Dec 11th, 2008 · Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn says if Illinois legislators do not begin impeachment hearings soon, he supports having the state attorney general going to the Supreme Court to remove Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office. Quinn talks about the reasons for his position.
Dec 9th, 2008 · The Supreme Court has heard arguments in the case of a man convicted of murder in Tennessee. Gary Cone wants to reopen the conviction or at least the sentence of death because the prosecution allegedly hid evidence that supported his defense.
Dec 9th, 2008 · The Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in the case of a man convicted of murder in Tennessee. He wants to reopen the conviction or at least the sentence of death, because persecutors allegedly hid evidence that supported his defense. State courts have said he doesn't have the right to present those arguments.
Dec 5th, 2008 · The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case early next year testing the power of the president to hold a person indefinitely in military custody who has been living in the United States. The case concerns a Qatari citizen who was arrested seven years ago in Illinois.
Dec 2nd, 2008 · Utilities want the Supreme Court to reinstate a Bush administration regulation that was overturned by lower courts. The regulation allowed utilities to consider the cost of the cleanest technology and not install it if fails a cost-benefit analysis.
Dec 2nd, 2008 · The U.S. Supreme Court hears an important environmental case Tuesday, testing the role of cost-benefit analysis in federal clean-water rules. At issue is how far power plants must go in protecting fish and wildlife.
Nov 21st, 2008 · A federal judge in Washington has ordered the Bush administration to release five detainees from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The men have been held there for seven years on evidence the judge finds insufficient. The ruling is the first by a trial judge since the Supreme Court declared in June that the Guantanamo prisoners have the right to challenge their detentions in U.S. courts.
Nov 15th, 2008 · This week the U.S. Supreme Court gave the Navy the OK to use sonar off the coast of California — environmentalists complain the sounds confuse whales. But it turns out the planet's oceans are actually getting louder anyway. Geochemist Peter Brewer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute talks about a recent study finding that global warming is changing the way sound travels underwater.