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Gay Rights Spotlight Shifts Back To Obama

Reuters | Posted 04.14.2013 | Politics

(Repeats with no changes to text) * Activists want executive order on federal contracts * White House prefers push for l...

Forgetting the Supreme Court: A Safari Through Kenya

Lisa McElroy | Posted 03.27.2013 | Travel
Lisa McElroy

It was the first time in many years that I had failed to be on my computer at the very moment that a major Court event had occurred. The students and professors and bloggers and journalists with whom I worked had been worried about me. Why wasn't I online? Because, I was in Kenya.

Alito Takes On Critics

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 01.17.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is defending the court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case that helped fuel hundreds of ...

Another Supreme Court Term Kicks Off Monday

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 11.29.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — When last we saw the chief justice of the United States on the bench, John Roberts was joining with the Supreme Court's liberals in...

High Stakes For Those With HIV As Supreme Court Considers Health Care Law

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 06.25.2012 | Politics

NEW YORK — For many HIV-positive Americans, and those who advocate on their behalf, these are days of anxious waiting as the Supreme Court ponde...

Mike Sacks

Arizona's Controversial Immigration Law Arriving At Supreme Court This Week

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.22.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the federal government's challenge to the Grand Canyon state's contro...

Mike Sacks

Supreme Court OKs Suspicionless Strip Searches For New Jail Inmates

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.02.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday decided that jails may perform suspicionless strip searches on new inmates regardless of the gravity of thei...

Congress Gets Rough Treatment At Supreme Court

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.31.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court left little doubt during last week's marathon arguments over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul that i...

WATCH: Supreme Court Health Reform Case Questions -- And Answers

Posted 04.11.2012 | Politics

Legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act finally come to the Supreme Court on Monday, when the public will learn for the first time what the justic...

Mike Sacks

WATCH: What Happens To Health Care Loser In Supreme Court?

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 03.22.2012 | Politics

Supporters and opponents of the Affordable Care Act have spent more than two years battling in federal courts and for public opinion over the constitu...

Jeffrey Young

The Supreme Court Can't Kill All of Health Care Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 03.30.2012 | Business

Health care reform can't be stopped by the Supreme Court. Next week the high court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable ...

Mike Sacks

Health Care Case Reaches Supreme Court: Courting the Conservatives (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 03.21.2012 | Politics

With the U.S. Supreme Court's four-justice liberal bloc widely expected to uphold the individual mandate in the health care case it will hear next wee...

Mike Sacks

'New And Dangerous Power': Supreme Court To Judge Health Care Mandate

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 03.20.2012 | Politics

On Tuesday next week, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's "individual mandate," which re...

Mike Sacks

WATCH: As Supreme Court Considers Challenge To Health Care Law, What's At Stake?

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 03.19.2012 | Politics

Two years after the president signed the Affordable Care Act, the justices of the Supreme Court are poised to weigh in with their opinions about the f...

Supreme Court Looking At NY Rent Control

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 03.05.2012 | New York

Do you still think it's totally unfair that that West Village dude pays $331.76 a month for that beautiful four-bedroom apartment? Well, it turns out ...

Mike Sacks

Supreme Court Backs Away From Texas Firestorm

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 01.10.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Time and timing was of the essence Monday afternoon during Supreme Court oral argument over which legislative maps Texas may use in its ...

City Council Says Corporations Are Not People

Posted 01.05.2012 | New York

The New York City Council symbolically passed a resolution Wednesday opposing "corporate personhood." Resolution 1172 formally expressed disapproval o...

Mike Sacks

Montana Supreme Court Brushes Aside 'Citizens United'

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 01.04.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Montana Supreme Court has put itself on a collision course with the U.S. Supreme Court by upholding a century-old state law that ban...

Mike Sacks

NYC Landlord To Supreme Court: The Rent Is Too Damn Low

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.09.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A New York City landlord has taken his fight against the city's rent control laws up to the Supreme Court, where at least one justice ap...

Mike Sacks

Justices Weigh Guns, Gangs And Broad Search Warrants

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.05.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court grappled with guns, gangs and a detective's good faith in executing a search warrant at oral argument Monday morning. ...

Mike Sacks

Justices Consider The Limits Of Privacy On Public Sidewalks

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 01.08.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The justices appear poised to go big or go home when it comes to protecting privacy rights against digital intrusion. Antoine Jones, ...

Mike Sacks

Passports Bring Israel-Palestine Conflict To The Supreme Court

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 01.07.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court had a taste of Middle East conflict on Monday morning, when the justices were urged to settle a spat over the status o...

Mike Sacks

Supreme Court May Decide in Mid-November To Hear Health Care Cases

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.26.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court justices will consider whether to rule on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act at their conference on Thurs...

Mike Sacks

Supreme Court To Rule On Corporate Personhood For Crimes Against Humanity

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.17.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday morning agreed to hear a case over whether corporations can be sued in federal courts for human rights viola...

Mike Sacks

Justice Clarence Thomas Asked Last In Crime Cases

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.15.2011 | Politics

Justice Clarence Thomas was sworn in to the Supreme Court on Oct. 22, 1991, and for the rest of the '90s could be counted on to chime in a few times a...