Legal Battle Over Gay Marriage Hits The Supreme Court Tuesday
People have been lining up outside the U.S. Supreme Court for days hoping that they will be among the lucky ones to get a seat for Tuesday's historic arguments on gay marriage.As of now, gay marriage...
View ArticleRecord Number Of Amicus Briefs Filed In Same-Sex-Marriage Cases
This week's same-sex-marriage cases at the Supreme Court brought in a record number of friend-of-the-court briefs — 148 of them, according to the court, beating the previous record of 136 in the 2013...
View ArticleJustices Deeply Divided Over Same-Sex-Marriage Arguments
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View ArticleAfter Botched Executions, Supreme Court Weighs Lethal Drug Cocktail
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in three death penalty cases testing which drug combinations constitute cruel and unusual punishment when used to execute a convicted murderer by lethal...
View ArticleIt's Sotomayor V. Roberts In Supreme Court Death Penalty Drama
Lethal injection was the grim subject before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday. Specifically at issue: whether the drug combinations currently used to execute convicted murderers in some states are...
View ArticleSupreme Court: Police May Not Detain Traffic Violators Longer Than Necessary
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police may not detain a traffic violator longer than needed so as to allow police time to conduct a dog sniff for drugs.Just after midnight on March 27, 2012,...
View ArticleSame-Sex Marriage, In The Justices' Words
The U.S. Supreme Court directly confronts the question of gay marriage this week with a whopping 2 1/2 hours of oral argument, accompanied by plenty of prognostication afterward about the expected...
View ArticleJustices: Retailer Can't Refuse To Hire Someone Because She Wears Hijab
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Abercrombie & Fitch violated the nation's laws against religious discrimination when it refused to hire a Muslim teenager because she wore a...
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Jerusalem Passport Law
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View ArticleCourt Sides With President Over Congress In 'Jerusalem' Passport Dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday sided with the president in a long-running struggle with Congress over who controls recognition of foreign countries and what information about nationhood can be put on...
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High Court Sides With White House On Jerusalem Passport Dispute
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View ArticleHigh Court Sides With Government On Spousal Visa Denial
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the government's broad discretion to give only a cursory explanation for refusing to grant a visa to the spouse of an American citizen. The justices divided...
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Supreme Court Upholds Texas Ban Of Confederate Flag License Plates
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View ArticleSupreme Court Thwarts Efforts To Put Obamacare On Life Support
The U.S. Supreme Court handed the Obama administration a sweeping victory on Thursday, upholding the nationwide subsidies that are crucial to the president's health care law. By a 6-3 vote, the high...
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Supreme Court's Same-Sex Marriage Ruling: A Reaction
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View ArticleSupreme Court Changes Face Of Marriage In Historic Ruling
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View ArticleLethal Injection Ruling Draws Out Justices' Passionate Opinions
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday dealt a major blow to death penalty opponents, upholding the use of a controversial drug as part of a three-drug execution cocktail. The vote was 5-4, with unusually...
View ArticleSupreme Court Concludes Term With Death Penalty Ruling, Looks Ahead
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday issued the last of its opinions for this term — on the death penalty, anti-pollution regulations and the power of independent commissions to draw congressional and...
View ArticleLiberal Minority Won Over Conservatives In Historic Supreme Court Term
It was a historic term, a surprisingly liberal term — and a nasty term.That's the essence of the tea-leaf reading about the U.S. Supreme Court term that just concluded. Astonishingly — though the court...
View ArticleGinsburg: Liberal Justices Make A Point To Speak With One Voice
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Thursday provided an unusual peek behind the scenes at how the court did its work this term.It's true, she said, that the liberal justices tried to be...
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Judicial Differences Take Center Stage In 'Scalia V. Ginsburg'
Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: And now a reminder that anything can inspire an opera, even judicial differences, at least those of Supreme...
View ArticleHow To Hack Béarnaise, A Mother Of A French Sauce
This summer, NPR is getting crafty in the kitchen.
View ArticleA Rarity Reclaimed: Stolen Stradivarius Recovered After 35 Years
The denouement of a 35-year drama takes place Thursday at the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan. And I trust that my father, virtuoso violinist Roman Totenberg, who died three years ago, will be...
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Coda To A Cold Case: The Mystery Of The Stolen Stradivarius, Resolved
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View ArticleRuth Bader Ginsburg And Sandra Day O'Connor, 'Sisters In Law'
The title tells all: Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World.
View ArticleLaw Beyond Our Borders: Justice Breyer Is On A Mission
For Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, there was an "aha" Moment about the importance of law in the world.It was Sept. 11, 2001. He was in India with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, and they were...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court's New Term: Here's What To Watch
The United States Supreme Court opens a new term Monday, and, as always, many of the most contentious issues facing the country — including abortion, birth control coverage, public employee unions,...
View ArticleSupreme Court To Lawyers: Hold Your Own Place In Line
One of the more unattractive aspects of Washington life is the growth industry called line sitting. That is, rich lobbyists, lawyers and contractors pay someone to hold a place in line so the payer can...
View ArticleDeath Penalty Back At The Supreme Court In New Term
The death penalty reared its head again at the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday. It was the first time the court publicly considered a death case since last term, when a constitutional challenge to lethal...
View ArticleSupreme Court To Consider Resentencing For Juvenile Lifers
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a case that could determine the fate of more than 2,000 convicted juvenile murderers.In 2012, the high court struck down as unconstitutional state laws...
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