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June 24, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has sent a Texas case on race-based college admissions back to a lower court…
June 24, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court stepped into an important constitutional dispute Monday between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans…
June 18, 2013
OPINION - Are U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia parting political ways?...
June 17, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take on another dispute involving race, deciding whether people must prove…
June 13, 2013
OPINION - It's 2013 and we've yet to truly overcome. Maybe it's not the best policy. But it is much…
June 11, 2013
OPINION - Would President Kennedy think that as a nation we have made enough progress on these issues over the…
June 11, 2013
NBC NEWS - As the Supreme Court prepares to once again weigh in on the issue of affirmative action, a…
June 5, 2013
OPINION - We might first remember that affirmative action has never been very popular – mostly because it is profoundly…
May 31, 2013
OPINION - Two critical voting rights opinions will be issued by the Supreme Court this term, which ends on June…
May 20, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the…
May 13, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — In roughly 75 hours of arguments at the Supreme Court since October, only one African-American lawyer appeared…
May 7, 2013
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court has indefinitely delayed Tuesday evening's scheduled execution of an inmate convicted of…
May 3, 2013
NBC NEWS - The famously taciturn Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the only current black member of the court, said…
April 30, 2013
OPINION - Twelve years after the controversial Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore, former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is…
April 29, 2013
NBC NEWS - Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor expressed doubts that the nation's highest court should have…
April 18, 2013
OPINION - The justice also criticized attempts to expand the number of minority groups protected by the federal government, noting…
April 5, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - On the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Attorney General Eric Holder challenged the Supreme Court…
April 1, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind?
March 29, 2013
OPINION - In August, we celebrate the 50th year of the March on Washington. I vote for us to march…
March 29, 2013
OPINION - Some say that silence speaks volumes. And in the case of Justice Clarence Thomas, that cliché just might…