Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/701 politics Supreme Court News en-us Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:23:08 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/701 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091126/ts_nm/us_honduras_court nm/20091126/us_honduras_court Reuters topstories Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:23:08 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091126/ts_nm/us_honduras_court"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091126/i/r1062404498.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=edoXlCmGNbUXTXU_QUUcow--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya protest against the upcoming election, outside the National Congress in Tegucigalpa November 25, 2009. Honduran lawmakers will wait until after a Nov. 29 presidential election to decide whether to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya, delaying a vote central to a U.S.-led deal to end months of political turmoil. The posters read, "No to coup elections" (L) and "Democracy with a restitution of Mel Zelaya" (R). REUTERS/Edgard Garrido" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Honduras' Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that ousted President Manuel Zelaya cannot legally return to office, dimming the possibility of his reinstatement after a June coup, court sources said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091126/ts_nm/us_honduras_court"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091126/i/r1062404498.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=edoXlCmGNbUXTXU_QUUcow--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya protest against the upcoming election, outside the National Congress in Tegucigalpa November 25, 2009. Honduran lawmakers will wait until after a Nov. 29 presidential election to decide whether to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya, delaying a vote central to a U.S.-led deal to end months of political turmoil. The posters read, "No to coup elections" (L) and "Democracy with a restitution of Mel Zelaya" (R). REUTERS/Edgard Garrido" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091125/ap_on_re_us/us_kentucky_lethal_injection ap/20091125/us_kentucky_lethal_injection AP us Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:02:53 GMT AP - The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state improperly adopted the same three-drug lethal injection protocol that was upheld in the nation's highest court and is used by dozens of other states. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091125/ap_on_re_us/us_firefighters_lawsuit ap/20091125/us_firefighters_lawsuit AP us Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:50:37 GMT AP - A federal judge has ordered Connecticut officials to promote 14 firefighters who won a reverse discrimination case in a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_re_us/us_supreme_court_scalia ap/20091118/us_supreme_court_scalia AP us Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:57:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_re_us/us_supreme_court_scalia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091117/capt.a54040f563b94204b867d21e5f4de61b.supreme_court_scalia_ohpv101.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=hq54xk2mDLnNZSR1njUSHA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)" border="0" /></a>AP - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (AN'-toh-nihn skuh-LEE'-uh) has said in a speech at Ohio State University the Constitution is best treated as an original document within the context of its historical creation, not as a text subject to modern reinterpretation.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091118/ap_on_re_us/us_supreme_court_scalia"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091117/capt.a54040f563b94204b867d21e5f4de61b.supreme_court_scalia_ohpv101.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=hq54xk2mDLnNZSR1njUSHA--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="photo" title="US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_re_us/us_dred_scott_plaque ap/20091117/us_dred_scott_plaque AP us Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:21:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_re_us/us_dred_scott_plaque"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091117/capt.5ca335a623e54044b59ac1d6289b3ca4.dred_scott_plaque_mdrc102.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=FljYp11R9zHy1GHK8NmP2g--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Maryland Court of Appeals Chief Judge Robert Bell, center, applauds after unveiling a plaque honoring Dred and Harriet Scott during a ceremony Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, in Frederick, Md. City officials placed the plaque about the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision affirming slavery near a statue of Roger Brooke Taney, the onetime Frederick lawyer who wrote the inflammatory opinion. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)" border="0" /></a>AP - More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming slavery, a Maryland city unveiled a plaque Tuesday to educate visitors about the opinion and the local man who wrote it &mdash; and to quell a local controversy.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_re_us/us_dred_scott_plaque"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091117/capt.5ca335a623e54044b59ac1d6289b3ca4.dred_scott_plaque_mdrc102.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=FljYp11R9zHy1GHK8NmP2g--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="Maryland Court of Appeals Chief Judge Robert Bell, center, applauds after unveiling a plaque honoring Dred and Harriet Scott during a ceremony Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, in Frederick, Md. City officials placed the plaque about the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision affirming slavery near a statue of Roger Brooke Taney, the onetime Frederick lawyer who wrote the inflammatory opinion. