Supreme Court doubts Defense of Marriage Act
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is indicating it could strike down the law that prevents legally married gay couples from receiving a range of federal benefits that go to married people...
Supreme Court casts serious doubt over future of affirmative action
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. Supreme Court justices sharply questioned the University of Texas' use of race in college admissions Wednesday in a case that could lead to new limits on affirmative action...
Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan and the battle over who gets to rule
From Color Lines: Justice Thomas claimed he wasn't even aware that he had to report his wife's income and corrected the form shortly after the matter was reported...
Thomas, Kagan asked to sit out health care case
WASHINGTON (AP) - Conservative interest groups and Republican lawmakers want Justice Elena Kagan off the health care case. Liberals and Democrats in Congress say it's Justice Clarence Thomas who should sit it out...
Obama picks more female, minority judges
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than 70 percent of Obama's confirmed judicial nominees during his first two years were "non-traditional," or nominees who were not white males...
Kagan sworn in as fourth woman ever on Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) - Kagan, a former Harvard Law School dean who most recently was solicitor general, was President Obama's choice to succeed retired John Paul Stevens...
Kagan celebrates with Obama, to be sworn in Sat.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The 50-year-old U.S. solicitor general, who won confirmation Thursday over Republican opposition, will be sworn in twice by Chief Justice John Roberts...
Why Kagan could be a crucial vote on key cases
OPINION - On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court...
Cornel West upset with President Obama
Dr. West has become increasingly vocal in his critique of Obama, and even went as far as to say that Obama treated him "like a cub scout"...
Senate to confirm Kagan as Supreme Court's 4th-ever woman
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans have harshly criticized Kagan, 50, as a political activist who would be unable to put aside her liberal views and render impartial decisions...
