Supreme Court term gets off to fast start
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The justices are set to hear a number of big cases, and their docket may also include any election disputes.
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The Supreme Court's controversial member jockeys for Chief Justice
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The Supreme Court is about to plunge into an agenda laden with issues affecting the business sector. Tobacco companies, the biotech industry and operators of coal-fired power plants have a stake in cases the court will hear in the next month.
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not in the way that the court counted in 2000. If President Bush gets to make his first Supreme Court appointment
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After more than three years of appointment battles, President Bush's ambitions for the courts are clear, but his record is mixed.
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The Supreme Court opens its new term on Monday faced with urgent business and looming uncertainty. The justices&#39; most pressing task is to resolve the fate of the federal
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As the Supreme Court opens its second term under its new chief justice, here are four things to watch for
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The Supreme Court said yesterday it will consider the constitutionality of a statewide primary election system in which the top two finishers advance to the general election even if they are from the same party.
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The future face of the Supreme Court, a muted issue throughout the heated presidential race, gained urgency Monday with the unexpected announcement that
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These are among the actions taken by the Supreme Court on Monday:
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The Supreme Court is about to plunge into an agenda laden with issues effecting the business sector. Tobacco companies, the biotech industry and operators of coal-fired power plants have a stake in cases the court will hear in the next month.
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President Bush has yet to make a Supreme Court appointment, but with Chief Justice William Rehnquist ailing that could be about to change and trigger a divisive political battle right after the presidential campaign.
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The Supreme Court session starting Monday features many of the same wrenching issues that splintered the justices during the last term and led to some unusually acrimonious dissents. The death penalty, free speech and prison sentences are back on the agenda, along with new topics such as medical marijuana and out-of-state wine purchases that are likely to produce significant disagreement.
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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist&#39;s hospitalization for cancer brings with it the prospect of the first Supreme Court vacancy in a decade and is prompting speculation about who might take his place.
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Abortion and race dominate the Supreme Court's agenda for the term that begins tomorrow,  with the Bush administration and its conservative allies urging the justices to put limits on abortion rights and affirmative action.
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It was Justice Antonin Scalia's standard speech. He bemoaned the Supreme Court's growing political role in cases such as abortion, then joked about how Democrats are wary of a "Chief Justice Scalia" in a second Bush term.
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President Bush will begin his second term with an advantage he did not bring to his first: a mandate. Unlike in 2000, Bush won a popular-vote victory - a convincing one, unencumbered by judicial involvement.