The show at the Capitol yesterday sounds hysterical alright: everyone from the most ardent advocate of children's rights to the most extreme right-wing nativist! The only thing to which I can imagine comparing it is the endless array of comments at the end of the article....

For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the prospect of three women on the Supreme Court is exhilarating, and she intends to stay around and enjoy it.

One of the few subjects about which Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was forthright at her confirmation hearings was cameras in the high court. She's for 'em.

A near unanimous Supreme Court today ruled Washington state can release the names of the roughly 138,000 people who signed ballot petitions to overturn a same-sex domestic partnership law.

Saying that life sentences for juveniles who don't kill anyone "means a denial of hope," the Supreme Court today struck them down as unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment.

President Obama is still an hour and a half away from formally announcing his choice of Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice John Paul Stevens' retirement, but red flags are already being raised by some on the right.

California and six other states are hoping to prohibit the sale to minors of violent video games that show images of humans being maimed, killed or sexually assaulted -- and the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the states will be able to regulate the sale.

President Barack Obama, treading carefully in the explosive arena of abortion and the Supreme Court, said Wednesday he will choose a nominee who pays heed to the rights of women and the privacy of their bodies. Yet he said he won't enforce any abortion rights "litmus tests."

Last March, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit delivered a win -- but a narrow win -- to teens who are determined to protect their First Amendment rights, and parents who support them in doing so.