Jolie's decision spotlights gene-patent controversy

Angelina Jolie's genes threatened to kill her. But, for the time being anyway, she doesn't own them.

Requiring warrants for blood draws is valuable safeguard

The following editorial appeared Sunday in the Los Angeles Times:

Supreme Court rejects routine no-warrant DUI blood tests

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police usually must try to obtain a search warrant from a judge before ordering blood tests for drunken-driving suspects.

Supreme Court declines to hear gun-rights case

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court left in doubt Monday whether gun owners have a Second Amendment right to carry a firearm in public.

Justices edgy about gay marriage, an issue that won't go away

Listening to the Supreme Court hear arguments in the same-sex marriage cases was like watching a novice diver inch to the edge of the high board for the first time.

Let's hope court does right thing on gay marriage

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Marriage case should make both sides nervous

"Under the Constitution, the regulation and control of marital and family relationships are reserved to the states."

Day labor provision in Arizona's SB 1070 unconstitutional, appeals court rules

PHOENIX — A part of Arizona's 2010 immigration law aimed at day laborers and those who hire them is unconstitutional and unenforceable, a federal appeals court ruled today.

Arizona asks Supreme Court to allow execution of Bisbee man’s killer

Arizona is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the state to execute a 70-year-old death-row inmate for killing a Bisbee man more than three decades ago.

Voting Rights Act needs 21st century update

Progressives are remarkably uninterested in progress. Social Security is 78 years old and myriad social improvements have added 17 years to life expectancy since 1935, yet progressives insist the program remain frozen, like a fly in amber.

Court must defer to Congress on Voting Rights Act

The following editorial appeared Thursday in the Washington Post:

Section 5 of Voting Rights Act must be preserved

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case from Shelby County, Ala., challenging the constitutionality of Section 5 of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, our nation's most effective tool in combating racial discrimination in voting.

Supreme Court to consider eliminating political contribution limit

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has agreed to go beyond its controversial Citizens United decision and consider striking down the limit on the total amount that wealthy persons may give to candidates and political parties.

Asarco loses appeal of emissions rule

The U.S. Supreme Court left intact federal limits on sulfur-dioxide emissions from power plants and other industrial facilities, turning away an appeal by Tucson-based Asarco, a copper-producing unit of Grupo Mexico.

Supreme Court may have set up health-care act for failure

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Supreme Court to review same-sex marriage cases

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday decided to tackle the same-sex marriage issue head on, agreeing to review the legal challenge to California’s Proposition 8 and another case involving the federal government’s ban on benefits for same-sex couples.

Supreme Court will hear gay marriage cases

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will take up California’s ban on same-sex marriage, a case that could give the justices the chance to rule on whether gay Americans have the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals.

Supreme Court asked to block Arizona execution

PHOENIX - An Arizona inmate's lawyers on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block his scheduled execution Wednesday, arguing that lower courts unfairly denied him a hearing on potential evidence for possible leniency in sentencing for the brutal killing of two 13-year-old girls.