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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Military Funeral Protesters

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount anti-gay protests outside military funerals, despite the pain they cause grieving families. The court voted 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The decision upheld an appeals...

House GOP Might Want to Skip Over Some Parts of Constitution

WASHINGTON -- It's Constitution Week on Capitol Hill. As the newly divided Congress files into town, incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner is making sure the tea party knows Republicans heard their message about the need to adhere to the nation's founding document. He has invited Chief Justice John Roberts to swear...

Roberts Casts Blame on Both Parties for Judicial Nomination Gridlock

WASHINGTON -- Republicans and Democrats must find a long-term solution to selecting federal judges, Chief Justice John Roberts says, while blaming both sides for the political gridlock of judicial nominations in the Senate. "Each political party has found it easy to turn on a dime from decrying to defending the blocking...

Opinion: Technical Difficulties at the Supreme Court

(June 1) -- If you're in America and not yet acquainted with cell phones, computers and the Internet, you must have spent the past decade under a rock. Or be a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Supreme Court justices lately have displayed a startling level of ignorance about computing and communication methods that many...

Background on chief justice john roberts

John Glover Roberts, Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is the 17th Chief Justice of the United States. He has served since 2005, having been nominated by President George W.

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