Justices Ready to Move to Heart of Health Case
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court plunged into debate Monday on the fate of the Obama administration's overhaul of the nation's health care system, and the justices gave every indication they will...
View ArticlePoll: Just a Third Favor Obama Health Care Law
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just a third of Americans back President Barack Obama's health care overhaul on which the Supreme Court is about to pass judgment, a new poll finds. But there is overwhelming support...
View ArticleHigh Court Upholds Obama Health Law by 5-4 Vote
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld virtually all of President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul, including the hotly debated core requirement that nearly every American...
View ArticleGovernment Secretly Obtains Associated Press Phone Records
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a...
View ArticleGinsburg Says Push for Voter ID Laws Predictable
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she's not surprised that Southern states have pushed ahead with tough voter identification laws and other measures since the Supreme Court freed them...
View ArticleSupreme Court Term Begins With Contentious Topics
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court is beginning a new term with controversial topics that offer the court's conservative majority the chance to move aggressively to undo limits on campaign...
View ArticleSupreme Court Wary of Campaign Contribution Limits
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to free big individual donors to give more money to political candidates in the court's first major campaign finance case since the justices...
View ArticleSupreme Court Will Take Up New Health Law Dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law, whether businesses can use religious objections to escape a requirement to...
View ArticleBattle Over Presidential Recess Appointments Heads to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans are squaring off at the Supreme Court over the president's power to temporarily fill high-level positions. The high court is hearing...
View ArticleHigh Court Climate Case Looks at EPA's Power
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Industry groups and Republican-led states are heading an attack at the Supreme Court against the Obama administration's sole means of trying to limit power-plant and factory...
View ArticleContraception Mandate Goes Before Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration and its opponents are renewing the Supreme Court battle over President Barack Obama's health care law in a case that pits the religious rights of employers...
View ArticleJustices Rap EPA, But Uphold Global Warming Rules
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court largely left intact Monday the Obama administration's only existing program to limit power plant and factory emissions of the gases blamed for global warming. But a...
View ArticleQuestions on Plaintiffs Unlikely to Derail Health Care Lawsuit
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite questions about four challengers' legal right to bring their lawsuit, the Supreme Court probably will not be deterred from deciding whether millions of people covered by the...
View ArticleJustices Appear to Favor Muslim Denied Job Over Headscarf
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Have you heard the one about the Sikh, the Hasidic Jew, the Muslim and the nun who walked into a job interview? Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito channeled his inner stand-up comic...
View ArticleSupreme Court to Hear Historic Same-Sex Marriage Arguments
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court is set to hear historic arguments in cases that could make same-sex marriage the law of the land. The justices are meeting Tuesday to offer the first public...
View ArticleAnother Challenge to Health Law Heads to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Opponents of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul are taking yet another challenge to the law to the Supreme Court, and say they will be back with more if this one fails. A...
View ArticleJustices Agree to Hear First Abortion Case Since 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court is taking on its first abortion case in eight years, a dispute over state regulation of abortion clinics. The justices said Friday they will hear arguments over a...
View ArticleHigh Court's Election-Year Lineup Rich in High-Profile Cases
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court's lineup of new cases is fit for an election year. Affirmative action, abortion and another look at the Obama health care law all are before the court, and they...
View ArticleJustices Hear Judicial-Bias Claim in Death-Row Case
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to rule that a Philadelphia district attorney-turned-state high court judge should not have taken part in the case of a prison inmate...
View ArticleSupreme Court to Close Out Term With 3 Big Cases
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court is set to close out its current term with opinions Monday in three remaining cases after a flurry of decisions last week. It's expected to be the justices' final...
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