Jun 12 - By Gina Holland, AP Writer
The Supreme Court made it easier Monday for death row inmates to contest the lethal injections used across the country for executions and to get DNA evidence before judges in a pair of rulings that hinted at fresh caution on capital punishment. Complete Story
8 hours ago - By Andrew Taylor, AP Writer
Congress is moving to give President Bush and his successors greater power to try to weed bills of certain spending, though the new power would pale compared with the line-item veto law struck down by the Supreme Court in 1998.
Jun 13 - By Steven K. Paulson, AP Writer
Colorado's governor threatened Tuesday to call a special legislative session unless the state Supreme Court reverses its "arrogant" decision to kill a November ballot measure that would ask voters to deny most state services to illegal immigrants.
Jun 12 - By The Associated Press, AP Writer
Excerpts from Monday's Supreme Court death penalty rulings:
Jun 12 - By Gina Holland, AP Writer
The Supreme Court refused Monday to reinstate the death sentence of Johnny Paul Penry, a Texas inmate who has twice won reprieves from the justices.
Jun 12 - By Gina Holland, AP Writer
The Supreme Court turned back an appeal Monday from Austrian Jewish victims of the Nazi regime whose litigation had tied up payments from a $210 million settlement.
Jun 12 - By Gina Holland, AP Writer
The Supreme Court opened the door Monday to constitutional challenges to lethal injection, the method used by most states and the federal government to execute death row inmates.
Jun 12 - By Associated Press
A Tennessee death-row inmate can use DNA evidence to attempt to show his innocence 20 years after he was convicted of murdering a neighbor, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Jun 9 - By Garance Burke, AP Writer
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a suburban Kansas City woman's request Friday to postpone her deportation, a penalty she faces because courts found she lied about her citizenship when she crossed the border illegally from Mexico years ago.
Jun 9 - By The Associated Press, AP Writer
Some details of Supreme Court justices' 2005 travel and financial information:
Jun 9 - By Gina Holland, AP Writer
Supreme Court justices crisscrossed the world last year, with stops in Bangkok, Paris, London and Prague, and less-exotic places like Omaha, Neb., and Morgantown, W. Va.
Jun 8 - By Larry O'Dell, AP Writer
The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a new trial to determine whether a death row inmate is mentally retarded and therefore ineligible for capital punishment.
Jun 7 - By Kristen Gelineau, AP Writer
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine on Thursday delayed the execution of a triple killer just over an hour before he was scheduled to be put to death amid claims he is mentally retarded and insane.
Jun 6 - By Chris Hawke, AP Writer
A Chinese activist lawyer, freed from prison after a three-year sentence imposed in a secret trial, said Tuesday he would defy warnings to remain silent and appeal his conviction to the Supreme Court.
Jun 6 - By Associated Press
The state Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case that could determine whether parolees can vote in Colorado.
Jun 5 - By Stephen Singer, AP Business Writer
City officials voted to evict two homeowners at the center of an eminent domain battle who refuse to leave their riverfront homes, even after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling that the city can seize the property for a private development project.
Jun 5 - By Stephen Singer, AP Business Writer
City officials voted to evict two residents whose refusal to give up their riverfront houses helped lead to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling that governments may seize property for private development projects.
Jun 5 - By Gina Holland, AP Writer
The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider a dispute over pricing policies between two makers of newspaper printing presses.
Jun 5 - By Associated Press
The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether inmates can reopen challenges to prison sentences based on a court ruling two years ago that limited judicial discretion in sentencing.
Jun 5 - By Toni Locy, AP Writer
The Supreme Court on Monday limited the use of civil anti-racketeering laws by companies seeking damages for allegedly illegal acts by their competitors.
Jun 5 - By Associated Press
The Supreme Court refused on Monday to consider the cases of journalists who protected confidential sources for stories about former nuclear weapons scientist Wen Ho Lee, a final note in a legal fight that pitted press freedoms against privacy rights.
Jun 5 - By Gina Holland, AP Writer
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether skin color can be considered in assigning children to public schools, reopening the issue of affirmative action. The announcement puts a contentious social topic on the national landscape in an election year, and tests the conservatism of President Bush's two new justices.
Jun 3 - By Phillip Rawls, AP Writer
One of the candidates in Alabama's gubernatorial primaries Tuesday is a former governor whose campaigning is limited because he's on trial on corruption charges. Another is the "Ten Commandments judge" who was booted from the Supreme Court for ignoring a federal court order.
Jun 3 - By Gina Holland, AP Writer
Chief Justice John Roberts said last fall he would like to see the Supreme Court take up more cases. So far, however, his arrival has had the opposite effect.
Jun 2 - By Shawn Pogatchnik, AP Writer
Ireland passed an emergency bill Friday on under-age sex, and the Supreme Court ordered a man at the center of the controversy to be reimprisoned for having sex with a 12-year-old girl.
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