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November 9, 2009
RICHMOND, Viriginia (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday's scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen…
September 30, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether strict local and state gun control laws violate the…
August 17, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ordered on Monday a new hearing for death row inmate Troy Davis...
August 6, 2009
The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor Thursday as the first Hispanic justice on the U.S.Supreme Court.The vote was 68-31 for Sotomayor,…
July 30, 2009
The U.S. Supreme Court should decide whether a reputed Ku Klux Klansman should have been tried on a kidnapping charge…
July 28, 2009
The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to approve US Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice...
July 16, 2009
Today, two firefighters from New Haven, Connecticut step from the audience to the witness table. They will testify against Sonia…
July 16, 2009
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) African Americans who are just as suspicious of white liberals as they are of conservatives
July 15, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor declined repeatedly at Senate confirmation hearings Wednesday to disclose her views on…
July 15, 2009
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor talks with Senate Judiciary Committee members Sen. John Cornyn, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (AP Photo/Charles
July 14, 2009
President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, is on the hotseat before a Senate committee during today's confirmation hearings
July 13, 2009
A Senate panel began confirmation hearings Monday for President Barack Obama's choice for the U.S. Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, who…
June 29, 2009
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race,…
June 22, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled narrowly in a challenge to the landmark Voting Rights Act, exempting a
June 18, 2009
MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday that convicts have no constitutional right
June 12, 2009
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A reputed Ku Klux Klansman convicted of kidnapping two black men 43 years after the abductions
June 11, 2009
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) The Republicans are losing their minds. How else to explain the transparency in their vicious attacks on
May 27, 2009
NEW YORK – Rev. Al Sharpton today endorsed Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s pick for Supreme Court Justice. During a news
May 26, 2009
WASHINGTON – President Obama has nominated Federal Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the United States Supreme Court.