In cases involving an act of Congress, such as the Voting Rights Act, the Court pays great deference to findings of facts by Congress. Congress is, after all, the peoples' elected representatives; and, it can be changed.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Antonin Scalia are ideological opposites, yet they share a pastime. They like to hunt toget...

Of the many dozens of predictions I had heard, many foresaw a 5-4 vote, but I know of no one who expected a 5-4 vote in favor of the individual mandate that would align Chief Justice John Roberts alone with the Court's four more liberal justices.

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday morning denied a conservative watchdog group's request to argue for Justice Elena Kagan's recusal from the h...

Prodded by host Mark Green, the women would have both voted to confirm Kagan but they split sharply on whether today's Birthers are no worse than W's detractors were. The women, however, agreed that Spitzer was terrific.

August in Washington means the beginning of the official "silly season" of politics. This is because Congress takes the whole month off, and politica...

During this time of celebration, we have concrete evidence of how much progress the country has made and can make. But we cannot lose sight of how much more remains to be achieved.

WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan Thursday as the Supreme Court's 112th justice and the fourth woman in its history, granting a life...

WASHINGTON — Democrats and Republicans presented dueling portraits Tuesday of Elena Kagan and the Supreme Court she's seeking to join at the sta...

WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson says he'll vote against confirming Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice. The Nebraskan's announcement...

WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe says she plans to vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice. The Maine lawmaker's annou...

WASHINGTON — Republican Senator Susan Collins said Friday that she would vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice, breaking with h...

WASHINGTON — Elena Kagan, a Supreme Court nominee without judicial experience, has suggested in writings and speeches over a quarter-century tha...

WASHINGTON — Pushing toward an election-year Supreme Court confirmation vote, a polarized Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday approved Elena Kaga...

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Penn.) has decided to support Elena Kagan's Supreme Court nomination, writing in a US Today editorial Thursday morning that she ...

WASHINGTON — Conservative lawyers and academics are voicing support for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, praise that could soften criticism fr...

WASHINGTON — As Democrats pressed Monday for an early August vote to confirm Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the next Supreme Court justice, sk...

Obama, after gaining a bit in his average approval ratings in May, slipped back in June. But the reversal was slight, continuing a five-month streak of amazingly stable numbers.

WASHINGTON — One talent Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan displayed in her career climb could create unique ethics questions for her as a justic...

As a college student at Princeton in the late 1970's and early 1980's, Elena Kagan established herself as a committed academic and a passionate politi...

Hearings are underway to investigate the background of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, but who's investigating the backgrounds of the witnesses? H...

WASHINGTON — The National Rifle Association is opposing Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court and warning senators that it will take the...

Let's just consider purely Elena Kagan's job that she is being disparaged for: Elena Kagan clerked for a Supreme Court Justice. That's it. Period.

The Supreme Court has yanked the rug out from under the argument that Kagan shouldn't have had the option to bar military recruiters from campus while dean of Harvard law school. Today's ruling affirms that right for universities.

Can you imagine a trial in which the judge commenced the proceedings by announcing their verdicts and then calling for the submission of evidence? The Senate hearing on a judicial nominee is not a trial, but it certainly is akin to one.