This should have been, and turned out to be, a no-brainer. Gun manufacturers can’t get around background checks, serial ...

Nearly a decade after the Supreme Court declared a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, Republican legislators in nine states are pushing resolutions calling for repeal of the ruling. Meanwhile, ...

Groups tied to conservative legal activist Leonard Leo have filed legal briefs pushing to further gut regulatory power.

A federal judge in Florida has acknowledged that she created the appearance of bias when she stated that women needed to be ...

Former Chicago City Council member Patrick Daley Thompson may have made "misleading" statements about more than $200,000 in ...

January 31, 2006 - Alito is confirmed as an associate justice to the Supreme Court. The US Senate votes 58-42. He is immediately sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts. February 1, 2006 - Sworn in as ...

Ahead of U.S. Supreme Court arguments next week, a watchdog group asserted Wednesday that right-wing Justices Samuel Alito ...

Watchdog groups said the American public need assurances that Supreme Court justices weren't swayed by wealthy megadonors.

Senators voted on Tuesday to confirm Judge Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. as nation’s 110th Supreme Court Justice in a contested partisan vote. Senators voted on Tuesday to confirm Judge Samuel Anthony ...

Sen. Chambers changed my life in our brief encounter. I remember him today, nearly 60 years later. Black History Month was February. The struggle for racial justice is daily.

Both Thomas, a George H. W. Bush appointee, and Justice Samuel Alito, a George W. Bush appointee, would have granted the petition for a writ of certiorari. The latter did not elaborate on his ...

The article said that Gov. Jeff Landry sought to undermine the influence of Chief Justice John Weimer because he is registered as no party and has no clear ideological lines. Not being bound by ...