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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 […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ Fighting to preserve guidelines governing how criminals are sentenced in federal courts, the government's top advocate told a seemingly unsympathetic Supreme Court Monday that there's […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ Christopher Simmons kidnapped Shirley Crooks from her Missouri home, bound her like an animal and drove her to a railroad trestle where he tossed her […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ Reacting to what has been a summer of chaos in lower courts, the Supreme Court said Monday it will clarify whether a June ruling that […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ 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 […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court rejected Tuesday a law that would punish Internet porn peddlers who don't shield their Web sites from children, but it gave the […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson and Amy Driscoll WASHINGTON _ In a ruling that even some on the high court say could wreak havoc in legislatures and courtrooms around the nation, the […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ In two pivotal rulings Thursday, the Supreme Court curtailed more than 100 death-penalty appeals in at least five states, saying new procedural rules can't be […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ A Supreme Court ruling Thursday will allow the Bush administration to keep its secrets about Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force at least until […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson, Shannon McCaffrey and Jonathan F. Landay WASHINGTON _ Stung by the perception that the Bush administration may have endorsed torture as an interrogation technique, White House officials […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ Siding with authorities in an important test of their power, a divided Supreme Court said Monday that citizens can be arrested for refusing to give […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson 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 […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson and Larry Fish WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court gave a modest lift Monday to employees who quit over intense sexual harassment and then sue but also said […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court on Monday dodged a fight over the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance, ruling that a California atheist's ongoing custody […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court dealt a blow to environmental groups and labor unions Monday, ruling that Mexican trucks can rumble down U.S. highways without a federal […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court said Monday that victims of Nazi-era plundering can use U.S. courts to try to get their belongings back, handing a California woman […]

Byline: Ron Hutcheson and Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ President Bush's decision to line up a defense lawyer indicates he's worried about becoming entangled in a grand jury investigation into the […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson 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 […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court upheld a key provision of the Americans with Disabilities Act on Monday, siding with a paraplegic who sued the state of Tennessee […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ For civil rights advocates, the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling banning racial segregation in public schools was ground zero, the beginning […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ Late in the Supreme Court arguments last week over the Bush administration's jailing of two citizens as suspected terrorists, the president's advocate stripped the legal […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ A lawyer challenging the Bush administration's terrorism detentions told a skeptical Supreme Court Wednesday that citizens could be "locked up all over the country tomorrow, […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court said Wednesday that Pennsylvania's new congressional map might have been divided to benefit Republicans but it fell short of violating voters' constitutional […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson WASHINGTON _ The Bush administration's top lawyer told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the Constitution gives the president and vice president near-unassailable authority to make policy […]

Byline: Stephen Henderson and Frank Davies WASHINGTON _ In a major test of the president's authority, the U.S. Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with whether the United States can hold hundreds […]