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• Calif. gay marriage argument at high court Tuesday

  March 26, 2013 8:44 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is wading into the fight over same-sex marriage at a time when public opinion is shifting rapidly in favor of permitting gay and lesbian couples to wed, but 40 states don't allow it. The court's first major examination of gay rights in 10 years... more »

• Jesse Jackson: Voting rights continue to be threatened

  March 3, 2013 12:36 PM

  SELMA, Ala. (AP) - Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson says current threats to voting rights make this year's Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Alabama more than a commemoration. The annual event taking place Sunday in Selma commemorates the beating of voting rights marchers on "Bloody Sunday" in 1965 as they began... more »

• OBAMACARE: States' choices set up national health experiment

  February 16, 2013 11:35 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is unfolding as a national experiment with American consumers as the guinea pigs: Who will do a better job getting uninsured people covered, the states or the feds? The nation is about evenly split between states that decided by Friday's deadline... more »

• Roe v Wade: After 40 years, deep divide is legacy

  January 19, 2013 12:43 PM

  NEW YORK (AP) - By today's politically polarized standards, the Supreme Court's momentous Roe v. Wade ruling was a landslide. By a 7-2 vote on Jan. 22, 1973, the justices established a nationwide right to abortion. Forty years and roughly 55 million abortions later, however, the ruling's legacy is the... more »

• Colo. Supreme Court abandons requiring crime proof

  January 14, 2013 11:30 AM

  DENVER (AP) - The Colorado Supreme Court is abandoning a rule that prosecutors prove a crime occurred as long as prosecutors prove a confession is trustworthy. The rule requiring proof has been in force for more than a hundred years. In a ruling Monday, the court overturned the conviction of... more »

• On average the Rolling Stones older than US Supreme Court

  November 26, 2012 8:34 PM

  NEW YORK (AP) - The Supreme Court used to be called Nine Old Men. That's nothing compared to the ageless Rolling Stones. The justices on average are the kid brothers and sisters of the forever young rock n' rollers. The average age for the four living members of The Rolling... more »

• GOP House votes again to kill health law

  July 11, 2012 7:15 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Pressing an election-year point, Republicans pushed yet another bill through the House on Wednesday to repeal the nation's two-year-old health care law, a maneuver that forced Democrats to choose between President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement and a public that is persistently skeptical of its value. The... more »

• High court protects Secret Service agents from incident in CO

  June 4, 2012 11:01 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has ruled that Secret Service agents are shielded from a lawsuit filed by a man they arrested after a confrontation with then-Vice President Dick Cheney. The 8-0 decision Monday comes in a case that began with the arrest of Steven Howards following a chance... more »

• Chilean court approves controversial dam project

  April 4, 2012 9:35 PM

  SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Chile's Supreme Court has rejected challenges to a hydroelectric dam project filed by environmental groups. The court's ruling Wednesday upholds an earlier decision by an appeals court in the southern city of Puerto Montt that the project doesn't violate the constitutional rights of those who challenged... more »

• People line up to watch Court argument over health care reform

  March 25, 2012 12:30 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Much like tailgaters waiting for a football game, there is a line of people outside the Supreme Court. They are waiting for seats inside to watch arguments that start tomorrow over President Barack Obama's health care reform plan. Those braving the wind and rain came equipped with... more »

• Obama could alter stance of federal appeals courts

  February 5, 2012 12:08 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - A second term for President Barack Obama would allow him to expand his replacement of Republican-appointed majorities with Democratic ones on the nation's appeals courts, the final stop for almost all challenged federal court rulings. Despite his slow start in nominating judges and Republican delays in Senate... more »

• Negative ads mix with holiday cheer in Iowa

  December 20, 2011 7:12 PM

  DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - Iowa residents flipping their TV channels this season aren't finding a whole lot of Christmas cheer. A barrage of negative campaign ads is flooding the airwaves, with ghoulish images of Newt Gingrich and Nancy Pelosi crowding Santa and doomsday music drowning out holiday song. Mitt Romney... more »

• Broadcasters ask Supreme Court to allow cameras for health care case

  November 16, 2011 7:36 PM

  The Radio and Television News Directors Association has sent a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts asking him allow television and audio coverage of the oral arguments presented to the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the constitutionality of the individual mandate requirement of the health care reform act.... more »

• C-SPAN: Put high court health care arguments on TV

  November 15, 2011 8:18 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - C-SPAN is asking the Supreme Court to let it broadcast live next spring's arguments over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The not-for-profit network's CEO, Brian Lamb, made the request by letter on Tuesday. There was no immediate response from the justices. Lamb says the... more »

