U.S. Supreme Court

HELENA, Mont. -- Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court justices strongly suggested Wednesday that they are ready to allow Arizona to enforce part of a controversial state law requiring police officers to check the immigration status of people they think are in the country illegally.

Liberal and conservative justices reacted skeptically to the Obama administration's argument that the state exceeded its authority when it made the records check, and another provision allowing suspected illegal immigrants to be arrested without a warrant, part of the Arizona law aimed at driving illegal immigrants elsewhere.

LAYTON — The Rev. Myke Crowder, of the Layton Christian Academy, is front and center when it comes to opposing President Barack Obama’s health care mandate.

Representing the National Clergy Council along with other members, Crowder is attending a three-day U.S. Supreme Court proceeding in Washington, D.C., where justices are hearing arguments on whether Obama’s health care mandate is constitutional.

WASHINGTON -- Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff is appearing at the U.S. Supreme Court as justices hear a three-day debate on the Obama administration’s overhaul of the nation’s health care system.

WASHINGTON -- Nearly five months after their first encounter, Tennessee Republican Rep. Phil Roe -- a doctor -- met impromptu patient Terry Wade again Wednesday morning.

WASHINGTON -- In a rare defeat for law enforcement, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed on Monday to bar police from installing GPS technology to track suspects without first getting a judge's approval. The justices made clear it wouldn't be their final word on increasingly advanced high-tech surveillance of Americans.

Indicating they will be monitoring the growing use of such technology, five justices said they could see constitutional and privacy problems with police using many kinds of electronic surveillance for long-term tracking of citizens' movements without warrants.

While the justices differed on legal rationales, their unanimous outcome was an unusual setback for government and police agencies grown accustomed to being given leeway in investigations in post-Sept. 11 America, including by the Supreme Court. The views of at least the five justices raised the possibility of new hurdles down the road for police who want to use high-tech surveillance of suspects, including various types of GPS technology.

WASHINGTON — The weight of a Supreme Court decision isn’t likely to settle the contentious debate over health care in America, a nation disdainful of big government and historically unable to guarantee affordable basic coverage to all its citizens.