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April 2, 2012

Obama confident health care law will be upheld

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama offered a firm defense of his health care law, saying Monday he remains confident…
April 2, 2012

Overturning 'Obamacare' could lead to single-payer

A ULCA law professor said that opponents of the 2010 Affordable Care Act might celebrate a victory if the Supreme…
March 29, 2012

Robert J. Zimmerman, Trayvon shooter's dad, a magistrate in Virginia court system

theGRIO REPORT - George Zimmerman's father served as a Supreme Court magistrate in the Virginia court system, which is subdivided…
March 29, 2012

Justices meet Friday to vote on health care case

WASHINGTON (AP) - While the rest of us have to wait until June, the justices of the Supreme Court will…
March 28, 2012

If 'Obamacare' ends, millions of blacks could remain without health insurance

theGRIO REPORT - A Supreme Court decision striking down President Obama's entire health care law would keep an 7 million…
March 27, 2012

Supreme Court sounds ready to strike down key plank of Obama's health care law

theGRIO REPORT - The Supreme Court's conservative justices cast repeated doubts about the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law…
March 27, 2012

Health care mandate will affect under 5 percent, study finds

The analysis said 98 percent of Americans would either be exempt from the mandate -- because of employer coverage, public…
March 25, 2012

Supreme Court health care hearings are critical for both Obama, millions of African-Americans

OPINION - Health care reform is perhaps the signature legislative achievement of the president's tenure. The court gutting the law…
March 6, 2012

Today in black history: The Dred Scott decision 155 years later

theGRIO REPORT - The Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared in 1857 that blacks -- enslaved or…
February 24, 2012

Why the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision could be disastrous for black students

OPINION - The fact that most African-Americans have not benefited from affirmative action programs in university admissions and does not…
February 21, 2012

Supreme Court take new look at affirmative action

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will once again confront the issue of race in university admissions in a case…
February 21, 2012

Man held for robbing Supreme Court Justice Breyer with machete

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (AP) - A police spokesman in the Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis says a 'person…
January 24, 2012

Today in black history: Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall dies

VIDEO - Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and its first African-American justice...
January 9, 2012

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…
January 1, 2012

Barack Obama's 10 biggest challenges in 2012

OPINION - Now that 2011 has faded to black, let's explore some of the major issues President Barack Obama will…
December 15, 2011

Revenge of the Clintonites: Black Democrats cling to their 'first black president'

OPINION - It seems not a month goes by without a politician or media figure from the Bill Clinton era…
November 26, 2011

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…
November 16, 2011

1 Texas county condemns 12 black men to death

theGRIO REPORT - Twelve of the last 13 new death sentences obtained by the Texas Harris County District Attorney's Office…
November 15, 2011

Ohio set to execute man who killed 3 sleeping sons

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

Clarence Thomas: The elephant in the room on health care reform

TheGRIO REPORT - The Supreme Court, has decided to hear arguments next March on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's…