Andrew Taylor, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Summer break over and elections ahead, Congress is beginning an abbreviated September session with must-do tasks of preventing...
(USA Today) – President Obama reminded donors Monday night that another issue could be at stake in this year’s U.S. Senate elections: Control of the...
(Politico) – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg signaled in an interview broadcast Wednesday that she has no plans to resign in the near future and...
(Los Angeles Times) – The Supreme Court’s controversial Hobby Lobby decision has thrust a once-little-known boutique law firm into the center of a growing conservative...
(USA Today) – We know Americans don’t have much confidence in Congress or President Obama, but it turns out the Supreme Court is also slipping in the...
(The Washington Post) – The three female justices of the Supreme Court sharply rebuked their colleagues Thursday for siding with a Christian college in the...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — In a decision that drew an unusually fierce dissent from the three female justices, the Supreme Court sided Thursday with religiously...
NANCY BENAC, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — There may be more to that “we the people” notion than you thought. These are boom times for the...
(AP) – Republicans called it a win for religious freedom. The decision of the Supreme Court, they said, is further evidence the country’s new health...
(The Washington Post) – Supreme Court experts have been looking for the right word to describe the term’s record number of agree-not-to-disagree unanimous decisions: Faux-nimity? Un-unanimous? The number of...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – One year after the United States Supreme Court gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act...
Washington (CNN) — Some corporations have religious rights, a deeply divided Supreme Court decided Monday in ruling that certain for-profit companies cannot be required to pay for...
[CNN] Aereo, the embattled startup that captured shows from the broadcast airwaves and let users stream them digitally to their computers, smartphones or tablets, is essentially...
(The Washington Post) – With the Supreme Court poised to rule on a case that could shape the future of television, the justices are navigating...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Twelve years after barring execution of the mentally disabled, the Supreme Court on Tuesday prohibited states in borderline...
(The Washington Post) – The Supreme Court ruled last week that nonbelievers and those of other religions had no reason to be unduly disturbed if...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a lower court to take a new look at a case involving repeated police use of...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In 1954, Lucinda Todd was one of 13 plaintiffs in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Race matters…because of the long history of racial minorities being denied access to the political process…because of persistent racial...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The Roberts Supreme Court decided last week that voters in the state of Michigan had the right to ban affirmative action...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Four months after the Supreme Court declined to invalidate affirmative action in a case brought against the...
by Alexis Taylor Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Proponents of same-sex marriage celebrated another victory with the Supreme Court’s June 26 ruling that...
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In its latest affirmative action ruling, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the Supreme Court, ruled the same way it...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The latest session of the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) had the interest of Black Americans like never before. On the...
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Last week, the Supreme Court’s conservative faction revealed more clearly than ever before its true colors. It showed that in...
