Samuel A. Alito

GPS tracking: The Supreme Court justices seemed concerned by the potential of GPS devices to track people and their movements....

The sole dissenter in yesterday's Supreme Court decision upholding the right of Westboro Baptist Church members to protest near military funerals was Justice Samuel Alito. He insisted that Maryland's laws regulating such demonstrations confirms that...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount attention-getting, anti-gay protests outside military funerals. The court voted 8-1 Wednesday in favor of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church. The...

WASHINGTON -- Addressing a demand for economic answers, President Barack Obama will try to convince the American people and a divided Congress that he has a vision for speeding up job creation, promoting spending on the core of his agenda but promising to...

When it comes to freedom of speech nothing should be sacred and nothing should be profane. That’s just the way it is if, as Americans, we are to support the concept of the First Amendment — the first and most important — absolutely....

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount anti-gay protests outside military funerals, despite the pain they cause grieving families. The court voted 8-1 in favor of...

Today is Monday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2011. There are 341 days left in the year.   Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 24, 1961, a U.S. Air Force B-52 broke up and crashed near Goldsboro, N.C., dropping its payload of two nuclear bombs,...

WASHINGTON — Eager to show some budget toughness, President Barack Obama will use his State of the Union address to call for a five-year freeze on all discretionary government spending outside of national security, the White House said Tuesday....