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091117/ap_on_go_su_co/us_sotomayor_celebrity ap/20091117/us_sotomayor_celebrity AP politics Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:40:09 GMT AP - Apparently, no one told Sonia Sotomayor that Supreme Court justices are supposed to be circumspect, emerging from their marble palace mainly to dispense legal wisdom to law schools, judges' conferences and lawyers' meetings. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091116/us_nm/us_nfl_redskins nm/20091116/us_nfl_redskins Reuters us Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:17:04 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091116/us_nm/us_nfl_redskins"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091116/i/r39577377.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=vFimjDVrp3QBkcR6TgNnkQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Washington Redskins' Fred Davis (86) fights to break free from Cincinnati Bengals' Brandon Johnson during the first half of their NFL game Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 14, 2008. REUTERS/John Sommers II" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The Supreme Court said on Monday that it rejected an appeal by six American Indians in their long-running legal challenge of the Washington Redskins' name, which they find racially offensive.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091116/us_nm/us_nfl_redskins"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20091116/i/r39577377.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=vFimjDVrp3QBkcR6TgNnkQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="Washington Redskins' Fred Davis (86) fights to break free from Cincinnati Bengals' Brandon Johnson during the first half of their NFL game Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 14, 2008. REUTERS/John Sommers II" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091116/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_redskins ap/20091116/us_supreme_court_redskins AP politics Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:06:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091116/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_redskins"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091115/capt.30cd63257bdd453fa04e647570aaaa94.broncos_redskins_football_fdx112.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=OEp70CUhcYEM5v2.4_ZPHg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="Washington Redskins quarterback Jason Campbell talks with head coach Jim Zorn during the NFL football game against the Denver Broncos, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009 in Landover, Md. Washington won 27-17. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)" border="0" /></a>AP - The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a group of Native Americans who think the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins football team is offensive.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091116/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_redskins"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091115/capt.30cd63257bdd453fa04e647570aaaa94.broncos_redskins_football_fdx112.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=OEp70CUhcYEM5v2.4_ZPHg--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="photo" title="Washington Redskins quarterback Jason Campbell talks with head coach Jim Zorn during the NFL football game against the Denver Broncos, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009 in Landover, Md. Washington won 27-17. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091116/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_commencement_religion ap/20091116/us_supreme_court_commencement_religion AP politics Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:50:05 GMT AP - The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a student who complained that high school officials violated her constitutional rights when they turned off her microphone during her religion-tinged graduation speech. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/ap_on_go_su_co/us_obit_o_connor_husband ap/20091112/us_obit_o_connor_husband AP politics Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:34:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/ap_on_go_su_co/us_obit_o_connor_husband"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091111/capt.eee7fc6c417d436ab4d919dc7f7287d7.obit_o_connor_husband_wx101.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=6ev1wf6l_oRQs.mJOVJMfQ--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="FILE - In this March 9, 2004 file photo, then-Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her husband John, attend an awards ceremony in Huntington, N.Y. John J. O'Connor III, has died. The court said the 79-year-old O'Connor died Wednesday in Phoenix, Ariz., of complications arising from Alzheimer's disease. (AP Photo/Zack Seckler, FILE)" border="0" /></a>AP - John J. O'Connor III, the husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, has died.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/ap_on_go_su_co/us_obit_o_connor_husband"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091111/capt.eee7fc6c417d436ab4d919dc7f7287d7.obit_o_connor_husband_wx101.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=6ev1wf6l_oRQs.mJOVJMfQ--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this March 9, 2004 file photo, then-Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her husband John, attend an awards ceremony in Huntington, N.Y. John J. O'Connor III, has died. The court said the 79-year-old O'Connor died Wednesday in Phoenix, Ariz., of complications arising from Alzheimer's disease. (AP Photo/Zack Seckler, FILE)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091111/ts_alt_afp/usalzheimersjusticeoconnor afp/20091111/usalzheimersjusticeoconnor AFP us Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:16:41 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091111/ts_alt_afp/usalzheimersjusticeoconnor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091111/capt.photo_1257981342780-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=CCHdOor9C2MyKCNs5YKwPQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="John O'Connor, the husband of retired US Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, pictured in May 2009, died Wednesday in Arizona after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, the US high court announced.