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January 30, 2010
OPINION - The president's oratorical performances this past week provided us with a refreshing glimpse of the new Barack Obama…
January 22, 2010
OPINION - The 5-4 ruling on campaign financing was arguably the most un-American and destructive decision in recent US history...
January 19, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a court ruling that invalidated the former Black Panther's death…
November 30, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a California death row inmate who was convicted in…
November 19, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) A group of black Connecticut firefighters hopes to block promotions for white firefighters who won a…
November 18, 2009
FREDERICK, Maryland (AP) - More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming…
November 13, 2009
VIDEO - This week on the Barbershop Buzz: Is it constitutional for juveniles to serve life sentences without parole for…
November 10, 2009
OPINION - Juveniles should not be tried and treated as adults in the criminal justice system, no matter how "adult-like"…
November 9, 2009
VIDEO - In the United States Supreme Court, arguments about the constitutionality of jailing juveniles for life without parole for…
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