The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a challenge to overturn Wisconsin's voter identification law. While Wisconsin has an election scheduled in April, the state's voter identification law will be implemented on a later date.
If the U.S. Supreme Court had followed Anthony Kennedy's lead three years ago, Obamacare's individual mandate would have been history - and with it the president's ambitious health care reform. But this time, things could be different.
President Barack Obama revealed he does not anticipate the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down a provision of the Affordable Care Act that would eliminate health coverage for millions of Americans.
Abercrombie & Fitch Co is set to appear before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to defend itself from allegations that one of its retail stores refused to hire a teenager who wore traditional Muslim garb.
The head of the Alabama court system is using a states' rights argument that conjures up "ghosts of slavery, the Civil War and the battle against desegregation" in his fight to stop same-sex marriage in the state. Chief Justice Roy Moore instructed probate judges to defy federal court rulings and refuse to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
Officials in Mobile County, Alabama, on Thursday complied with an order from a federal judge compelling them to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused a request by Alabama's attorney general on Monday to keep same-sex marriages on hold until it decides later this year whether laws banning gay matrimony violate the U.S. Constitution.
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide on the issue of same-sex marriage later on this year. The U. S. Supreme Court will decide on the issue of same-sex marriage later on this year.
An Oklahoma man on Thursday became the first inmate to be put to death after the state's botched execution of Clayton Lockett last year. State prison officials in McAlester declared Charles Warner dead at 7:28 p.m.; it took 18 minutes to carry out the sentence.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a petition Wednesday to ask the United States Supreme Court to review a decision that upheld Wisconsin's voter ID law.
For the first time, young Arizona immigrants known as "dreamers" will be permitted to get driver's licenses now that the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's executive order which blocked young immigrants with legal status from getting a license.
The United States Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear two cases, one dealing with Confederate flag license plates from Texas and the other dealing with mentally ill death row inmates.
Over a dozen national leaders of the conservative movement have come together to script and sign a letter to Tex. Governor Rick Perry, asking him to commute the upcoming death sentence of a severely mentally ill inmate to a life sentence, if agreed upon by the State Board of Pardons and Paroles.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent a coronary catheterization procedure Friday morning. The 81-year-old jurist had "experienced discomfort during routine exercise" on Tuesday evening. She had been hospitalized after doctors discovered a blockage in her left coronary artery.
On Wednesday, Nov. 12, the Supreme Court sanctioned same-sex marriages in Kansas to continue, making it the 33rd state in which gay unions are permitted and lifting a provisional deferment issued two days prior by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Oct. 31 is Halloween Day, but it's also the last day for early voting in Texas. Public opinion of the state's controversial voter ID laws are also positive than negative despite claims "hundreds of thousands" of voters will be disenfranchised from voting.
In a rare Saturday morning ruling, the Supreme Court decided that Texas can enforce a controversial voter ID law during the upcoming midterm elections in November.
