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
Apr 13 Supreme Court Nomination Comes at Critical Time for Obama Agenda By Kwame Holman Politico White House Editor Craig Gordon spoke with us Tuesday about how President Obama may be forming his strategy around a replacement nominee for the retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. According to Gordon, the White… Continue reading
Apr 13 Marcia Coyle Answers Your Questions on the Retirement of Justice Stevens By Lea Winerman Regular NewsHour analyst Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal took your questions about the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and about who President Obama might be considering to replace him. Read her answers below,… Continue reading
Apr 09 Looking Back on Stevens’ 34 Years on the Supreme Court By Chris Amico In almost 35 years on the Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens has handed down, and dissented from, some of the biggest legal decisions of the last generation. Stevens began his long tenure as one of the court's moderates,… Continue reading
Apr 09 Reaction Round-Up: Justice Stevens Retires By News Desk Here's a roundup of reactions to the news that Justice John Paul Stevens will retire from the Supreme Court: Chief Justice John Roberts of the United States: "Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has earned the gratitude and admiration… Continue reading
Apr 09 Ask Marcia Coyle Your Questions About Stevens’ Retirement By Lea Winerman Now that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, 89, has announced his plan to retire at the end of this court term after more than 30 years on the bench, the usual round of questions are emerging rapid fire:… Continue reading
Apr 09 Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens to Retire By Jason Breslow Updated 2:25 pm ET Justice John Paul Stevens, a mainstay of the Supreme Court's liberal wing, announced Friday he will retire, ending a 34-year tenure on the High Court and setting the stage for what is likely to be a… Continue reading