Sep 12 Watch The Roberts Hearings Begin Less than three years after becoming a federal judge, John Roberts faced the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday in the first day of hearings to see if he should become the nation's top jurist. Two experts talk about what has been… Continue watching
Sep 09 Base Closing Commission Submits Report Amid Legal Wrangling By PBS News Hour The commission appointed to make base closing recommendations to President Bush submitted its report to the White House Thursday. Continue reading
Sep 09 Judge Orders Continued Detention of Suspected ‘Dirty Bomber’ By PBS News Hour In a major victory for the Bush administration, a federal appeals court decided Friday that the president has the authority to detain enemy combatants. Continue reading
Sep 07 National Leaders Mourn as Chief Justice is Buried By Admin, PBS News Hour President Bush and the remaining members of the Supreme Court led hundreds of mourners in honoring Chief Justice William Rehnquist as he was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday. Continue reading
Sep 07 California Legislature Approves Gay Marriages By PBS News Hour California lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday allowing same-sex marriages, becoming the first state in the nation to do so. The bill now heads to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk where it may face a veto. Continue reading
Sep 06 Senate Postpones Roberts Confirmation Hearings By Admin, PBS News Hour Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said his committee would push back confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts until Monday in light of this week's memorial services for Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Continue reading
Sep 05 President Bush Nominates John Roberts As Chief Justice By Admin, PBS News Hour President Bush on Monday nominated federal appellate Judge John Roberts to succeed William Rehnquist as chief justice of the Supreme Court. Roberts, who at one time served as Rehnquist's clerk, said he was "honored and humbled."… Continue reading
Sep 05 Watch Changes at the Supreme Court President Bush on Monday nominated John Roberts to succeed Chief Justice William Rehnquist as chief justice. A former clerk for Chief Justice Rehnquist joins a professor who has argued numerous cases before the court to consider the chief justice's legacy… Continue watching
Sep 04 Chief Justice William Rehnquist Dies at 80 By Admin, PBS News Hour Chief Justice William Rehnquist, whose conservative judicial philosophy guided the high court for nearly 20 years, succumbed to thyroid cancer Saturday evening. He was 80 years old. Continue reading
Sep 04 Biography: Chief Justice William Rehnquist By Admin, PBS News Hour Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who steered the high court through groundbreaking legal and political disputes as well as guided it through a docket-full of potentially pivotal and controversial cases in recent court terms, died on Sept. 3, 2005. Continue reading