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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - The California Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's last-minute plea to let him complete the sale of 11 State Government properties before he leaves office next week. Acting Chief Justice Patricia…

LINCOLN, NEB. - Mike Flood, the 35-year-old speaker of Nebraska's legislature, had a problem: He wanted to stop the state's well-known Abortion provider from offering late-term abortions. This Story Tests of 'Roe' more frequent since justices u…

WASHINGTON — For most of the last two decades, Supreme Court Conservatives led by Justice Antonin Scalia dominated the debates during oral arguments. They greeted advocates for liberal causes with sharp and sometimes caustic questions, putti…

Referring to primary challenges as a form of “sophisticated Cannibalism,” Specter called out to his moderate colleagues and would-be senators of this cycle: Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah, who lost his nomination at the party convention beca…

The Tea Party movement demonstrated its forcefulness on the national stage in November and now it's starting to get the kind of respect from the political establishment that just a few years ago would have been unthinkable for a Grassroots movemen…

Gov. Deval Patrick could announce a new Supreme Judicial Court nominee at any time and next week is scheduled to formally elevate Judge Roderick Ireland to Chief Justice of the state’s highest court. Ireland will become the first African-Am…

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) recently said that she's planning to kick off her congressional constitutional education classes for incoming representatives with a bang, now that conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has allegedly a…