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The US Supreme Court on Thursday reheard oral arguments on whether police must continue to knock and announce themselves before entering a person’s home to seize evidence with a warrant in order for the...

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday considered whether a criminal defendant must prove a duress defense by a preponderance of the evidence or, instead, if the government must prove absence of duress beyond a...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Clark v. Arizona , 05-5966, a case in which the Court will decide the constitutionality of Arizona statutes governing...

The US Supreme Court said Friday that it will rehear oral arguments for death penalty case Kansas v. Marsh so that Justice Samuel Alito can break...

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor have both said in recent speeches that they have been the target of death threats. In a speech last...

The US Supreme Court Friday scheduled new oral arguments in a whistleblower free speech case where the Court initially deadlocked 4-4. In Garcetti v. Ceballos , a Los Angeles county prosecutor claimed...

New US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito cast his first vote on the country's highest court on Wednesday in a decision to deny a request to vacate the stay of execution for...

The US Senate has approved the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to serve as an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court by a vote of 58-42 . Alito will replace Justice Sandra Day...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee completed its questioning of Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito on Thursday, the fourth day of its confirmation hearings for the Third Circuit jurist. Alito, who appears...

JURIST Guest Columnist Stephen Gilles of Quinnipiac University School of Law says that after a third day of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito seems to be on his way towards confirmation given his performance...