• High court to rule on Stolen Valor Act

  October 17, 2011 11:34 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court will decide whether a law making it a crime to lie about having received military medals is constitutional. The justices said Monday they will consider the validity of the Stolen Valor Act, which passed Congress with overwhelming support in 2006. The federal appeals... more »

• Election-year ruling looms for health overhaul

  September 29, 2011 8:56 AM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul appears headed for a Supreme Court ruling as the presidential election season is hitting full stride in the coming year. The health care law affecting virtually every American seems sure to figure prominently in President Barack Obama's campaign for... more »

• High court asked to block Colo. Secret Service suit

  August 25, 2011 6:58 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Two Secret Service agents are asking the Supreme Court to declare they are immune from a First Amendment lawsuit filed by a Colorado man who they arrested after he confronted then-Vice President Dick Cheney. Steven Howards was arrested in the Colorado resort town of Beaver Creek... more »

• High court asked to block Colo Secret Service suit

  August 25, 2011 6:17 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Two Secret Service agents are asking the Supreme Court to declare they are immune from a First Amendment lawsuit filed by a Colorado man who they arrested after he confronted then-Vice President Dick Cheney. Steven Howards was arrested in the Colorado resort town of Beaver Creek... more »

• Chief Justice uneasy about cameras in courtroom

  June 25, 2011 4:14 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Chief Justice John Roberts says he's concerned about the effect that having television cameras in the Supreme Court would have on lawyers and justices. The court doesn't allow live television or audio broadcasting of arguments inside its chambers. Roberts says "movement will be gradual" at... more »

• Supreme Court backs Wal-Mart

  June 20, 2011 12:26 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has ruled for Wal-Mart in its fight to block a massive sex discrimination lawsuit on behalf of women who work there. The court ruled unanimously Monday that the lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. cannot proceed as a class action, reversing a decision by... more »

• Supreme Court upholds Arizona immigration law

  May 26, 2011 12:17 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has sustained Arizona's law that penalizes businesses for hiring workers who are in the United States illegally, rejecting arguments that states have no role in immigration matters. By a 5-3 vote, the court said Wednesday that federal immigration law gives states the authority to... more »

• Mich. Supreme Court sides with rapper Dr. Dre

  March 19, 2011 5:56 PM

  DETROIT (AP) - The Michigan Supreme Court has sided with Dr. Dre, ruling that Detroit officials had no right to privacy when they were videotaped backstage at a concert involving the hip-hop mogul and fellow rapper Eminem. The court released a ruling Saturday that dismisses a lawsuit filed by... more »

• Marijuana patients challenge new regulations

  January 6, 2011 11:13 AM

  Some medical marijuana patients filed a petition yesterday to stop Colorado's looming regulations for how pot is sold. The group of marijuana patients have asked the state's Supreme Court to overturn large parts of two Colorado laws passed last year that will regulate the medical marijuana industry. The patients'... more »

• State Supreme Court agrees to hear guns on campus arguments

  December 20, 2010 7:37 PM

  DENVER (AP) - A group that opposes guns on campus filed an argument with the Colorado Supreme Court urging the justices to dismiss a lawsuit that seeks to give students the right to carry firearms at colleges. The Washington, D.C.-based Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence said in a... more »

• New supreme court justice sworn in

  December 10, 2010 6:26 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Colorado has a new state Supreme Court justice. Colorado Deputy Attorney General Monica Marquez was sworn in Friday to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey. Marquez is the first Latina and the first openly gay jurist on the state's high... more »

• Walsenburg confession thrown out by State Supreme Court

  November 15, 2010 6:30 PM

  DENVER (AP) - A divided Colorado Supreme Court ruled that confessions and cocaine found on a suspect after police broke bones in the man's face, pushed him to the ground and beat him with a baton cannot be used at trial. A 4-3 opinion handed down by the state... more »

• Justice Thomas' wife leaves voice message for Anita Hill

  October 20, 2010 11:50 AM

  The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is asking Anita Hill to consider apologizing for accusing the justice of sexually harassing her. The request came in a voicemail message left on Oct. 9, some 19 years after Hill made the accusation during the justice's confirmation hearing. Virginia Thomas... more »

• Court rejects appeal of 2 ejected from Colorado event

  October 12, 2010 12:31 PM

  The Supreme Court has turned down the appeal of two people who say they were kept from attending an appearance by then-President George W. Bush in Denver in 2005 because of their opposition to the war in Iraq. The justices refused Tuesday to get involved in a case concerning... more »

