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In this Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 file photo, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C. makes a comment during a live televised Senate debate with Democratic challenger Deborah Ross at UNC-TV studios in Research Triangle Park, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. Polls show Burr and Democrat challenger Deborah Ross are running neck-and-neck in a race that could help decide control of the senate.
Stanley Fisher recently stated the obvious by saying "the problems with the economy need a fiscal solution, not a monetary solution." . Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently lamented that "the nation's capital is broken and its democratic institutions of government were being destroyed by an inability to debate issues with civility."
For the first time in over 50 years, the Voting Rights Act does not have the power to check state laws for discriminatory practices Voting judges Larry Wood, left, and Nikki Sartori look on as voter Dan Achziger puts his ballot in the scanning unit at New Windsor Middle School in Baltimore on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. The impending presidential election will be the first election in more than five decades that voters will not be under the full protection of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 - an act which was passed during the Civil Rights Era to protect minority voters.
"The clothes on the hanger do nothing. The clothes on the woman do everything," Breyer said during an argument about whether the design of cheerleading uniforms can be protected under copyright law.
Gay Republican billionaire and Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel says he has had not had conversations with Trump about LGBT rights and the Supreme Court, yet remains confident that Trump will expand and not reduce rights if elected president. Thiel made his remarks during a event at the National Press Club in Washington where he gave prepared remarks and took questions about his support of Trump, his funding the lawsuit that brought down Gawker, and more.
This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Bill Kuenzel, sentenced to death for the shooting death of store clerk Linda Jean Offord in 1987. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday Oct. 31, 2016 declined to hear an appeal by the inmate, who claims he is innocent.
Ehlena Fry, 12, of Michigan, sits with her service dog Wonder, while speaking to reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, following oral arguments on a case where Fry, who has cerebral palsy, wants to sue school officials for refusing to let her bring a service dog to class.
The Supreme Court on Monday debated Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools - a case in which a 12-year-old girl with cerebral palsy was denied the ability to bring her service dog to school - and the justices were sympathetic to the girl.
Last month, on the 45th anniversary of the infamous Attica Prison uprising, tens of thousands of US inmates launched a nationwide protest that continues today, according to advocates who helped organize the effort. The inmates' grievances are as varied as the states they came from: Pennies for labor in South Carolina, racial discrimination in California, excessive force in Michigan.
While your campaign shirts, hats, socks and buttons look great during a trip to the mall, leave them at home when you head to the polls. You could be turned away from voting in Texas if you're sporting your campaign gear, according to Alicia Pierce, a spokeswoman for the Texas Secretary of State's office.
The US Supreme Court unexpectedly announced Friday it will take up a case on transgender bathroom rights for the first time next year. In this Monday Aug. 22, 2016 file photo, transgender high school student Gavin Grimm poses in front of his home in Gloucester, Va.
AP FILE PHOTO In this Aug. 22, 2016 file photo, transgender high school student Gavin Grimm poses in Gloucester, Va. The Supreme Court will take up transgender rights for the first time in the case of a Virginia school board that wants to prevent a transgender teenager from using the boys' bathroom at his high school.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on a case involving school bathroom rules for transgender students sometime next year. The high court will hear the case of Gavin Grimm, a 17-year-old transgender student at Gloucester High School in Virginia.
On the night of October 27, Jerry Gordon died at the age of 88. He had been the first attorney to file a ballot access lawsuit in federal court against a state law requiring a very high number of signatures. He filed that case in January 1968 against Ohio, which then required 433,100 valid signatures for a new party to get on the ballot.
The Supreme Court will take up transgender rights for the first time in the case of a Virginia school board that wants to prevent a transgender teenager from using the boys' bathroom at his high school. The justices said Friday they will hear the appeal from the Gloucester County school board sometime next year.
The Supreme Court on Friday said it will decide whether the Obama administration may require public school systems to let transgender students use bathrooms that align with their gender identity, putting the court again at the center of a divisive social issue. School districts across the country are split on how to accommodate transgender students in the face of conflicting guidance from courts, the federal government and, in some cases, state legislatures that have passed laws requiring people to use public restrooms that coincide with the sex on their birth certificates.
A U.S. appeals court is affirming the conviction of a Pennsylvania man who posted violent rap lyrics on Facebook that took aim at his estranged wife, an elementary school and the FBI. The ruling comes after the U.S. Supreme Court said the jury should have weighed his intent and not just the lyrics.
Sen. Ted Cruz's suggestion of an indefinite Supreme Court vacancy under a President Hillary Clinton raises questions about the credibility and integrity of Republicans who have said the next president should get to the choose who fills the vacancy, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Thursday. Earnest was asked during Thursday's White House press briefing about the Texas Republican's statement that there is a long historical precedent for a Supreme Court operating with fewer justices.
One day after being formally charged with criminal contempt of federal Judge G. Murray Snow in the civil rights case Melendres v. Arpaio , Sheriff Joe Arpaio's new Washington, DC-lawyers are asking Snow to recuse himself - get this - because Snow regularly communicates with the monitor he appointed to help ensure the sheriff's compliance with his orders.
In this Jan. 26, 2012 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. Thomas says the Supreme Court confirmation process is an example of how the nation's capital is "broken in some ways."