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Reports: Like It or Not, Health Care Mandate Is Constitutional

Reports: Obama Risks Losing His Judicial Prize

Reports: The Best Justice That Money Can Buy

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’: Is That a Cross-Mallow in Your Lucky Charms?

Ear to the Ground: Top Judge Gives Golden State the ‘D’ Word

Ear to the Ground: SCOTUS Ponders Dog-Fighting Videos, ‘Human Sacrifice Channel’

Reports: A Slippery Slope on Guns

Ear to the Ground: Justice to Tackle Federal Secrecy Abuses

Reports: It Could Be the End of Our Democracy as We Know It

Ear to the Ground: Honduras Headache Won’t Go Away

Reports: Troy Davis and the Meaning of ‘Actual Innocence’

Ear to the Ground: Top Court Orders New Hearing for Troy Davis

Ear to the Ground: What Lies Ahead for Justice Sotomayor?

Reports: Sotomayor’s Bumpy Road to Confirmation

Ear to the Ground: Sotomayor Makes the Senate Cut

Reports: A Judge With a View

Cartoons: McCock

Ear to the Ground: If a Republican Votes Against Sotomayor, Does it Make a Sound?

Reports: ‘Judicial Activism’ on Campaign Finance Law

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Vetting Sotomayor, Sizing Up the GOP

A/V Booth: The Judgment Days of Sotomayor

Cartoons: Confirm This

Reports: Sotomayor Enters the D.C. Twilight Zone

Reports: Obama’s Court Votes May Return to Haunt Him

Ear to the Ground: Confirmation Remarks Worth Revisiting

Cartoons: Confirmation Hearings

Reports: White Men Can’t Trump

Reports: Closet Racism in the Age of Obama

Ear to the Ground: Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings Under Way

Reports: Sotomayor’s Critics Are the Real Radicals

Ear to the Ground: Gonzales’ New Gig

Ear to the Ground: Honduras’ Top Court Refuses to Reinstate Zelaya

A/V Booth: Colbert Plays ‘Judge, Jury and Executioner’

Ear to the Ground: Dems Make Franken a Player

Ear to the Ground: Still Waiting on Minnesota

Reports: Courtly Politics

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Surprises With Civil Rights Decision

Reports: The Justice Business

Reports: The Identity Dance

Ear to the Ground: Supremes Stall Chrysler Deal

Ear to the Ground: Man Arrested in Threat to Blow Up Sotomayor

Cartoons: It Worked for Clarence Thomas

Cartoons: GOP Paints Sotomayor

Reports: Hung Up on Race

Reports: A Wise Person for the Court

Reports: Why Obama’s Court Pick Is Already a Winner

Reports: Sotomayor Is No Leftist

Reports: A Justice for Us All

Ear to the Ground: Fight for Gay Marriage Goes Federal

Ear to the Ground: Sen. Inhofe Concerned About the Whole Race, Gender Thing

A/V Booth: Maddow 1, Limbaugh 0

Ear to the Ground: Top GOP Senator Threatens High Court Filibuster

Reports: In Praise of Empathy

Ear to the Ground: High Court Lets Ashcroft, Mueller Off the Hook

Reports: Double-Flipping on ‘Identity Politics’

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’: Meet the Souterbomber

Ear to the Ground: Souter Is Outer

Ear to the Ground: Clarence Thomas on Rights, Miraculous Dishwashers

Ear to the Ground: Iowa Is 3rd State to Recognize Gay Marriage

Ear to the Ground: Prop. 8 Likely to Stand

Ear to the Ground: Go Ahead and Sue

Reports: Supreme Sexism

Ear to the Ground: Justice Ginsburg Has Pancreatic Cancer

Ear to the Ground: Brown Moves to Nix Prop. 8

Ear to the Ground: Court Is Asked to Strip Blagojevich of Power

Cartoons: Obama Comes Clean

Ear to the Ground: Brazilian Indians Win Land Battle

Arts and Culture: FCC Still Obsessed With Janet Jackson’s Nipple Slip

Ear to the Ground: Connecticut Same-Sex Couples Begin to Wed

Reports: Keeping the Supreme Court in Check

Ear to the Ground: New York Times Endorses Barack Obama

Ear to the Ground: Conn. Court Overturns Anti-Gay Marriage Law

Cartoons: Mumia

Reports: The Next President’s Supreme Legacy

A/V Booth: Debate Preview: Biden and Palin Answer ‘Vice Presidential Questions’

Reports: Troy Davis and the Supreme Decision

Arts and Culture: Jonathan Shapiro on the Hamdan Case

Ear to the Ground: Obama and McCain Talk Morality at OC Mega-Church

Reports: Battle for the Bench

Reports: Ready, Aim, Backfire

Reports: A Court of Radicals

Reports: When Common Sense Is Unconstitutional

Cartoons: Courting Disaster

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Backs Gun Owners

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Slashes Exxon Valdez Penalty

Reports: Notes on a California Sea Change

Arts and Culture: Remembering George Carlin

Reports: A Government of Law, Not Fear

A/V Booth: Obama Blasts GOP Anti-Terror Tactics

Ear to the Ground: Gay Couples Get Ready to Wed in California

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Supreme Court Rules, McCain Rails

Reports: One for the Constitution

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Deals a Body Blow to Guantanamo

Ear to the Ground: ‘9/11 Mastermind’ Mohammed Says He Wants Death Penalty

Ear to the Ground: Former Illinois Governor Is Denied Appeal, Stays in Prison

A/V Booth: DeGeneres: ‘I’m Getting Married!’

