the state’s clinics to stop providing abortions. The justices voted 5-4 Tuesday to leave in effect a provision requiring doctors who perform abortions in clinics to have admitting privileges […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is beginning a new term with controversial topics that offer the court’s conservative majority the chance to move aggressively to undo limits on campaign contributions, undermine claims of discrimination in housing and mortgage lending, and allow for more government-sanctioned prayer. Assuming the government shutdown doesn’t get in their way, […]
On the latest issue of The New Yorker Magazine, Sesame Street’s Bert and Ernie can be seen cuddled up on the couch watching the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. The picture titled “Moment of Joy” was illustrated by Jack Hunter, an Arizona based artist. Sesame Street has not officially […]
Voting rights advocates who celebrated after successfully beating back restrictive voting laws that some states tried to implement last year found themselves beat down by the Supreme Court’s ruling Tuesday that struck down a centerpiece of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. With its 5-4 ruling, the Supremes pressed Congress to update Section 4 of the […]
