Associate Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed while on vacation in the Caribbean. Crime against the Supreme Court justices isn't without precedent, though. more ›

In a case that stemmed from an investigation by D.C. police and the FBI of a local drug dealer, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that police across the country need a warrant if they want to track suspects using GPS monitors. more ›

After marching around Congress earlier this week, the Occupy movement was back on Capitol Hill today, this time to press their case against the Supreme Court. Twelve protesters have been arrested. more ›

First Congress gets occupied, next it's the Supreme Court and the corporations. more ›

After a day of protesting on the U.S. Capitol's front lawn, members of Occupy Congress marched from the Hill to the Supreme Court to the White House. Only four arrests were reported. more ›

D.C. Attorney General Irv Nathan announced today that the District was adding its name to a brief submitted by 10 states and the Virgin Islands backing the constitutionality of President Obama's healthcare reform law. more ›

The Supreme Court announced today that they would hear a challenge to the legality of President Barack Obama's health-care reform act, which was passed in 2010. more ›

The 19 people who were arrested yesterday on the steps of the Supreme Court -- including civil rights activist Cornel West and local R&B singer Raheem DeVaughn -- will not be charged with any crimes. more ›

The Post reports that the Supreme Court has decided that Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli isn't allowed to cut the judicial queue -- The Cooch will have to address his challenge to the Obama administration's health care reform law in his own state before bringing it to the high court. more ›

On his way to work this morning -- and before he was scheduled to hear arguments regarding Dukes vs. Walmart, which might turn out to be the "largest employment discrimination class-action suit in American history" -- Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia got into a fender bender while driving on the George Washington Parkway. more ›

We get so used to reading stories about government-types sleeping on cots in their offices, believing that they need to carry handguns while they do walk around town and generally giving the "la, la, la, I can't hear you" treatment to the entire city, that it actually warms our heart a little bit to know that there's at least one member of the national leadership who doesn't just give D.C. the time of day -- but appears to actually like living here. more ›

Last week, we noted that the Supreme Court was preparing to release a decision on the petition filed by Bishop Harry Jackson requesting that the District's gay marriage law be suspended pending the completion of a citywide referendum on the issue. The Court ruled today, turning away Jackson yet again. more ›

The United States Supreme Court is preparing to rule on a petition brought by indefatigable same-sex marriage opponent Bishop Harry Jackson which argues that the citizens of the District should vote on whether or not such marriages should be legal. The Washington Blade reports that the country's highest judicial body could render a decision on the case as soon as next Tuesday. Justices are scheduled to conference regarding the case on Friday. more ›

Our sister site Gothamist brought our attention to the above map, created by Very Small Array, which labels each American state and the District of Columbia with the first autocomplete suggestion that popped up when the name of the jurisdiction was entered into Google last Friday night. more ›

The Supreme Court ruled today that Second Amendment protections extend to the states, finally extending the 2008 Heller decision that knocked down the District's three-decade-old gun ban. more ›

In a city that can at times feel like it's in perpetual lockdown, one government building remained fairly accessible to the public: the United States Supreme Court. That changes tomorrow though, when the building's iconic front entrance closes to visitors. The reason? Security, of course. more ›

Maryland's Eighth Congressional District, stretching from Prince George's County to the northern tip of Montgomery County, has switched back and forth between the Republican and Democratic parties in recent decades, though Rep. Chris Van Hollen's (D-Md.) has held the seat since 2003. But in this year's election, it may well switch back -- Van Hollen is facing a well-funded and powerful Republican contender. more ›

It was on this day last year that the District's longstanding and long controversial ban on handguns was upended, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that such blanket prohibitions were an unconstitutional infringement of the Second Amendment. More broadly, though, what had been the country's strictest regulations of a specific type of gun gave the majority of the court the chance to rule that the Second Amendment granted an individual, not collective right to gun ownership. And it was all because of a District resident whose name now graces the case file: Dick Heller. more ›

