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In a 5-4 decision, the high court mandated a complete redistribution of personnel, equipment, and funds, "in a more constitutionally permissible manner." The majority, led by Justice Antonin Scalia, reasoned: "This question is very simple.

Democrats don't have the millennial vote locked up, Charlie Cook says. While millennials aren't anti-government, they are skeptical about government's ability to effectively deal with problems in large part because they haven't seen it work effectively.

Recently I listened to Oral Argument in the case, Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl , a very interesting, and incredibly contentious case out of South Carolina.

In the debate over the future of the Voting Rights Act, it sometimes becomes apparent that certain members of the Supreme Court are either oblivious to our nation's recent history or willfully ignore it.

The Supreme Court April 29 let stand a lower-court ruling that tossed out restrictive provisions of an Alabama immigration law.

"It is plainly true that in our society blacks have suffered discrimination immeasurably greater than any directed at other racial groups." These were the words of Justice Antonin Scalia , written in his concurring opinion in the 1989 Supreme Court case Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co.

When the federal government stopped enforcing our immigration laws, a number of states - led by Arizona - began passing laws to do the job the feds wouldn't do.

An attorney for the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center says the U.S. Supreme Court has turned down Alabama's appeal to revive portions of the state's immigration law.

In the debate over the future of the Voting Rights Act , it sometimes becomes apparent that certain members of the Supreme Court are either oblivious to our nation's recent history or willfully ignore it.

MOBILE, Ala. The Supreme Court has rejected Alabama's appeal to revive portions of a state immigration law, including a section that made it a crime to harbor people who are living in the country illegally.

Anyone keen on the Supreme Court's on-going arguments over the legality of certain parts of the Voter Rights Act surely has not forgotten Justice Antonio Scalia 's " racial entitlement " remarks from earlier this year-especially " The Crisis ," the NAACP's flagship publication.

As the Supreme Court debated last week over the federal Defense of Marriage Act, the 17-year-old law barring same-sex marriage, Justice Antonin Scalia noted the number of states that are permitting gays and lesbians to marry.

It seems likely that the Supreme Court will decide Hollingsworth v. Perry -- the appeal from a federal appellate court ruling overturning California's Proposition 8 state constitutional amendment -- on sociological or policy grounds concerning the merits or harms of same-sex marriage , rather than on the precise meaning of the federal constitution.

Wyatt Sassman, a third-year student at Vanderbilt University Law School, has won first place in the TBA Environmental Law Section's 2013 Jon E. Hastings Memorial Award Writing Competition .

Supreme Court justices on Tuesday opened a floodgate of questions about a water dispute pitting Texas against Oklahoma, with the eventual outcome still in doubt.

In an impassioned speech delivered at Saturday night's GLAAD Media Awards in downtown Los Angeles, entertainment attorney Steve Warren -- a regular fixture on The Hollywood Reporter 's annual Power Lawyers list -- railed against conservative members of the Supreme Court, and in particular Justice Antonin Scalia .

Anyone keen on the Supreme Court's on-going arguments over the legality of certain parts of the Voter Rights Act surely has not forgotten Justice Antonio Scalia 's " racial entitlement " remarks from earlier this year-especially " The Crisis ," the NAACP's flagship publication.

The White House told the Supreme Court it favored same-sex marriage. So did dozens of big corporations, a host of political and legal heavyweights - and 9-year-old Austin Covey.