Don&#39;t forget power to pick justices
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The news that US Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist has cancer has raised a neglected but weighty factor this election: The next president will very likely choose one or more new Supreme Court justices.
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In a case that could roil the US presidential race, the US Supreme Court will consider whether requiring voters to provide identification to cast a ballot is constitutional.
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A new Supreme Court term opens Monday with eyes on its leader, the junior justice, the oldest and the man in the middle as abortion, race and other familiar issues resurface.
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This election's potential impact on the Supreme Court has seemed to be an afterthought, but the stakes for the court and the law are even higher now than they were in 2000. The prospect of a change on the court is greater and the replacement of one justice could affect the law on hot issues.
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Although no one is quite certain of what Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist&#39;s thyroid cancer means for this election, everyone is clear that it ups the political ante: Following a month
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NEWS: Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist&#39;s thyroid cancer gives the Supreme Court new prominence in the presidential campaign; the next president could appoint one or more justices.
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Bush may get to fill as many as three Supreme Court openings, remaking the court for a generation. Democrats have become experts at blocking nominees they oppose, but they can't stop them all
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His cancer surgery over the weekend reminds us that Chief Justice William Rehnquist, appointed to the Supreme Court by President Nixon, is not going to be on the court forever.
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The Supreme Court is expected to rule Friday on rerunning the country&#39;s disputed presidential election. By Fred Weir and Helen Womack | Correspondents of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Chief Justice William Rehnquist&#39;s hospitalization with thyroid cancer last weekend has ramped up the urgency of an already dramatic presidential race.
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The Supreme Court, which settled the last presidential election, may be drawn into this one even before Election Day.
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Even Supreme Court Justices ruling on major constitutional issues can be swayed by their families. Is that a bad thing?
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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist&#39;s recent treatment for thyroid cancer is a stark reminder of a campaign issue that has generally taken a back burner to other matters this year.
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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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With President Bush&#39;s re-election, US Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist likely will retire soon. Republican gains in the Senate give Bush more flexibility
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The Supreme Court swept aside complaints that the state chooses its trial judges through a system that favors party cronies and gives voters no real say.
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Attention, Supreme Court practitioners! Absolutely free advice on how to make your briefs better-read, your arguments more closely followed, your justices more sympathetic, courtesy of the man who's been successful on both sides of the table, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.