• Supreme Court hears case about vaccine side effects

  October 12, 2010 8:11 AM

  Parents who say their daughter suffered serious health problems from a childhood vaccine are trying to persuade the Supreme Court to allow them to sue the manufacturer. The justices are hearing arguments Tuesday in a case that could open drug makers to a flood of lawsuits over the side... more »

• Law punishing fake heroes may go to Supreme Court

  October 11, 2010 8:39 AM

  The Justice Department is battling to save a federal law that makes it illegal to lie about being a war hero. A federal appeals court in California and a federal district court in Denver have both ruled the Stolen Valor Act is unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds. Government... more »

• Court to hear soldiers' funeral protest arguments

  October 6, 2010 10:06 AM

  Members of a fundamentalist church are circling the Supreme Court in protest, brandishing an assortment of the kinds of mocking placards they've been carrying to military funerals. The justices are hearing arguments later today in a lawsuit filed by the father of a dead Marine, who was outraged that... more »

• New Supreme Court term starts today

  October 4, 2010 9:46 AM

  The Supreme Court is starting its new term with a new justice, Elena Kagan, and bad news for hundreds of parties trying to get their cases heard at the high court. The justices are expected to start work Monday by denying many of the nearly 2,000 appeals that piled... more »

• Groups allied to GOP boost their fundraising

  September 20, 2010 6:27 AM

  New freedom from fundraising restrictions established by the Supreme Court are paying off for at least some Republican-allied groups. Two affiliated groups led by a blue-chip cast of Washington Republican strategists have raised a combined $32 million, creating a parallel and unofficial Republican campaign to defeat Democrats in November.... more »

• Sotomayor addresses diversity in Colorado speech

  August 26, 2010 10:03 AM

  The first Latina member of the U.S. Supreme Court is in Denver to talk to students about joining the legal profession. Justice Sonia Sotomayor is scheduled to address more than 250 high school and college students Thursday at a talk sponsored by the Colorado Campaign for Inclusive Excellence. The... more »

• 2 Supreme Court justices to speak in Colorado Springs

  August 23, 2010 10:42 AM

  Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor are scheduled to attend a judicial conference in Colorado Springs next weekend. About 800 judges from the 10th U.S. Circuit are expected at the conference. It's closed to the public, but C-SPAN is scheduled to broadcast a talk by Ginsburg... more »

• Judiciary panel OKs Elena Kagan for Supreme Court

  July 20, 2010 12:56 PM

  The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to approve Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court. The 13-6 vote sends the nomination to the full Senate, where she's expected to be confirmed as early as next week to succeed retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. Just one Republican, Lindsey Graham... more »

• Westboro Baptist submits brief to Supreme Court

  July 7, 2010 7:40 PM

  BALTIMORE (AP) - The fundamentalist church that picketed the funeral of a Marine killed in Iraq says its actions are constitutionally protected. An attorney for the Westboro Baptist Church submitted a 75-page brief to the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday. Albert Snyder is suing the church, claiming that the First... more »

• One Republican Senator says he'll vote against Kagan

  July 2, 2010 12:42 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah says he'll oppose Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court. Hatch is a former Senate Judiciary chairman and a current committee member who supported Kagan's installation as U.S. solicitor general. The Senate Judiciary Committee wrapped up Kagan's... more »

• Kagan seems to be on way to confirmation

  June 30, 2010 5:44 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats and Republicans agree that Elena Kagan seems to be on her way to confirmation to the Supreme Court. Republicans have been unable to get her to reveal much about her legal views, or say anything that might threaten her confirmation. Her appearance before the Senate... more »

• Brady Center weighs in on guns on campus issue

  June 30, 2010 3:29 PM

  The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed a friend of the court brief in the Colorado Supreme Court Wednesday in support of the University of Colorado's efforts to keep guns off campus. The University is seeking review by the Colorado Supreme Court of a lower court ruling allowing a... more »

• Nominee Kagan promises impartiality on court

  June 28, 2010 6:01 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is expected to face hours of questioning -- some of it less than friendly -- when her confirmation hearing resumes tomorrow before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Today, after opening statements from panel members, Kagan read a statement in which she promised... more »

• Kagan hearings begin

  June 28, 2010 2:35 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee are urging Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to be open with lawmakers and the American people scrutinizing her qualifications for the high court bench. But beyond that broad admonition, Democrat Patrick Leahy and Republican Jeff Sessions parted company. Leahy,... more »

