Mark Sherman

March 30, 2012 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - The arguments are done and the case has been submitted, as Chief Justice John Roberts says at the end of every Supreme Court argument. Now the justices will wrestle with what to do with President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. They have a range of options, from upholding the law to striking it down in its entirety.

By Mark Sherman and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

8 minute read

July 28, 2006 | National Law Journal

Threats against federal judges are on a record-setting pace this year, nearly 18 months after the family of a federal judge was killed in Chicago.

By Mark Sherman/The Associated Press

4 minute read

May 06, 2009 | Daily Report Online

PHILADELPHIA AP - Supreme Court Justice David Souter, momentarily choked with emotion, bid an affectionate farewell Tuesday to judges and lawyers he has worked with for nearly two decades.Souter spoke at an annual conference of judges and lawyers from Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He handles matters that come to the Supreme Court from those states.

By MARK SHERMAN

3 minute read

April 19, 2011 | Daily Report Online

The Supreme Court appeared deeply skeptical Tuesday about allowing states to sue electric utilities to force cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.Both conservative and liberal justices questioned whether a federal judge could deal with the complex issue of global warming, a topic they suggested is better left to Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency.

By Mark Sherman

4 minute read

January 09, 2008 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - The Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to strike down the nation's strictest requirement that voters show photo identification before being allowed to cast a ballot.The justices heard arguments over an Indiana law, passed in 2005, that's backed by Republicans as a prudent way to deter voter fraud.

By MARK SHERMAN

4 minute read

October 10, 2007 | National Law Journal

The Supreme Court on Tuesday terminated a lawsuit from a man who claims he was abducted and tortured by the CIA, effectively endorsing Bush administration arguments that state secrets would be revealed if the case were allowed to proceed.

By Mark Sherman

4 minute read

June 20, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Americans overwhelmingly want the president and Congress to get to work on a new bill to change the health care system if the Supreme Court strikes down President Barack Obama's 2010 overhaul as unconstitutional, a new poll finds.

By Mark Sherman

4 minute read

September 29, 2011 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - Raising prospects for a major election-year ruling, the Obama administration launched its Supreme Court defense of its landmark health care overhaul Wednesday, appealing what it called a "fundamentally flawed" appeals court decision that declared the law's central provision unconstitutional.

By Mark Sherman

6 minute read

October 04, 2006 | National Law Journal

The Supreme Court plunged into arguments Tuesday over the deportation of immigrants convicted of crimes, the first case in a term expected to more clearly define the Court's direction under Chief Justice John Roberts.

By Mark Sherman

4 minute read

October 09, 2007 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - The SupremeCourt on Tuesday terminated a lawsuit from a man who claims he was abducted and tortured by the CIA, effectively endorsing Bush administration arguments that state secrets would be revealed if the case were allowed to proceed.Khaled el-Masri, 44, alleged that he was kidnapped by CIA agents in Europe and held in an Afghan prison for four months in a case of mistaken identity.

By Mark Sherman

4 minute read