Apr 07 Supreme Court Upholds Cross Burning Ban By Admin, PBS News Hour The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday to uphold a state law banning cross burning carried out with the intent to intimidate, ruling that the act is an instrument of terror and not a form of expression protected by the First… Continue reading
Apr 01 Supreme Court Tackles Debate Over Affirmative Action By Admin, PBS News Hour The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in two highly anticipated University of Michigan affirmative action cases that may prove to be the most important civil rights debate before the high court in decades. Continue reading
Mar 19 Justice Scalia Bans Media Coverage From Free Speech Ceremony By Admin News associations on Wednesday protested Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's request to ban news coverage from an awards ceremony in his honor at the City Club of Cleveland. Continue reading
Mar 05 Court Upholds “Three Strikes,” Sex Offender Registry Rulings By Admin The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday to uphold California's controversial "three strikes" rule which mandates an extended prison sentence for defendants convicted of three serious or violent felonies. Continue reading
Mar 05 Watch Supreme Court Watch: Registering Sex Offenders The Supreme Court ruled to require sex offenders to register with the state and keep in touch with authorities and to uphold California's "three strikes" sentencing law. Ray Suarez speaks with Jan Crawford Greenburg of The Chicago Tribune about the… Continue watching
Mar 03 Supreme Court Hears Court-Ordered Medication Case By Admin The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case testing whether courts can force a mentally ill defendant to take anti-psychotic drugs in order to become competent to stand trial. Continue reading
Feb 26 Supreme Court Rules for Protesters in Civil Disobedience Case By Admin The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that anti-abortion activists did not break federal racketeering and extortion laws in their protests outside abortion clinics, ending an injunction that barred the groups from interfering in clinic business. Continue reading
Feb 25 Supreme Court Sides With Inmate’s Claims of Jury Racial Bias By Admin The Supreme Court sided Tuesday with an African American inmate on Texas' death row who claimed that prosecutors used racial practices to stack the jury in his capital murder trial with whites. Continue reading
Jan 15 Pres. Bush Calls Affirmative Action Policy Unconstitutional By Admin President Bush entered the debate over affirmative action Wednesday, calling a University of Michigan Law School program to encourage minority acceptance in college "fundamentally flawed" and unconstitutional. Continue reading
Jan 15 Supreme Court Upholds Copyright Extension Law By Admin The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a 1998 law allowing copyright holders and entertainment companies to retain their rights to books, music, movies and other creative materials an additional 20 years. Continue reading