Ruth Bader Ginsburg News

Stephen Breyer knows how to tiptoe around emotional landmines. It was he who raised the issue of "sterile couples" when Yes on 8 attorney Charles Cooper argued that marriage laws are all about procreation and that domestic partnerships are sufficient for same-sex couples.

Frustrated that the Supreme Court was striking down some of his New Deal programs, President Frankin Roosevelt proposed adding six seats to the nine-member court, which he would fill with his own justices.

Spears [SCOTUSblog backgrounder] that an attorney's solicitation of clients is not a permissible purpose covered by the litigation exception to the Driver's Privacy Protection Act [text].

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Arizona cannot require voters to document their citizenship before allowing them to cast ballots in federal elections.

Drugmakers can be sued for paying rivals to delay low-cost versions of popular medicines, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a decision that rewrites the rules governing the release of generic drugs.

The Supreme Court says prosecutors can use a person's silence against them if it comes before he's told of his right to remain silent.

Arizona violated the federal "Motor Voter" law when it added a proof-of-citizenship requirement to standard voter-registration forms intended for use nationwide, the Supreme Court held Monday.

Doctors at Boston Children's Hospital have started the world's first hand transplant program for youngsters, a technique that has been used successfully on adults but not children.

To most non-lawyers, the Idaho-originated Supreme Court case of Reed v. Reed is a little obscure now, not one of those few like Roe v.

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court sit for their official photograph on October 8, 2010, at the Supreme Court.

Clockwise from top left, Justices Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, the dissenters in the Maryland DNA case.

On this Father's Day weekend, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Saturday unveiled a painting of his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, at the State Capitol.

For Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the argument that same-sex couples should be satisfied with civil unions or domestic partnerships probably has a familiar ring - and not a pretty one.

At least five and perhaps as many as eight of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court are millionaires according to recently released financial disclosures, and only two hold any consumer debt.

In addition to dissenting from Roe and favoring its overruling, White authored the Court's opinion in 1986 rejecting as "at best, facetious" the notion that the Constitution confers a right to homosexual sodomy.

"The J is for Jefferson," Justice Scalia says. "It's clearer if you read where I have the full phrase tattooed on my left thigh.

Davila [SCOTUSblog backgrounder] that judicial participation in plea negotiations does not automatically require vacatur of a defendant's guilty plea.

We're nearing the end of the Supreme Court's term. By the time June is over, all of the court's opinions will be handed down, and the justices will take a break before resuming at the end of summer.

The Constitution's Bill of Rights guarantees the right of Americans "to be secure in their persons" against "unreasonable searches and seizures" unless authorized by a court-issued search warrant.

In a unanimous decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that several California raisin farmers may proceed with their constitutional challenge to a New Deal-era farm control law designed to artificially inflate agricultural prices by restricting the supply of goods available for sale on the market.