U.S. Supreme Court

The left's reaction to President Trump's second SCOTUS pick is pretty much as expected.

Wearing political attire to vote is legal, says the U.S. Supreme Court.

The first same-sex marriage occurred in Massachusetts 14 years ago today, and we are a better society for it.

A law banning the possession of tasers and stun guns in Massachusetts has been thrown out.

If you thought that the panhandling epidemic that is sweeping the nation erupted almost overnight, you are right.  But, it was unintended. In 2015 the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in the case of Reed v. The Town Of Gilbert, Arizona...

President Barack Obama is nominating federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, to fill the seat that was held by the late Antonin Scalia.

Congressman Bill Keating welcomed the latest ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld a section of the Affordable Care Act that provided taxpayer subsidies for low-income residents in nearly three dozen states that have not set up health insurance exchanges.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and state Attorney General Maura Healey are among those urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down remaining state bans against gay marriage. Baker was the only sitting governor among a group of more than 300 prominent Republicans who submitted a brief Friday...

Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a bill designed to tighten security around abortion clinics in Massachusetts. Wednesday's signing comes a little more than one month after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 2007 state law that established a protest-free 35-foot ``buffer zone'' around the entrances to abortion clinics...

The U.S. Supreme Court is striking a blow for privacy rights. The high court ruled 9-0 today that police must obtain warrants before searching suspects' cellphones. Civil libertarians successfully argued that the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution covered cellphones in insuring the right of individuals to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers or effects...