Supreme Court News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson has announced he will oppose the nomination of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court, making him the first Democrat to declare against her. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan saw the first crack Friday in a so-far solid base of Democratic support for her virtually certain confirmation next week, when centrist Sen. Ben Nelson said he would vote "no." Full Story »

WASHINGTON - A congresswoman wants the Supreme Court to reopen its iconic front entrance to the public. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Judd Gregg says he plans to vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says judges can look to foreign law for good ideas without diminishing their ability to apply U.S. law faithfully. Full Story »

BOZEMAN, Mont. - Antonin Scalia believes Supreme Court justices are all too often deciding the nation's morals from the bench. He thinks the nomination process has turned into "absurd political theater." And he has grown to loathe the "silly spectacle" surrounding State of the Union speeches. Full Story »

PHOENIX - The showdown over Arizona's immigration law played out in court and on Phoenix's sun-splashed streets on Thursday, as the state sought to reinstate key parts of the measure and angry protesters chanted that they refused to "live in fear." Dozens were arrested. Full Story »

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Washington state's Supreme Court has lifted the stay of execution for a death row inmate who claimed the state's method of lethal injection violated constitutional bans on cruel and unusual punishment. Full Story »

SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah Supreme Court decision that overturns polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs' 2007 criminal conviction won't automatically make him a free man. Even if Utah doesn't retry him, Texas and federal prosecutors are waiting to move forward with their own cases. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is calling Elena Kagan "a dangerous, progressive, political" nominee for the Supreme Court. Full Story »

Olympia J. Snowe of Maine on Wednesday became the fourth Republican senator to announce she plans to vote to confirm Elena Kagan as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe says she plans to vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice. Full Story »

SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial of a polygamist leader of a breakaway Mormon sect, who was convicted of forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her first cousin. Full Story »

TRENTON, N.J. - The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to hear a case from six same-sex couples seeking the right to marry, saying the case needs to wind its way through the lower courts first. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Republican Senator Susan Collins said Friday that she would vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice, breaking with her party to back President Barack Obama's nominee. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Two new groups — one Republican-leaning, the other pro-Democratic — seeking to capitalize on a Supreme Court ruling allowing the use of unlimited donations for ads targeting candidates have gotten the go-ahead from election officials. Full Story »

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has won the support of a second Republican senator in advance of her expected confirmation to fill the seat of retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. Full Story »

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, breaking with the GOP on an election-year Supreme Court nomination, on Wednesday became the second in his party to announce he would vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a justice. Full Story »