Supreme Court strikes down part of Voting Rights Act  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — the map that determines which states must get federal permission before they change their voting laws.  —  The ruling, a 5-4 decision …

Justice Samuel Alito's middle-school antics  —  The most remarkable thing about the Supreme Court's opinions announced Monday was not what the justices wrote or said.  It was what Samuel Alito did.  —  The associate justice, a George W. Bush appointee, read two opinions …

A Civil-Rights Victory  —  The Supreme Court's decision today to overturn a small part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act is actually a victory for civil rights.  As the court noted, what made sense both in moral and practical terms almost a half century ago has to be approached anew.

Justices limit Voting Rights Act  —  What do you think?  Sound off in a video on CNN iReport.  —  Washington (CNN) — A federal civil rights law that has stood for generations will be tougher to enforce after Tuesday's ruling by the Supreme Court.  —  In a 5-4 vote, justices limited …

Voting Rights Act Section 4 Struck Down By Supreme Court  —  The Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, the provision of the landmark civil rights law that designates which parts of the country must have changes to their voting laws cleared by the federal government or in federal court.

Samuel Alito Rolls Eyes While Ruth Bader Ginsburg Reads Dissent  —  Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito broke from the high court's usual decorum on Monday morning, rolling his eyes and shaking his head as his senior colleague, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, read her dissents in two cases.

Demonizing Edward Snowden: Which Side Are You On?  —  As I write this, a bunch of reporters are flying from Moscow to Havana on an Aeroflot Airbus 330, but Edward Snowden isn't sitting among them.  His whereabouts are unknown.  He might still be in the V.I.P. lounge at Sheremetyevo International Airport.

Obama: Keystone XL Should Not Be Approved If It Will Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions  —  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will ask the State Department not to approve the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline unless it can first determine that it will not lead …

Is Obama waging a ‘war on coal’?  —  Daniel P. Schrag, who directs Harvard University's Center for the Environment as serves as one of the administration's scientific adviser, set off a firestorm Tuesday when The New York Times quoted him saying “a war on coal is exactly what's needed” to address global warming.

THE QUOTE THAT SHOULD END THE TRAYVON TRIAL  —  George Zimmerman is going to be found guilty.  All the evidence you need — all the evidence the cops needed — is right there in the interrogation they did with him three days after the shooting.  The only thing more shocking than what Zimmerman …