Reports: Different Republican, Same Right-Wing Court

Ear to the Ground: Another Reason Not to Vote for McCain

Reports: Unequal Under the Law

Reports: Mythmaking and Democracy

Ear to the Ground: Thou Shalt Kill

Ear to the Ground: You Take the High, Palestinians Take the Low

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Considers Second Amendment

Ear to the Ground: Top Court Sets Back the Foes of Bush’s Wiretaps

Ear to the Ground: End of an Era

Ear to the Ground: International Protest Targets Guantanamo

Reports: Justice Is Blind, but Can She Vote?

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Rules Against Mandatory Minimums

Reports: America’s Gulag Goes Before the Court

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court to Rule on Gun Rights

Ear to the Ground: Musharraf Frees Thousands of Pakistani Prisoners

Ear to the Ground: Musharraf Declares State of Emergency in Pakistan

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Puts Executions on Hold

Ear to the Ground: Court Voids 10-Year Sentence in Teen Sex Case

Reports: Sweeping Our Inhumanity Under the Rug

Ear to the Ground: Top Court Refuses to Hear Torture Case

Ear to the Ground: Politicians Free to Lie In Washington State

Ear to the Ground: Musharraf Wheels and Deals as Election Looms in Pakistan

Reports: Justice Is Blinded by Rage

Ear to the Ground: Justice for Sale?

Reports: Affirmative Dissatisfaction

Reports: The Year for Women

Ear to the Ground: Chief Justice Has Mysterious Seizure

Ear to the Ground: More Trouble for Musharraf

Reports: The Supremely Disappointing Court

Cartoons: Trashing Precedent

Ear to the Ground: Ray of Hope for Gitmo Detainees

Reports: Unmaking History

Reports: The Way-Paver Makes Waves

Ear to the Ground: Top Court: ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ Not School-Friendly

Reports: Hillary Gets It

Cartoons: Boys’ Club

Ear to the Ground: Flynt: Falwell Was a Friend

Ear to the Ground: Justice O’Connor Warns Against Judicial Inconsistency

Reports: Supremes Know Best

Reports: Life, Death and Politics

Cartoons: Unsafe, Barely Legal and Rare

Reports: Governing the Womb

Ear to the Ground: Top Court’s Choice Not Pro-Choice

Ear to the Ground: Slur Suit DOA at Top Court

Reports: King George Loses His Crown

Reports: Leave Your Morals at the Border

Ear to the Ground: Top Court Puts Heat on EPA

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Won’t Rule on Gitmo Inmates’ Rights

Reports: Supreme Court Gives Gore’s Oscar to Bush

Ear to the Ground: No Judicial Recourse for Detainees

Ear to the Ground: Chief Justice Wants More Money

A/V Booth: Did Ford Trade Nixon Pardon for Presidency?

Ear to the Ground: Court Rejects Religious Vouchers Case

Ear to the Ground: High Court to Hear Global Warming Case

Ear to the Ground: Case Will Point to Revised Court’s Abortion Approach

Ear to the Ground: Torture Bill Nears Bush’s Desk

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Will Give All U.S. Detainees Geneva Rights

Cartoons: Powell - Knocking Privacy

A/V Booth: Stewart Mocks a Repetitive Bush

Ear to the Ground: Did Scalia Prejudge Guantanamo Case?

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court: Obscenity Still in Eye of Beholder

Ear to the Ground: Acceptance of Gay Marriage Up, Poll Finds

Ear to the Ground: O’Connor Warns Against ‘Beginnings’ of Dictatorship

Ear to the Ground: Spineless in South Dakota

Reports: The Towering Solons of Abortion

Ear to the Ground: South Dakota Abortion Law to Challenge Roe

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Upholds Campus Military Recruiting

Ear to the Ground: If Ginsburg Fell Asleep, So Did Media

Ear to the Ground: Court Sides With Abortion Protesters

Ear to the Ground: Court OKs Hallucinogenic Tea

Ear to the Ground: Scalia Dismisses ‘Living Constitution’

Ear to the Ground: Halfhearted Filibuster Attempt Ends Predictably

Ear to the Ground: Kerry Calls for Alito Filibuster

Ear to the Ground: Bush Disingenuously Re-Brands Spying Program

Ear to the Ground: Justices Reaffirm Emergency Access to Abortion

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Upholds Oregon Assisted Suicide Law

Ear to the Ground: Alito Appears Headed for Confirmation

Ear to the Ground: Alito Leaves Door Open to Reversing ‘Roe’

Uncovered: The Alito Nomination

Ear to the Ground: In Day Two, Alito Says Even Wartime Presidents Are Not Above the Law

Ear to the Ground: Alito, a Youthful Enemy of the Warren Court

Uncovered: Examining the Death Penalty

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