In a move that will surprise gay activists and liberals, a spokesperson for Focus on the Family, a top religious right group, tells me that his organi...
Vanity Fair | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
I'd like to see President Obama appoint Brandeis University law professor Anita Hill. She's reasonably young, smart, and--after her ordeal testifying ...
Above The Law | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
ATL readers, there are many names being bandied about as potential nominees for the Supreme Court. We've narrowed the list to nine people who have bee...
CNN | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
A day before news broke that Supreme Court Justice David Souter plans to announce his retirement, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus wrote President Ob...
The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
Diane Wood, a 14-year veteran of the Chicago 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, was an early name tossed into the ring as a possible Obama Supreme Court no...
The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics
Seth Waxman, one of the names on the short list for President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee once Justice David Souter retires in June, wa...
AFP | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (AFP) -- The US Supreme Court will hear a case Wednesday on whether cabinet-level officials could be held accountable for controversial tac...
Los Angeles Times | David G. Savage | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics
Reporting from Washington -- Thousands convicted of a misdemeanor for threatening or assaulting a spouse or girlfriend could once again own guns becau...
Robyn Blumner | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
The Second Amendment has always put me in a quandary, but Scalia's opinion was not an honest attempt at sorting it out. It was a sophistical, political decision of just the type that he rails against.
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
Judges, with entirely one-sided ruling records, are asked, during Supreme Court confirmation hearings, whether they can be impartial. They're not impartial. It's not even close.
Adam Freedman | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
So much for Scalia's much-vaunted "originalism," which advocates reading the Constitution as it would have been understood at the time of the Founding.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
While the gun lobby may crack open that bottle of champagne, this is a victory that thrives in theory, but one that, in practice, can only be condemned.
Joyce Lee Malcolm | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
A government that cannot protect people should not deprive them of the right to protect themselves -- and the the D.C. gun ban did just that.
James Jacobs | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
Today's Heller decision marks the biggest triumph so far for gun rights advocates. It establishes what was for so long denied, and the the gun control debate will never be the same.
Sanford Levinson | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
If Scalia and Stevens were competent historians, then it might be worth reading what they write. But they are not. Both offer selective readings of history to support what seem to be pre-determined positions.
AP | PETE YOST | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the "millionaire's amendment," a campaign finance law intended to level the field for Hou...
Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
The Supreme Court's decision this morning to ban use of the death penalty in cases of child rape is consistent with its historical position on the issue.
The Huffington Post | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
Mickey Kaus notes: "John McCain met privately with some Clinton supporters in the diehard group Party Unity My Ass, and tried to wobble his way into t...
The Plumline | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics