Topic: Justice Anthony Kennedy

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A group of 20 Democrats in Congress want the U.S. Justice Department to investigate whether Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas violated ethics rules.

The U.S. Supreme Court term that ended last week will go down in the history books as a triumph for the First Amendment, sometimes at the cost of pain for grieving families, and the ongoing emergence of Justice Anthony Kennedy as one of the most powerful people in U.S. government.

An Indian nation can't sue over the same issue in two courts, even if the courts individually couldn't provide full relief, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.

Affirmative action may be living on borrowed time: At the U.S. Supreme Court, it comes down to the math.

Now that a federal judge has blocked of California's voter-enacted ban on same sex marriages, his injunction is expected to be favorably viewed by the federal appeals court, where the case is headed now.

The U.S. Supreme Court arguably affects the lives of average Americans far more than the White House or Capitol Hill where power seems to dissipate in partisan rancor and political reality.

Like the lights on an onrushing train, the U.S. Supreme Court is hurtling toward the end of its term and perhaps a new era.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday a war memorial cross in California can stay put since the remote public land is being transferred to private ownership.

The legal struggle in California involving the state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage eventually will make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.