CAPITAL CULTURE: Sotomayor adds celebrity to court
AP - 5 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings.

Court won't hear complaint about Redskins name
AP - 6 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a group of Native Americans who think the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins football team is offensive.

Court turns down student over religious speech
AP - 6 days ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a student who complained that high school officials violated her constitutional rights when they turned off her microphone during her religion-tinged graduation speech.

Retired Justice O'Connor's husband dies
AP - 1 week ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - John J. O'Connor III, the husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, has died.

Gitmo detainee challenges judge who halted case
AP - 1 week ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - A man from Tajikistan seeking his freedom from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is challenging a practice among federal judges here who are short-circuiting the cases of some long-time detainees.

High court looks at life sentences for juveniles
AP - 2 weeks ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - A seemingly divided Supreme Court wrestled Monday with whether teenagers can be locked away forever for their crimes. The question arose in two cases involving Florida men who are serving life prison terms with no chance of parole for crimes they committed as teenagers. Their lawyers argue that the sentences for people so young are cruel and unusual, in violation of the Constitution, because young people have greater capacity to change.

Court worries about stifling prosecutors
AP - 3 weeks ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed worried that allowing people to sue prosecutors who fabricate evidence to win convictions might chill other prosecutions — even if those prosecutors are doing their jobs correctly and honestly.

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Justices split on Series
AP - 3 weeks ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - He's a right-leaning New Jersey native with a lifelong love of the Phillies. She's a liberal New Yorker who grew up near Yankee Stadium. They're eying each other warily these days from opposite ends of the Supreme Court bench.

DC sniper asks Supreme Court to block execution
AP - 3 weeks ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorneys for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 dead, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to stop his execution.

Justices seem unwilling to get involved in fees
AP - 3 weeks ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Several Supreme Court justices seemed unsympathetic Monday to calls for the courts to get involved in reining in what investors are calling "excessive" fees on mutual funds, a popular investment vehicle for millions of Americans.