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March 25, 2012
OPINION - Health care reform is perhaps the signature legislative achievement of the president's tenure. The court gutting the law…
March 6, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared in 1857 that blacks -- enslaved or…
February 24, 2012
OPINION - The fact that most African-Americans have not benefited from affirmative action programs in university admissions and does not…
February 21, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will once again confront the issue of race in university admissions in a case…
February 21, 2012
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (AP) - A police spokesman in the Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis says a 'person…
January 24, 2012
VIDEO - Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and its first African-American justice...
January 9, 2012
From Color Lines: Justice Thomas claimed he wasn't even aware that he had to report his wife's income and corrected…
January 1, 2012
OPINION - Now that 2011 has faded to black, let's explore some of the major issues President Barack Obama will…
December 15, 2011
OPINION - It seems not a month goes by without a politician or media figure from the Bill Clinton era…
November 26, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Conservative interest groups and Republican lawmakers want Justice Elena Kagan off the health care case. Liberals and…
November 16, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Twelve of the last 13 new death sentences obtained by the Texas Harris County District Attorney's Office…
November 15, 2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Sixty-six-year-old Reginald Brooks is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court. His execution is scheduled for 10…
November 15, 2011
TheGRIO REPORT - The Supreme Court, has decided to hear arguments next March on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's…
November 14, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court says it will hear arguments over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, setting up…
November 8, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - A conservative-leaning panel of US appellate judges on Tuesday upheld President Barack Obama's health care law as…
November 7, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether juveniles convicted of killing someone may be locked…
November 7, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from a Texas death row inmate who won…
October 17, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Prosecutors on Monday decided not to press charges against the group. They were arrested Sunday...
October 17, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Supreme Court spokeswoman says 19 people were arrested Sunday afternoon after they refused to leave the…
October 12, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The justices were to hear arguments Wednesday in a case they could use to rule on whether…