Mark Sherman

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FILE - In this Sept. 15, 1987 file photo, Judge Robert Bork, nominated by President Reagan to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court, is sworn before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill at his confirmation hearing. Robert Bork, whose failed Supreme Court nomination made history, has died. (AP Photo/John Duricka)

Bork nomination fight altered judicial selection

Mark Sherman · December 19, 2012 9:23 pm

FILE - In this March 7, 2012 file photo, gun owners and supporters participate in an Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day rally at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. The next big issue in the national debate over guns _ whether people have a right to be armed in public _ is moving closer to Supreme Court review. A provocative ruling by a panel of federal appeals court judges in Chicago struck down the only statewide ban on carrying concealed weapons, in Illinois. The ruling is somewhat at odds with those of other federal courts that have largely upheld state and local gun laws, including restrictions on concealed weapons, since the Supreme Court's landmark ruling declaring that people have a right to have a gun for self-defense. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

High court fight looms over right to carry a gun

Associated Press, Mark Sherman · December 16, 2012 5:00 am

FILE - This April 2, 2012 file photo shows Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor in Washington. Sotomayor says in her upcoming memoir that her lifelong battle against diabetes and the fear that she might die early played a big part in her decision not to have children. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

APNewsBreak: Sotomayor book offers personal look

Mark Sherman · December 11, 2012 7:47 am

FILE - This Sept. 6, 2011 file photo shows opponents of gay marriage outside a courthouse in San Francisco where the California Supreme Court was hearing arguments on California's ban on same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court will take up California's ban on same-sex marriage, a case that could give the justices the chance to rule on whether gay Americans have the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Hope and fear in gay marriage cases at high court

Mark Sherman · December 10, 2012 9:24 am

In this file photo from Aug. 12, 2010, gay couple Tara Walsh, left, and Wen Minkoff embrace outside City Hall in San Francisco. The U.S. Supreme Court decided Friday, Dec. 7, 2012, to hear the appeal of a ruling that struck down Proposition 8, the stateâs measure that banned same sex marriages. The highly anticipated decision by the court means same-sex marriages will not resume in California any time soon. The justices likely will not issue a ruling until spring of next year. A federal appeals court ruled in February that Proposition 8âs ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. But the court delayed implementing the order until same-sex marriage opponents proponents could ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the ruling. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Same-sex marriage cases get Supreme Court review

Mark Sherman · December 8, 2012 8:44 am

Supreme Court will hear same-sex marriage cases

Mark Sherman · December 8, 2012 2:57 am

New EPA rule could upend high court runoff case

Mark Sherman · December 3, 2012 7:47 pm

New EPA rule could upend high court runoff case

Mark Sherman · December 3, 2012 2:09 pm

Court orders new look at health care challenge

Mark Sherman · November 26, 2012 6:04 pm

The U.S. Supreme Court Building Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

High court to take fresh look at voting rights law

Mark Sherman · November 10, 2012 10:25 pm

High court to take new look at voting rights law

Mark Sherman · November 9, 2012 10:30 pm

High court hears case of judge’s mistake

Mark Sherman · November 6, 2012 7:10 pm