Life tenure was meant to insulate justices from politics, but the clash building between President Obama and the GOP-controlled Senate after Antonin Scalia's death shows how that hasn't panned out.
Diversity is expected to be a factor in finding a Supreme Court nominee. David Greene talks to Michael Eric Dyson, author of The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America.
As the fight over naming Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's replacement begins, Sen. Orrin Hatch talks to David Greene about what it would take for a nominee to be confirmed by the Senate.
Putting the five men accused of plotting the attacks on trial is a long process. On Tuesday, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, another round of seemingly endless pre-trial war court hearings gets underway.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death uprooted the presidential election and jogged memories that Barack Obama is a lame-duck president. Republicans are vowing to block any Obama nominee.
Alabama bars felons convicted of crimes of "moral turpitude" from regaining voting rights. But defining such crimes is subjective. An estimated 15 percent of black adults in Alabama can't vote.
Justice Antonin Scalia's death comes just weeks before the Supreme Court hears its biggest abortion case in a decade. The reach of that decision will likely be impacted by his absence.