Obama is set to nominate appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court seat vacated by David Souter at press conference this a.m. Sotomayor has been a front-runner for several weeks and received some, er, enthusiastic critiques from legal observers, like TNR's Jeffrey Rosen, who quoted anonymous law clerks to portray the Yale and Princeton grad as "not that smart." Sotomayor made her way to the Ivies after growing up in a housing project in the Bronx. Should make for interesting confirmation hearings. If she makes it, Sotomayor will be the third woman in the history of the court, the second on the current bench, and the first Latina. more ›

Virginia Governor Tim Kaine (D) today ended a two-week moratorium on lethal injections after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the execution method did not violate constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment. more ›

Today the Post is reporting some big, if symbolic news -- Virginia Governor Tim Kaine (D) decided yesterday to impose a moratorium on executions until the U.S. Supreme Court can issue a ruling on a case challenging the constitutionality of lethal injections. Kaine's announcement directly stayed two upcoming executions. more ›

Walter Dellinger has argued before the Supreme Court on many occasions. In fact, according to a Post profile of the lawyer and academic, he's been in front of the nine justices often this year -- three times in the last four weeks. And while yesterday's argument may have been one of the most historic, it probably wasn't the most fun. more ›

Since we couldn't get into the Supreme Court itself and hardly consider ourselves legal experts, we're going to...link to someone else that's live-blogging the audio proceedings. more ›

A little more than a year separates when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Circuit first called the District's gun laws unconstitutional, and the final test those laws will face today before the U.S. Supreme Court. And in a matter of hours, the case will have been heard, the audio of the proceedings will be released, and months of conjecture will fill the space until the justices actually issue a final ruling. more ›

With the March 18 hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the D.C. gun ban fast approaching, there's been a lot of news we've missed. more ›

...historically Congress has interpreted the Second Amendment as recognizing the right of law-abiding individuals to keep and bear arms. This Court should give due deference to the repeated findings over different historical epochs by Congress, a co-equal branch of government, that the Amendment guarantees the personal right to possess firearms. The District’s prohibitions on mere possession by law-abiding persons of handguns in the home and having usable firearms there are unreasonable per se.

"While the District of Columbia is not a state, it operates under a framework of laws enacted by the Congress which gives its elected leaders the duty to advocate the positions and interest of its citizens before the federal judiciary."

When District lawyers face the Supreme Court in March to defend the city's ban on handguns, they'll not only be fighting to save a local policy -- they'll also be asking the court to decide whether the Second Amendment protects gun ownership in an individual capacity or only under the auspices of a state-run militia. more ›

Good morning, Washington. Supporters of Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sen. Barack Obama are riding high off their caucus victories in Iowa last night, but locally, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty continues to suffer some bumps in the road after one year in office. Just weeks after the resignation of Attorney General Linda Singer, Fenty's former deputy chief of staff, Neil Richardson, has also resigned. Richardson, who was a key Fenty aide during his mayoral campaign, had been moved out of Fenty's "bullpen" in October and placed in an office called Serve DC, where he was tasked with creating a volunteer program to help the school system. Yesterday Richardson decided that the demotion, which came, according to the Post, after Richardson complained to the mayor that he was not listening enough to the public on key decisions, wasn't worth sticking around for, and tendered his resignation. WTOP has excerpts from Richardson's resignation letter, which reiterates complaints heard from others about Fenty's dictatorial governing style. more ›

As we mentioned at the end of the day yesterday, Acting D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles has fired Alan Morrison, the lawyer who had been preparing to defend the District's handgun ban before the Supreme Court in March. The timing of this move leads to all manner of questions about how seriously the Fenty administration actually takes this Supreme Court case, and whether the Mayor and the Acting AG are capable of putting important legal proceedings above personal disagreements. more ›

>> The D.C. attorney who wrote the 15,000-word gun ban brief was fired, just as the city prepares to defend its position to the U.S. Supreme Court. [NBC4] more ›