• Supreme Court rules on Christian campus group

  June 28, 2010 2:30 PM

  WASHINGTON (AP) - The acting chancellor and dean of a California law school is praising a Supreme Court decision, saying it validates the school's policy of "equity and fairness." An ideologically split court ruled, 5-4, that the University of California's Hastings College of the Law can legally deny recognition... more »

• Kagan advice to Clinton on sex scandal to be kept secret

  June 11, 2010 2:43 PM

  Bill Clinton's presidential library is keeping secret memos and notes Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan wrote in connection with the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit. Kagan was deeply involved in defending Clinton in the lawsuit brought by the ex-Arkansas state worker that touched off events leading to Clinton's impeachment,... more »

• Nevada Supreme Court to hear arguments in O.J. Simpson case

  June 10, 2010 6:11 PM

  O.J. Simpson's lawyer calls time a big hurdle he'll face when he asks the Nevada Supreme Court to overturn the imprisoned former football star's conviction and grant a new trial in a September 2007 hotel room heist. Attorneys for Simpson and convicted co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart will each have... more »

• Supreme Court: Teens can't be locked up for life

  May 17, 2010 10:31 AM

  The Supreme Court has ruled that teenagers may not be locked up for life with no chance of parole if they haven't killed anyone. By a 6-3 vote Monday, the court says the Constitution requires that young people serving life sentences must at least be considered for release. more »

• Scrutiny promised for Supreme Court nominee

  May 10, 2010 2:19 PM

  Senate Republicans are promising to take a close look at President Barack Obama's latest Supreme Court nominee, even though Solicitor General Elena Kagan is considered likely to be confirmed. John Cornyn of Texas says it's their duty to give her record "a full and fair review." Susan Collins of... more »

• Obama picks Elena Kagan for Supreme Court

  May 10, 2010 11:27 AM

  President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, declaring she would demonstrate the same independence, integrity and passion for the law exhibited by retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. "Elena is widely regarded as one of the nation's foremost legal minds," said Obama. "She's... more »

• Obama to choose Kagan for Supreme Court

  May 10, 2010 8:15 AM

  The woman President Barack Obama is set to nominate to the Supreme Court is known as sharp, politically savvy and someone who has led a blazing legal career. Solicitor General Elena Kagan was the first female dean of Harvard Law School and the first woman to serve as the top... more »

• Place your bets: Supreme nominee coming soon

  May 7, 2010 7:49 PM

  President Barack Obama appears to be just days away from announcing his choice to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, and observers in the nation's capital are playing one of the city's most popular games: guessing. Obama has formally interviewed at least four candidates for the job, and administration... more »

• Front doors at Supreme Court closed to visitors

  May 3, 2010 12:09 PM

  The Supreme Court is closing its iconic front entrance beneath the words "Equal Justice Under Law." Beginning Tuesday, visitors no longer will ascend the wide marble steps to enter the building. Instead, they will be directed to a central screening facility to the side of and beneath the central steps... more »

• Obama to Hill leaders: No litmus tests on abortion

  April 21, 2010 1:57 PM

  President Barack Obama says there won't be any "litmus tests" for a Supreme Court nominee, but he wants someone who recognizes individual aspirations, and "that includes women's rights." The president said he was confident the Senate would offer a smooth, civil and thoughtful confirmation process for his eventual choice.... more »

• Court to rule in military funeral protest case

  March 8, 2010 2:38 PM

  The Supreme Court is getting involved in the legal fight over the anti-gay protesters who show up at military funerals with inflammatory messages like "Thank God for dead soldiers." The court agreed Monday to consider whether the protesters' message, no matter how provocative and upsetting, is protected by the... more »

• Obama lashes out at campaign finance ruling

  January 23, 2010 12:42 PM

  President Barack Obama on Saturday sharply criticized a Supreme Court decision easing limits on campaign spending by corporations and labor unions, saying he couldn't "think of anything more devastating to the public interest." He also suggested the ruling could jeopardize his domestic agenda. In its 5-4 decision this week,... more »

• Supreme Court rolls back campaign spending limits

  January 21, 2010 10:45 AM

  The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations may spend freely to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on their participation in federal campaigns. The court on Thursday overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said corporations can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to... more »

• Court won't disturb award in SUV rollover

  November 30, 2009 1:11 PM

  The Supreme Court has left in place an $82.6 million award to a woman who was paralyzed after her Ford Explorer rolled over. The justices on Monday rejected Ford Motor Co.'s challenge to the portion of the award, $55 million, that was intended as punitive damages. Ford argued that it... more »