No shortage of other shows in D.C.

- Washington, D.C., doesn’t get to host Mardi Gras or the Super Bowl, so the presidential inauguration is our spectacle.

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Award to Justice Breyer spurs Catholic protest

Fordham University's plan to give an award to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has drawn criticism from alumni and the leader of the Catholic church in New York over Breyer's support for abortion rights.

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Breyer cites Israeli court decision outlawing torture

Supreme Court justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia, frequently on opposite sides of controversial cases, have shared a stage to debate their contrasting views of the Constitution.

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A Selection of Breyer's Hypotheticals

A sampling of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's colorful use of hypothetical examples over the years:

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Breyer, Court Master of the 'What If?'

The nine justices in black robes file into the Supreme Court consumed with thoughts about the great legal issues of the day. Only one of them is likely to ask questions involving raccoons, an unruly son, pet oysters or even the dreaded "tomato children."

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Is Breyer floating a Guantanamo solution?

WASHINGTON - When a Supreme Court justice mentions an idea of how Congress might solve a pending national security problem, you pay attention.

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Justice Breyer Goes 0-3 on NPR News Quiz

Here's what Justice Stephen Breyer revealed about the Supreme Court in his appearance on a radio quiz show: His judicial robe gathers no lint because it's synthetic.

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Breyer: Court Should Aid Minority Rights

Justice Stephen G. Breyer says the Supreme Court must promote the political rights of minorities and look beyond the Constitution's text when necessary to ensure that "no one gets too powerful."

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After watching the Saddleback Forum this weekend, did you find it a bit disingenuous that McCain said he wouldn't vote to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter or John Paul Stevens to the court?

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During his weekend interview with Rev. Rick Warren, Sen. John McCain said that if he were president he would have never nominated Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter or John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court.

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We wanted to know: Is it true that liberal justices are more partisan than conservatives? Who is the most partisan member of the Supreme Court? Who the most neutral?

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The Supreme Court has in recent years whittled away at the exclusionary rule by limiting its applicability and creating exceptions to it. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

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"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State": How the Supreme Court Got It Wrong (But Not How You Think)

Today, in District of Columbia v.

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This is actually a pretty fair summary of how the arguments went in front of the US Supreme Court on the validity of the D.C.

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It's no secret that the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have served some hard time in the makeup chair this year. In a welcome development for openness and transparency, many of the justices have done their share of close-ups this term.

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A federal judge rejected the Bush administration's plan Tuesday to allow increased logging in the Giant Sequoia National Monument, saying the government had "trampled the applicable environmental laws.''

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