Eric Massa has issues. So does The Other Eric:Attorney General Eric Holder didn’t tell the Senate Judiciary Committee about seven Supreme Court amicus briefs he prepared or supported, his office acknowledged in a letter Friday, inc...

Iowa Family Policy Center's Chuck Hurley, the state's most ambitious anti-gay wingnut, who organized rallies to pressure the state Supreme Court over its ruling on marriage equality, says giving gays marriage rights is facilitating ...

Following two unsuccessful attempts at forcing ISP Telenor to block The Pirate Bay in Norway, the IFPI and performing rights outfit TONO have abandoned their legal action. The case will not now head to the Supreme Court but instead ...

New York City Comptroller John C. Liu has scored a coup in an ongoing national effort to increase corporate transparency after the U.S. Supreme Court...

Yesterday a federal judge rejected a constitutional challenge to Seattle's ban on guns in city parks, noting that the U.S. Supreme Court has not said that the Second Amendment applies to cities and states as well as the feder...

Jim Bopp has been the attorney in the RNC v. FEC litigation. But NBC now reports that "if the RNC loses [before the three judge court], it will ask Olson to represent them in a Supreme Court challenge." Jim is...

Ed. note: ATL has teamed up with the 10th Justice to predict how the Supreme Court may decide upcoming cases. CNN has called FantasySCOTUS the "hottest new fantasy-league game." In order to assess the accuracy of our league, we wil...

The Republican National Commitee appears to be preparing to make the case to the Supreme Court for lifting bans on "soft money" to political parties. Ted Olson, the Bush Solicitor General who's best known now for representing plain...

Supreme Court ruling sparks quick action by state legislatures seeking more disclosure from corporations, unions ...

This story about reading dissents from the bench reminds me why Pamela Karlan belongs (with Diane Wood) at or near the very top of Obama’s Supreme Court shortlist: Consider Bowers v. Hardwick, the 1986 decision that said there was n...

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is endorsing an end to the election of judges at the state and local levels. Ginsburg was...

Managing Editor's Note: We ran this post in October of 2008. We're running it today as background about the 1986 law that is being challenged in the Supreme Court (see HERE.) By J.B. Handley Almost 22 years ago, on October... ...

Bronx natives Jasper "Lyte" Grayson and James "Sal" Malloy were sentenced in Manhattan Supreme Court today for at least five years and possibly up to a decade in prison for organizing a giant check fraud scheme which netted a mini...

The West Virginia Supreme Court today declined to review a 2008 ruling, involving a dispute between energy companies, that led the U.S. Supreme Court last year to create new standards on when judges should recuse themselves in cases...

The Citizens United decision by the United States Supreme Court could reasonably be described as putting the cat among the pigeons. By removing the limits of corporations and unions to spend on named candidate advocacy they have ope...

President Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts have not spoken since the president called out the Supreme Court during his State of the Union address,...

Mother Jones: The Supreme Court recently freed corporations to spend more money on aggressive election ads. But if businesses take advantage of this new freedom, the public probably won't know it, because it's easy for them to legal...

The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a death sentence for a man who doused a Tustin bookkeeper with gasoline and set her on fire in a dispute about a paycheck. Jonathan D'Arcy, convicted of the 1993 murder of Karen...