Supreme Court takes middle road in DOMA, Prop 8, Schapiro writes in Monitor
In its two decisions that benefit same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court neither remains silent nor makes a definitive ruling.
In its two decisions that benefit same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court neither remains silent nor makes a definitive ruling.
The nation has long struggled over what to do with problem properties, a growing liability in a still-soft real estate market. And states and municipalities often lack the laws, tools and expertise to do much about it, Alexander asserts
Edward Snowden, whose disclosures have triggered broad debate over the balance between privacy and national security, has left Hong Kong and is in Moscow, apparently headed to Ecuador.
When the Supreme Court on Monday sent Fisher v. University of Texas, an affirmative action case, back to the lower court for a second look, supporters of race-conscious policies breathed a sigh of relief.
Immigration among Latinos and population growth among African-Americans constitute a voting majority that votes together cohesively. That obviously changes the politics and makes section 5 just unimportant in the larger context.
Emory Law Professor Michael Perry says the DOMA ruling will likely invite challenges to state same-sex marriage bans. But he doesn't expect those challenges to be filed in Georgia.
The U.S. Supreme Court has surprised just about everyone with its decision on affirmative action By a 7-to-1 vote, the court largely sidestepped making what could have been a sweeping ruling in a test case from Texas.
Mary L. Dudziak thinks that to get to the heart of a matter -- in law and in scholarship -- it can be helpful to start at the edges. To understand domestic law, she looks to its global impact; to understand contemporary war, she looks to its past.
When businesses give judges money, they usually get what they want.
Life will be much less stressful if you think of your home primarily as a consumption cost rather than as an investment.
The revelations this week that the federal government has been scooping up records of telephone calls inside the United States for seven years, and secretly collecting information from Internet companies on foreigners overseas for nearly six years, have elicited predictable outrage from liberals and civil libertarians.
Don't blame Russia for lack of intelligence sharing in Boston bombing suspect.