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)" border="0" /></a>AFP - John O'Connor, the husband of retired US Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, died Wednesday in Arizona after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, the US high court announced.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091111/ts_alt_afp/usalzheimersjusticeoconnor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091111/capt.photo_1257981342780-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=CCHdOor9C2MyKCNs5YKwPQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="John O'Connor, the husband of retired US Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, pictured in May 2009, died Wednesday in Arizona after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, the US high court announced.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091109/ap_on_re_us/us_supreme_court_death_penalty ap/20091109/us_supreme_court_death_penalty AP us Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:38:54 GMT AP - The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated the death penalty against an Ohio man who killed and mutilated a man he met in a gay bar in 1985, rejecting a claim that his lawyers erred during the sentencing phase of his trial. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091109/ap_on_re_us/us_sniper_execution ap/20091109/us_sniper_execution AP us Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:48:32 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091109/ap_on_re_us/us_sniper_execution"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091110/capt.photo_1257832762368-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=5juM7A2koiihdrZtLob8Ww--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad (C) addresses the court in Manassas, Virginia, along with his attorneys Peter Greenspun (L) and Jonathan Shapiro, prior to being sentenced to death in March, 2004. Muhammad, who killed 10 people in a 2002 shooting spree around the US capital, was due to be put to death Tuesday after the nation's top court denied a stay of execution.(AFP/Pool/File/Steve Helber)" border="0" /></a>AP - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday's scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091109/ap_on_re_us/us_sniper_execution"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091110/capt.photo_1257832762368-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=5juM7A2koiihdrZtLob8Ww--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad (C) addresses the court in Manassas, Virginia, along with his attorneys Peter Greenspun (L) and Jonathan Shapiro, prior to being sentenced to death in March, 2004. Muhammad, who killed 10 people in a 2002 shooting spree around the US capital, was due to be put to death Tuesday after the nation's top court denied a stay of execution.(AFP/Pool/File/Steve Helber)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091109/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_juvenile_sentences ap/20091109/us_supreme_court_juvenile_sentences AP politics Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:26:43 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091109/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_juvenile_sentences"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.42b44b2c8ca346a095de3c56ff4dfd4a.supreme_court_juvenile_sentences_wxsc301.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=3iGO.FU5yGVMTYJYaBgKbQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="This 2007 photo provided by Equal Justice Initiative shows inmate Joe Sullivan, 31, at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Lake City, Fla. Sullivan raped an elderly woman when he was 13-years-old, was judged incorrigible, and sentenced to life in prison without parole. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, that locking up juveniles and throwing away the key is cruel and unusual punishment, and thus unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Glenn Paul)" border="0" /></a>AP - A seemingly divided Supreme Court wrestled Monday with whether teenagers can be locked away forever for their crimes. The question arose in two cases involving Florida men who are serving life prison terms with no chance of parole for crimes they committed as teenagers. Their lawyers argue that the sentences for people so young are cruel and unusual, in violation of the Constitution, because young people have greater capacity to change.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091109/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_juvenile_sentences"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.42b44b2c8ca346a095de3c56ff4dfd4a.supreme_court_juvenile_sentences_wxsc301.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=3iGO.FU5yGVMTYJYaBgKbQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="This 2007 photo provided by Equal Justice Initiative shows inmate Joe Sullivan, 31, at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Lake City, Fla. Sullivan raped an elderly woman when he was 13-years-old, was judged incorrigible, and sentenced to life in prison without parole. