US MINTS CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL DOLLAR
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer speaks as the U.S. Mint launches the Chief Justice John Marshall Silver Dollar at the Supreme Court on May 4, 2005, in Washington. Behind Breyer is Supreme Court Historical Society President Peter Jones. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was hospitalized with a fractured shoulder after a bicycle accident in Washington, a court spokeswoman said Saturday.
The Supreme Court Tuesday ruled foreign buyers of books, movies and other products can resell them in the United States over the copyright owners' objections.
The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday unanimously made it harder for a plaintiff to remove a case from a federal court to a more favorable state court.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday a civil rights group does not have standing to challenge the government interception of foreign communications.
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to review a Texas drug case but two justices said they were appalled by the racist language of a prosecutor.
An earthquake of sorts struck Capitol Hill last week, though many working in that seat of government were unaware of it. The U.S. Supreme Court announced that William Suter, retired Army major general, was stepping down after 22 years as clerk.
As the burials of 20 first graders and six of their teachers and caretakers sadly play out in grief-stricken Newtown, Conn., some powerful voices are calling for a look at a possible connection between the violent video games favored by young males and violent acts. But the chances of courtroom survival for any laws trying to curb such games are not good.
The public and the media are largely ignoring the phenomenon but hundreds of millions of dollars, much of it in secret money, are driving the the final negative days of the U.S. presidential election, and in this arena, Karl Rove is wearing the big boy pants.
With President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney fighting for every vote as the bitter U.S. presidential election campaign races through its final weeks, Democrats appear to be winning in at least one vital arena: Republican sponsored voter ID laws are falling like flies in the courts.
With polls showing President Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a desperately close race for the presidency, will voter identification laws suppress the Democratic vote and cost Obama the election, or will they simply cut down on voter fraud as Republicans contend?
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