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
Jan 15 Watch Supreme Court Watch: Federal Medical Leave Act Gwen Ifill discusses the debate over the Federal Medical Leave Act with the Supreme Court reporter for The Chicago Tribune. Continue watching
Jan 14 Watch Managing Health Care The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case questioning whether states can force HMOs to offer a wider choice of doctors. Ray Suarez discusses the case with a Supreme Court reporter for The Chicago Tribune. Continue watching
Jan 01 Supreme Court History By Admin, PBS News Hour "It is relatively easy to describe in one or two sentences the role of the Supreme Court of the United States in our nation's system of government," Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote in his book, "The Supreme Court."… Continue reading
Dec 11 Supreme Court Hears Challenge to Virginia Cross-Burning Law By Admin The Supreme Court will now decide how far states can go to prevent cross-burning and whether the act legally constitutes intimidation or if it is a form of constitutionally protected speech. Continue reading
Nov 18 Watch Judging Judges A discussion about how President Bush's judicial nominees will fare in the new Republican-controlled U.S. Senate. Continue watching