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High School football coach Marcus Borden, who said he is making a stand for coaches nationwide, filed a petition on Monday with the U.S. Supreme Court for a review of a federal appeals court ruling that prohibits him from participating in team prayer.
PRINCETON BOROUGH -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will visit Princeton University for a public conversation Oct. 23 about constitutional law with Princeton provost Christopher Eisgruber.
U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is scheduled to speak at the University of Louisville and take part in a panel discussion about the court. Roberts' talk is set for Oct. 27 as part of the McConnell Center's fall lecture series. McConnell Center Director Gary Gregg said Roberts will deliver opening remarks before taking part in "A Conversation with the Chief," a panel discussion with ...
On few other issues do the candidates differ so sharply as on abortion. McCain has a consistent record of voting to restrict abortion. Obama is a co-sponsor of a bill that would invalidate any law that interfered with a woman’s right to get an abortion.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi toasted President Bush with pieces of a podium Monday night while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was dubbed a "prima donna" during a translation in a Columbus Day official dinner at the White House.
Washington - John McCain did not mince words in his reaction to an important Supreme Court decision in June on the rights of suspected terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. McCain called the 5-4 the ruling one of the worst decisions in the ...
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Republican vice presidential candidate (and Alaska's governor) Sarah Palin, talked about personal property rights last week. She spoke of the 2005 Supreme Court case Kelo v. City of New London and vehemently disagreed with the high court's ruling.
President Bush on Monday said, "The ties between the people of America and the people of Italy run deep, and the friendship between our countries has never been stronger. The United States and Italy are standing together against the forces of tyranny and terror. We're partnering to meet challenges in our economies, and expand trade and prosperity. And we share a vision of a future of freedom and ...
State whistleblowers tried to curtail greedy lending — and were thwarted by the Bush Administration and the financial industry.
Senators Barack Obama and Joseph Biden know that we make it too easy for dangerous people to get dangerous weapons in this country. They know...
Sarah and Jim Brady and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence with its network of Million Mom March Chapters endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President and Senator Joseph Biden for Vice President today, and urged Americans to vote for them.
In responding to what might have been a routine question in last Monday's U.S. Senate debate, Democratic candidate Mark Udall held out former Justice Byron White as a model for the next Supreme Court nominee.
Appointments Likely By McCain Or Obama Whether the Supreme Court's conservative leaning is solidified for decades to come, or thrown over, is entirely dependent on whether Sen. John McCain or Sen. Barack Obama prevails in November.
As CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen watched the debates, he found himself wishing he were the moderator so that he could ask the questions.
More than five years ago, in April 2003, the attorneys general of two small states traveled to Washington with a stern warning for the nation's top bank regulator. Sitting in the spacious Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, with its panoramic view of the capital, the AGs from North Carolina and Iowa said lenders were pushing increasingly risky mortgages. Their host, John D. Hawke Jr., ...
