Election could shape Supreme Court
(AP) - With four justices in their seventies, odds are good that whoever is elected president in November will have a chance to fill at least one Supreme Court seat....
Divisive voter ID law goes before Pa. high court
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Pennsylvania's Supreme Court justices are hearing arguments over whether a new law requiring each voter to show valid photo identification poses an unnecessary threat to the right to vote...
National Association of Basketball Coaches back affirmative action case
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The National Association of Basketball Coaches has told the U.S. Supreme Court it believes university officials should be able to continue taking race into consideration when deciding who gets to enroll in their schools...
Obama aggressively defends affirmative action
theGRIO REPORT - Obama and his administration have taken a strong stand in favor of race-based affirmative action this week, even as some Democrats and liberals are urging a shift to class-based instead of racial preferences...
White House lobbies Supreme Court on affirmative action
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration on Monday threw its support behind the University of Texas' use of race as a standard in its admissions policies...
Supreme Court allows execution of Texas inmate with low IQ
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the Tuesday evening execution of a Texas death row inmate whose lawyers say is ineligible for the death penalty because of his low IQ...
NAACP backs 'Stand Your Ground' defense for Georgia prisoner
John McNeil has been in prison for five and half years after being found guilty on murder charges....
Ted Nugent: US might be better off if 'the South won the Civil War'
In op-ed in opposition to the Supreme Court's decision to uphold health care reform, the controversial musician muses about whether or not America would be better off if 'the South won the Civil War'...
In John Roberts can we trust?
OPINION - The jury is still out on Roberts, but before we consider him a new reliable swing vote or a conservative-turned-liberal justice, consider the evidence that this was nothing less than a political move on his part...
Was Clarence Thomas the Supreme leaker?
theGRIO REPORT - Court watchers are buzzing about a CBS News report that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts changed his vote on whether to strike down the individual mandate, or even the entire Affordable Care Act...
