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Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court abandoned nearly two decades of federal sentencing practice Wednesday, saying judges no longer have to follow the complex system of guidelines that [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court's two centrist justices emerged during arguments Wednesday as the key votes in a case that will decide the future of the death [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The U.S. Supreme Court repudiated a central legal doctrine of the Bush administration's war on terror Monday, saying that U.S. citizens and foreigners being held [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Justice Department handed down its first indictment Thursday in the investigations of detainee abuse, charging a civilian contractor from North Carolina in connection with [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court plunged itself again into the roiling debate over church and state separation on Monday by refusing to review a lower-court ban on [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ Robert Tennard's IQ is 67 _ low enough that he's considered barely educable by most standards. But a Texas court said that alone doesn't prove [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday made a bold statement for the separation of church and state, ruling that states may deny public scholarship money [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ Laws against age discrimination don't prohibit employers from rewarding older workers and retirees with enhanced benefits such as insurance policies, pension plans and buyout offers, [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider whether executing young killers violates constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment, continuing the justices' substantial review [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider whether executing young killers violates constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment, continuing the justices' substantial review [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The language was so clear. In the Supreme Court's pivotal affirmative action ruling last spring, the justices said that universities _ as special gateways of [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court Monday appeared headed for a split over tough new federal campaign finance laws, with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor likely to cast the [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson PHOENIX_ He called himself the $5 governor. It wasn't a particularly accurate nickname for Tucson ophthalmologist Mark Osterloh, given that he lost the 2002 Democratic primary for [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ They were sons who enthusiastically embraced the sins of their father. And at the peak of their power, they became Saddam Hussein's ultimate biological weapons. [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court toughened standards for death-penalty defense lawyers Thursday when it struck down a Maryland man's sentence, saying his attorneys failed him when they [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday that the Family and Medical Leave Act guaranteed state government workers the same rights as private employees, and that [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson ATHENS, Ga. _ On the day he graduated from Yale Law School 29 years ago, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas remembers being so outwardly over-confident his grandfather [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ It was a discussion about race and opportunity and how this country's most elite educational institutions can fulfill the American promise of equality. And it [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ Racial equality. Opportunity. A 'compelling' government interest in creating diverse campuses. These themes take center stage Tuesday when two cases challenging the University of Michigan's [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ Racial equality. Opportunity. A 'compelling' government interest in creating diverse educational environments. These are the themes that will take center stage Tuesday when the two [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ When the arguments end, the waiting begins. The U.S. Supreme Court won't likely issue decisions in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases for months [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ In arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, a Houston prosecutor's defense of Texas' homosexual sodomy ban appeared to crumble under the weight of three [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ Defense lawyers once considered the U.S. Supreme Court a dead end for death penalty cases, a place where claims of innocence or bad lawyers or [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ When the Supreme Court ruled recently that Victor's Little Secret wasn't a prohibited knock-off of the name of lingerie giant Victoria's Secret, there was another [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _It turns out that Victor and Victoria are, indeed, different. At least they're different enough for the Supreme Court to say Tuesday that a sex- toy [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ Any visitor to the Supreme Court can see it, high above the red velvet drapes and marble columns in the justices' august courtroom: a depiction […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether the federal government can block a state's right-to-die law, setting the stage for a debate that tangles […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court appeared sympathetic Tuesday toward a group of New London, Conn., homeowners fighting to keep their land, but the justices seemed equally skeptical […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ It happens in city after city: Office buildings rise where mom-and-pop stores once stood and new houses replace a church or a blighted neighborhood. The […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ Criminal defense advocates said Thursday they were puzzled by President Bush's call Wednesday night for funding to train defense lawyers in death penalty cases because […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court gave police broader search powers Monday, saying the Constitution doesn't protect motorists' vehicles from the "nosy" inquiries of drug-sniffing dogs during routine […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ He walked with a cane and spoke in a voice that was weaker and raspier than normal, but Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court appeared split Tuesday over a Pennsylvania death row inmate's fate, as justices considered whether Ronald Rompilla's jury was given poor instructions, and […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court refused to get involved in a case over gay adoptions Monday, signaling an unwillingness among the justices to take on another contentious […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The year is just days old, but already the Supreme Court, increasingly a focal point in the turbulent debate over social values, finds itself facing […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson TRENTON, N.J. _ Equality is what Cindy Meneghin says she wants _ the kind of equality that would recognize publicly the three decades she has spent with […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ Roderick Jackson was doing what any good coach would, sticking up for his players when the school administration shorted them on resources. His girls basketball […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court on Monday appeared unlikely to shield medical marijuana users from federal drug laws, as justices expressed deep reservations about sanctioning even limited […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The marijuana she smokes every two waking hours makes life bearable for Angel Raich. It eases the pain from an inoperable brain tumor, scoliosis and […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ An hour of high-minded debate at the Supreme Court on Wednesday over the scope and limits of the Fourth Amendment and personal privacy boiled down […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ With President Bush poised to appoint as many as four Supreme Court justices in the next four years, the prospect that the court may turn […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ A powerful second-term president and a seriously ill chief justice make it almost certain that the Supreme Court is due for changes, court watchers agreed […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court on Tuesday considered whether a California policy of segregating inmates by race for the first 60 days they're in prison violates the […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist did not show up at the Supreme Court on Monday, and he acknowledged undergoing radiation and chemotherapy for the thyroid […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ William H. Rehnquist is head of the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary _ a public official of the same stature as the president or […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson and Seth Borenstein WASHINGTON _ Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who remains hospitalized after surgery related to thyroid cancer over the weekend, may be sicker than Supreme […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ As lawyers from the presidential campaigns fan out to fight election 2004 in the nation's courthouses, they're bolstered by archaic election laws, poor preparation by […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ As lawyers from the presidential campaigns fan out to fight election 2004 in the nation's courthouses, they're bolstered by archaic election laws, poor preparation by […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court debated Wednesday the fate of two Cubans who are scheduled for deportation, are not welcome back in their native land and exist […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ Stepping again into the cultural struggle over the separation of church and state, the Supreme Court said Tuesday that it would decide whether monuments to […]