"The FBI has told agents they can question terrorism suspects for a longer amount of time before reading them their Miranda rights. The move follows criticism from Republican lawmakers about the Justice Department's handling of recent national security cases."

Why, all of a sudden, do you have politicians like Rep.

In a newly-published interview with the legal magazine California Lawyer [...] In 1868, when the 39th Congress was debating and ultimately proposing the 14th Amendment, I don't think anybody would have thought that equal protection applied to sex discrimination, or certainly  …

In 1948, the idea of interracial marriage in the United States was almost unimaginable. The few polls on this topic at the time showed that Americans were nearly unanimous in their disapproval of it.

The real "wave" this midterm election was not Republican or tea party but corporate. A tsunami of secret cash flooded our elections and swept the party responsible for the lost decade of the middle class into a position of power.

Have we missed the real meaning of what Virginia Thomas meant? Read this actual transcript and then let's discuss what she meant:

Judge Vaughn Walker ruled today that California's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, on 14th Amendment grounds. His entire decision is here, and Marc Ambinder lays out Walker's factual findings here.

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.

Clarence Thomas has yet to protest the torture of St. Tammany Parish's suicidal prisoners—or of any prisoners at all, for that matter.

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.

In the standard school, the principal, in demanding that the student not wear the swastika, would himself have been engaged in an act of bullying. He would have been using his superior power to inflict his will upon the student, who had no power in that setting.

Dr. Jack Kevorkian has something very specific in store for you when you meet him these days: an education.

Troy Davis, on death row in Georgia since his 1991 conviction for the murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail, sat in white prison scrubs with chains on his waist, as his lawyers presented their case to the U.S. Supreme Court in a rare innocence appeal Wednesday.

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.

More than 50 U.S. lawmakers are calling on the U.S. Agriculture Department to keep Monsanto's (MON.N) biotech alfalfa out of farm fields, despite a Supreme Court ruling this week that cleared the way for limited planting pending environmental reviews.

"The Supreme Court has ruled that human rights advocates, providing training and assistance in the nonviolent resolution of disputes, can be prosecuted as terrorists," said Georgetown University law professor David Cole, who argued the case.

excerpt: ''On Wednesday, we heard closing remarks in the landmark Proposition 8 case. Litigants in this case want to overturn Caifornia's voter-approved ballot measure banning gay marriage. It's not the final chapter in this case as it will likely end up before the U.S.

Utah is set to execute a condemned killer by firing squad shortly after midnight Thursday, reviving a style of justice that hasn't been used for at least 14 years and that many criticize as archaic.

The father of fallen Marine, Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder feels that the actions from Kansas church-goers are not protected by the Constitution.

Did today's Supreme Court decision that "sexually dangerous" criminals can be indefinitely imprisoned move the U.S. justice system in the direction of a Stephen Spielberg dystopia? It sure seems like it.

n a blog post for the far-right American Family Association (AFA) today, Bryan Fischer comes right out and says that the media should pointedly ask Kagan, "Are you a lesbian?" And if she is, according to AFA, she shouldn't serve on the court:

Today, in a blatant bid to shut down late-term provider Dr. Leroy Carhart, the Nebraska Legislature overwhelmingly passed a virtual ban on all abortions beyond 20 weeks. The so-called "Pain Capable Unborn Child Act," LB 1103 does not only affect women and families from Nebraska.

The scene outside the Huntsville unit of the Texas state penitentiary last Wednesday evening was a familiar one. Police officers stood casually outside the imposing red-brick walls as a small group of passionate opponents of the death penalty railed against a punishment they say …