Questions arise about Supreme Court&#39;s future
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It was just last week that UMass&#39; own Professor Sheldon Goldman of the Political Science Department gave his distinguished lecture on the process and importance of judicial appointments.
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Some experts predicted that the Supreme Court decision on sentencing guidelines would renew a struggle between Congress and the judiciary.
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After months of intense campaigning about Iraq, terror, taxes and jobs, the future of the Supreme Court has finally entered the public discourse.
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When the Justices began the Supreme Court term on the first Monday in October 2000, they had no way of knowing that the term, and their lasting legacy, would be dominated by a case that wasn&#39;t even on the docket.
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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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The US Supreme Court Monday will addresses a ruling it handed down three months ago that touched off widespread confusion in the legal arenas.
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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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The Supreme Court, for the first time under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., confronted yesterday the devilishly complicated issue of church-state separation, and whether ordinary taxpayers have the right to sue over the Bush administration's embrace of faith-based organizations.
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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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The Supreme Court returns Monday with an ailing leader, pressure to rule quickly on the constitutionality of federal prison sentences and a slew of contentious issues to decide, from medical marijuana to Ten Commandment displays.
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A possible revolution in the federal criminal justice system will be on the agenda when the Supreme Court opens its new term tomorrow.
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A majority of the Supreme Court appeared Monday to find constitutional problems with the federal sentencing guidelines and grappled with whether to dramatically
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BusinessWeek Online - With barely a pause for breath after his hard-fought Election Day victory, President George W. Bush is gearing up for his next big campaign: The fight for the future of the Supreme Court. In his second term, Bush could have the chance to replace as many as four of the nine justices on the nation's highest bench, including the ailing Chief Justice, William H. Rehnquist. No President since Richard M. Nixon has appointed four justices, and, like his, Bush's choices will shape the law and life of the nation for generations.
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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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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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Last week, when William H. Rehnquist, chief justice of the United States underwent a tracheotomy to treat thyroid cancer, more questions were raised about the possibility that the next president
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The two newest Supreme Court justices took off the robes and took to the stump last week, providing glimpses of the fresh personalities that will reshape a court that had remained constant for more than a decade.