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, that locking up juveniles and throwing away the key is cruel and unusual punishment, and thus unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Glenn Paul)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091109/pl_afp/usjusticeyouth afp/20091109/usjusticeyouth AFP politics Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:54:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091109/pl_afp/usjusticeyouth"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091109/capt.photo_1257788653869-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=IwaNlCRl4o4GxzDOjxaz2A--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="People line up in front of the United States Supreme Court building to hear arguments in two cases coming before the court November 4, in Washington, DC. The top US court Monday opened hearings into whether juveniles can be sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes which do not involve murder, a punishment handed down to 109 youngsters now behind bars.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A deeply divided US Supreme Court opened hearings Monday into whether juveniles can be sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes that do not involve murder.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091109/pl_afp/usjusticeyouth"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091109/capt.photo_1257788653869-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=IwaNlCRl4o4GxzDOjxaz2A--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="People line up in front of the United States Supreme Court building to hear arguments in two cases coming before the court November 4, in Washington, DC. The top US court Monday opened hearings into whether juveniles can be sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes which do not involve murder, a punishment handed down to 109 youngsters now behind bars.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091109/us_nm/us_usa_crime_juveniles nm/20091109/us_usa_crime_juveniles Reuters us Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:49:25 GMT Reuters - U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared reluctant on Monday to make it unconstitutional for any juvenile who commits a crime other than murder to be sentenced to life in prison without possible release. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20091109/ts_csm/aminors csm/20091109/aminors The Christian Science Monitor topstories Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - A sharply divided US Supreme Court on Monday debated whether to invalidate state laws that permit juveniles to be sentenced to life in prison without parole for nonhomicide crimes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091108/pl_afp/usyouthcourtsentence afp/20091108/usyouthcourtsentence AFP politics Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:05:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091108/pl_afp/usyouthcourtsentence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091108/capt.photo_1257713689965-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=WFtpZZxse81nnPclSky4kg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="A locked cellblock at a prison in the US. The US Supreme Court will Monday wrestle with the merits of convicting juveniles who have not committed murder to life in prison without the possibility of parole -- a fate shared by 109 US prisoners, almost all of whom are non-white.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The US Supreme Court will Monday wrestle with the merits of convicting juveniles who have not committed murder to life in prison without the possibility of parole -- a fate shared by 109 US prisoners, almost all of whom are non-white.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091108/pl_afp/usyouthcourtsentence"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091108/capt.photo_1257713689965-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=WFtpZZxse81nnPclSky4kg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="A locked cellblock at a prison in the US. The US Supreme Court will Monday wrestle with the merits of convicting juveniles who have not committed murder to life in prison without the possibility of parole -- a fate shared by 109 US prisoners, almost all of whom are non-white.(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_governor ap/20091105/us_sc_governor AP us Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:43:29 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_governor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091124/capt.b11214788fec40bebce9c0f192505c0b.sc_governor_scvp103.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=npyHM2UtVk079Z2btaP2jQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="Rep. F.G. 'Greg' Delleney speaks before a legislative panel in Columbia, S.C. Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 about Gov. Mark Sanford's dereliction of his duties by leaving the state in June to see his lover. In background is Rep. James H. Harrison and Patrick Dennis, chief counsel for the impeachment committee. (AP Photo/Virginia Postic)" border="0" /></a>AP - South Carolina's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an ethics investigation into Gov. Mark Sanford's travel must be made public, clearing the way for lawmakers considering impeachment to review a report on the probe.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_re_us/us_sc_governor"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091124/capt.b11214788fec40bebce9c0f192505c0b.sc_governor_scvp103.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=npyHM2UtVk079Z2btaP2jQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="Rep. F.G. 'Greg' Delleney speaks before a legislative panel in Columbia, S.C. Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 about Gov. Mark Sanford's dereliction of his duties by leaving the state in June to see his lover. In background is Rep. James H. Harrison and Patrick Dennis, chief counsel for the impeachment committee. (AP Photo/Virginia Postic)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/scotus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20091105/ts_csm/asueprosecutors csm/20091105/asueprosecutors The Christian Science Monitor topstories Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - The US Supreme Court on Wednesday took up the difficult issue of what to do about unscrupulous prosecutors willing to induce false testimony and hide exculpatory evidence to convict innocent defendants.