LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The winner ofArkansas' race for state Supreme Court chief justice won't change its conservative majority and it hasn't drawn the heavy spending of Republican groups that have targeted past campaigns. But the outcome still will make history...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A justice who wrote a blistering dissent when theArkansasSupreme Courtblocked an abortion-rights measurefrom the ballot has been elected to lead the court. Justice Karen Baker defeated Justice Rhonda Wood to replace Chief Justice Dan Kemp in Tuesday...
In 1973, headlines like this one in the New York Daily News informed America that the Supreme Court had ruled in favor of Jane Roe, an unwed mother who filed suit after seeking an abortion in Texas, which was a felony in that state and many others. The Roe v. Wade ruling determined ...
(the first amendment prohibits government regulation of independent political expenditures by non-profit corporations — which has been over-simplified to the concept that money equals speech), it seems likely the Supreme Court is poised to strike down another limitation that burdens judicial candidates...
The majority also saw no viewpoint discrimination in Forbes's exclusion. Justice Kennedy, who authored the majority opinion, was principally moved by the trial jury's finding that Forbes was rejected as a participant by the debate managers not because they disliked his politics but because they...
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court voted to stop a recount that was still being conducted, awarding Bush the presidency which made him and President George H.W. Bush the only father-son presidential duo since the time of the Adams' at the dawn of the Republic. The Los Angeles Times...
Hodges Supreme Court decision. The landmark civil rights case determined that states may not deny same-sex couples the right to get married. It was the capstone achievement of a movement that began with the Stonewall Riots nearly half a century earlier in 1969....
A federal appeals court is hearing arguments over Arkansas' first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The move could speed up the case’s march toward the U.S. Supreme Court.
A cable provider in Arkansas is dropping its appeal of a ruling that prevented it from airing a conservative group's attack ad against a state Supreme Court justice seeking re-election.Comcast of Arkansas asked the court Thursday to dismiss its appeal of
Supreme Court ruled in favor of Justice Reynolds, a teacher at Zion Parochial School who had been teaching German to a 10-year-old student, claiming it was an invasion of the 14th Amendment. [Pictured: Justices of the Supreme Court (and others) in 1923, Chief Justice Taft is front and ...