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Byline: Stephen Henderson, Detroit Free Press James Baldwin once said that to be black in America is to live in a constant state of rage. Rage not just about modern [...]

Byline: Valerie Strauss The people who best know the education advocacy work of Betsy DeVos, the billionaire tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to be his education secretary, are in Michigan, [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson A few hours before President Obama's State of the Union Address in January, John Dingell and I sat in his congressional office in Washington while he talked [...]

Byline: Stephen Henderson We've heard a lot this week from legal gun owners about their rights and the belief among many of them that President Obama's plans for tighter firearms [...]

If there's one thing this entire debt-ceiling controversy has taught us, it's that absolutes don't work. Elected officials need to be able to comprehend complex issues and come up with [...]

THE letter 'D' is for Divorce. 'P' is for Pining Away, and 'R' is for Remarriage. Don't look for those alphabet mnemonics anytime soon on 'Sesame Street,' although they are […]

IN August 2005, Jennifer Kohns was enduring what she calls her 'Job-ian' period. Unlike the Biblical figure, Ms. Kohns, a restaurateur, said her suffering was a result of her separation […]

The jurors heard all about the convenience store holdup, the gunshots and the dead clerk. Their unanimous verdict came swiftly: Warren King was guilty of a senseless murder that shocked [...]

Washington, D.C. -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with the thorny issues surrounding global warming and the government's efforts to abate it. But the hour-long arguments at the high [...]

Washington, D.C. -- The Supreme Court will return Monday to a docket that includes important cases on abortion, race and the environment, and by next spring, when the court adjourns, [...]

'I MADE it clear there wasn't to be any matchmaking. I never wanted my family involved,' Mustafa Jaffery said. 'I was going to marry on my own. During high school […]

WASHINGTON Anna Nicole Smith wants $88 million that she says is hers, and the former Playboy beauty is appealing to the big brains of the Supreme Court to get it. [...]

WASHINGTON - Providing fresh ammunition in the escalating fight over Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito Jr., documents released Wednesday show that as a young lawyer in the Reagan administration he [...]

WASHINGTON - In what appear to be some of her only public statements about a constitutional issue, Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers testified in a 1990 voting rights lawsuit that [...]

WASHINGTON - With a quick nomination of John Roberts to be chief justice, President Bush on Monday made Roberts' confirmation hearings even more important and opened a new debate over [...]

WASHINGTON - Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist once said that his job gave him some of the tools to be 'first among equals' on the nation's highest court, but what [...]

WASHINGTON - As a brash young lawyer in the Reagan White House, Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. scoffed at state efforts to pass gender-discrimination laws, advised caution in [...]

As one of Washington's top appellate lawyers, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts represented big business against employee claims, coal companies against polluted communities, and contractors seeking an end to government [...]

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 of Moses, carrying [...]

'What's the funniest thing that happened in school today?' My father considered this a foolproof conversational gambit and would spring it on my siblings and me every evening during dinner. [...]

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 [...]

ROAD RIPPERS toy cars and a Play-Doh George Foreman Grill are hardly typical wedding gifts. But there they were, piled with dozens of other toys under an enormous Christmas tree, […]

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 use of illegal [...]

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 [...]

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 the Ten Commandments [...]

AS a reporter for NY1 News on cable television, Rebecca Spitz spent many hours at City Hall in Manhattan. There, she befriended Kevin Fullington, who was then a lawyer for […]

U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE Joseph R. Goodwin says criminal sentencing is at the heart of his job, something that 'comes up daily' and consumes a lot of his time. For almost [...]

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 as enemy combatants [...]

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 [...]

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday shielded insurers from big-money malpractice suits, ruling that patients can't sue HMOs in state courts when their refusal to pay for recommended care [...]

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 [...]

WASHINGTON - A sharply split Supreme Court said Tuesday that police don't always have to give juveniles the famous Miranda warnings before questioning them, handing an important but narrow victory [...]

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 [...]

WASHINGTON - In a major test of the president's authority, the U.S. Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with whether the federal government can hold hundreds of foreigners at its Guantanamo Bay [...]

WASHINGTON - If a Nevada sheriff's deputy had arrested Larry Hiibel, read him his rights, and then tried to question him, Hiibel would have had a clear constitutional right to [...]

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 [...]

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, the Supreme Court [...]

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 [...]