Two professional football players who garnered lots of headlines last year for their outspoken support of marriage equality are now taking their advocacy to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Most of the federal government is closed today, but Americans still have one branch of the government brave enough to show up to work in the face of Hurricane Sandy.
The District joined New York and 13 other states in filing a brief in support of the University of Texas at Austin in a U.S. Supreme Court case that is testing the constitutionality of the school’s admissions policy.
Some people wait in line for concert tickets. Others for food, or the newest generation of Apple products. But Kathie McClure and Monica Haymond are among the people that have lined up outside the Supreme Court, hoping to get into the hearings starting today on President Obama’s health care reform law.
It’s the first Monday in October, and that means that the U.S. Supreme Court gets back to work hearing cases today. On its docket this term is a case involving a D.C. man, GPS surveillance and the question of how far is too far in tracking a suspect.
The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear an appeal in the case of whether the Washington Redskins’ name is offensive, the Associated Press is reporting. This case, led by a group of American Indians who would like to see the NFL team change their name, has been going on since the early 1990s. At least once the plaintiffs won, only to be overturned on the basis of a statute of limitations. Today’s decision…
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied convicted D.C. Sniper John Allen Muhammad’s request to stay his execution. Barring any unforeseen intervention, the decision means that Muhammad will be put to death by the state of Virginia at 9 p.m. on Tuesday night. The Post notes that Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor all objected to the speed at which the high court made its decision, writing that they “allowed Virginia to…
Freshly sworn in U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was spotted (and captured in a grainy video by a FOX camera) celebrating with friends and family at Chinatown’s Irish Channel Pub on Monday night. That Sotomayor went out dancing and sang karaoke in a local bar makes us supremely happy. We have high hopes that the justice will quickly become a visible fixture in our city. But Sonia, sweetheart, the Irish Channel? The last…
No big surprise here, but the U.S. Senate just voted 68-31 to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Sotomayor will be the first Hispanic and only the third female justice ever. Whether the justice would be confirmed was never really in much doubt; the biggest piece of news out of the vote was maybe that ailing Sen. Robert Byrd managed to show up to cast his vote. But the inevitability of…
Just to stick a fork in the overdone bird that is the Donofrio v. Wells, Secretary of State of New Jersey case, which brought seemingly countless cuckoos out of the woodwork and into our comment threads, SCOTUSblog brings confirmation that the high court has indeed allowed the Obama citizenship case to die a quiet death.In a brief order, the Court, as expected, turned aside a New Jersey voter’s plea for the Court to determine if…
