U.S. Supreme Court
- Holder spars with Issa over email release, says the lawmaker’s behavior is ‘shameful’
May 16, 2013, 08:54 am CDT
- Angelina Jolie’s op-ed on preventive mastectomy backs gene tests that are subject of SCOTUS case
May 15, 2013, 12:27 pm CDT
- Can children be protected from signs with photos of aborted fetuses? Protester seeks cert
May 15, 2013, 05:40 am CDT
- Few minorities and women argued Supreme Court cases this term
May 14, 2013, 08:27 am CDT
- SCOTUS rejects farmer’s ‘blame the bean’ defense and patent exhaustion claim
May 13, 2013, 10:04 am CDT
- Ginsburg: Court should have avoided broad-based decision in Roe v. Wade
May 13, 2013, 09:20 am CDT
- Citizens United, three other major Supreme Court cases are chronicled in new book
May 13, 2013, 05:40 am CDT
- Justice Ginsburg is close behind Judge Judy on most trusted list
May 8, 2013, 07:01 am CDT
- Why SCOTUS does not want to visit Asheville
May 8, 2013, 05:40 am CDT
- Alito and Roberts are the most pro-businesses justices since 1946, study finds
May 7, 2013, 06:05 am CDT
- Cert denial could lead to boost in federal judges’ pay
May 6, 2013, 01:50 pm CDT
- Justice Thomas: Any black president must be approved by ‘elites’
May 6, 2013, 07:32 am CDT
- Chemerinsky: Decoding the gay-marriage oral arguments
May 2, 2013, 08:30 am CDT
- Law prof Chemerinsky offers a syllabus on how the high court can polish its publicity
May 1, 2013, 03:30 am CDT
- LGBT lawyers join high court bar
May 1, 2013, 02:10 am CDT
- May 6, 1882: Congress passes first major law restricting immigration
May 1, 2013, 12:40 am CDT
- SCOTUS declines case on de facto life sentences for juveniles
Apr 30, 2013, 01:37 pm CDT
- Legal reporter Nina Totenberg answers the question: When have you been the only woman in the room?
Apr 30, 2013, 07:48 am CDT
- O’Connor: Maybe SCOTUS should have declined cert in Bush v. Gore
Apr 29, 2013, 11:43 am CDT
- SCOTUS rejects ‘sweeping’ privileges claim by out-of-staters denied FOIA records in Virginia
Apr 29, 2013, 10:04 am CDT
- How George Jones helped Justice Thomas before his wedding day
Apr 29, 2013, 07:39 am CDT
- Breyer has shoulder surgery after bicycle accident
Apr 29, 2013, 07:09 am CDT
- Pulitzer awarded for book on largely forgotten case defended by Thurgood Marshall
Apr 26, 2013, 06:00 am CDT
- SCOTUS mulls mixed-motive retaliation; Scalia sees no need to ‘psychoanalyze Congress’ for intent
Apr 25, 2013, 08:41 am CDT
- SCOTUS is often ‘simply irrelevant’ to daily work of trial courts, federal judge says
Apr 25, 2013, 06:25 am CDT
- SCOTUS rules for Jamaican immigrant fighting mandatory deportation after pot guilty plea
Apr 23, 2013, 11:11 am CDT
- Kagan makes Time magazine’s 100 most influential people list
Apr 19, 2013, 09:14 am CDT
- DWI suspects can’t automatically be subjected to blood tests without a warrant, SCOTUS rules
Apr 17, 2013, 12:44 pm CDT
- Human rights groups condemn Supreme Court decision tossing Alien Tort suit by Nigerian nationals
Apr 17, 2013, 11:02 am CDT
- Scalia calls Voting Rights Act ‘racial preferment,’ says Thomas led him to the right
Apr 17, 2013, 07:47 am CDT
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Mark Walsh is a freelance writer for the ABA Journal, covering the U.S. Supreme Court. He also writes for Education Week and has appeared as a commentator for C-SPAN, Court TV, Fox News, National Public Radio and BBC Radio.
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