Mark Sherman

June 28, 2012 | Daily Report Online

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

By Mark Sherman

8 minute read

April 18, 2007 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP _ The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.

By Mark Sherman

5 minute read

October 02, 2009 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - Not even Supreme Court justices are immune from the economy.Justice Sonia Sotomayor plans to keep her apartment in New York for the time being, even as she gets a place in Washington."Right now I - like many other Americans, it would not be wise for me to sell my home in New York because the market is so low," Sotomayor said in an interview with the C-SPAN network for a documentary on the court.

By MARK SHERMAN

4 minute read

June 08, 2007 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - What do Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy lack that the other seven SupremeCourt justices have in abundanceMoney, according to annual financial disclosure reports released Friday.At least six and possibly seven justices are millionaires. Then there are Kennedy and Thomas, who between them don't have a million bucks - even after Thomas received a $166,000 advance for his autobiography due out in October.

By Mark Sherman

3 minute read

June 11, 2007 | National Law Journal

What do Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy lack that the other Supreme Court justices have in abundance? Money, according to annual financial disclosure reports released Friday, which show at least six and possibly seven justices to be millionaires. The justices also reported earnings, expense-paid trips and gifts -- including a rifle valued at $600 that was presented to Justice Antonin Scalia when he spoke to the National Wild Turkey Foundation.

By Mark Sherman

3 minute read

January 13, 2009 | National Law Journal

Days before the first black president takes office, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider overturning a key feature of the main federal law that ensures access to the polls by minorities. The justices said they will review a lower court ruling upholding a provision of the Voting Rights Act that requires all or parts of 16 states with a history of racial discrimination, most in the South, to get approval before implementing any changes in the way elections are held.

By Mark Sherman

4 minute read

April 06, 2010 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - Two experienced federal judges and the Obama administration's top Supreme Court lawyer are widely considered the leading candidates for the next high court opening if Justice John Paul Stevens retires this year.Stevens, 89, is expected to decide soon whether to step down after more than 34 years on the court.

By MARK SHERMAN

5 minute read

October 29, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark civil rights law that has opened voting booths to millions of African-Americans.

By Jay Reeves and Mark Sherman

5 minute read

May 21, 2013 | New York Law Journal

The U.S. Supreme Court said yesterday it will review a Second Circuit ruling that held that the town of Greece, in suburban Rochester, violated the Constitution by opening nearly every meeting over an 11-year span with prayers that stressed Christianity.

By Mark Sherman

3 minute read

October 01, 2007 | Law.com

Breaking his 16-year public silence on his bitter confirmation hearings, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says Anita Hill was a mediocre employee who was used by political opponents to make claims she had been sexually harassed. Thomas writes about Hill, his former employee in two government agencies, and the allegations that nearly derailed his nomination to the high court in 1991 in his autobiography, "My Grandfather's Son," which goes on sale today.

By Mark Sherman

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