May 09 Reports: President Obama to Name Elena Kagan as Supreme Court Pick By Maureen Hoch The Associated Press and major news networks reported late Sunday that President Obama plans to nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. The AP cited an unnamed person familiar with the… Continue reading
Apr 28 Supreme Court Rules WWI Cross Can Remain in California Federal Park By Quinn Bowman A divided Supreme Court ruled today that a Latin cross honoring American soldiers who served in World War I can remain in a federal park in California. In writing for the plurality of the court, Justice Anthony Kennedy… Continue reading
Apr 28 Watch High Court Hears Privacy Case, Allows Cross to Stand in Mojave The Supreme Court ruled to allow a cross to remain on government land and heard arguments on privacy rights for people who sign political petitions. Ray Suarez talks to Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal for more on both… Continue watching
Apr 21 Watch Obama Begins to Scrutinize Potential Supreme Court Nominees As President Barack Obama reaches out to potential replacements for Justice John Paul Stevens on the bench, Gwen Ifill gets three points of view from legal experts on the politics behind the president's second nomination to the Supreme Court and… Continue watching
Apr 20 Supreme Court Strikes Down Law on Animal Cruelty Videos By Quinn Bowman The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 1999 federal law banning videos of animal cruelty violates the First Amendment's free speech protections. The court voted 8-1 to overturn the law. Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal explained the… Continue reading
Apr 20 Watch Supreme Court Overturns Law Banning Videos Depicting Animal Cruelty The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a federal law banning videos of animal cruelty, saying it violates the right to free speech. Margaret Warner talks to Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal for more on what the ruling… Continue watching
Apr 19 Marcia Coyle: Supreme Court Weighs Privacy Limits of Texting at Work By Quinn Bowman Marcia Coyle, NewsHour regular and Washington correspondent for the National Law Journal, spoke with us Monday afternoon about oral arguments heard before the Supreme Court earlier in the day. Here is an excerpt of our conversation. On Monday's NewsHour,… Continue reading
Apr 19 Watch High Court Considers Free Speech on College Campuses, Workplace Privacy Limits Judy Woodruff talks to Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal about two major cases before the Supreme Court. The first is a clash over free-speech rights of religious groups on college campuses and the second deals with text messages… Continue watching
Apr 16 Watch Shields and Brooks on Changing Political Landscapes in Florida, U.S. Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the week, including the competitive GOP Senate primary in Florida, whether anyone will run as a moderate this year and the outcome of the Washington nuclear summit. Continue watching
Apr 15 Terabytes of Tweets Headed to Library of Congress More than 6 billion public tweets -- the entire 'corpus' of the micro-blogging site Twitter -- are headed to the Library of Congress in the next few months. Martha Anderson, the director of the Library's national digital information… Continue reading