Clarence Thomas was sworn in as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in November of 1991, following perhaps the greatest furor over such an appointment in modern history. A conservative jurist with experience in the education department under President...

President George Bush named Clarence Thomas (born 1948) to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991. Senate confirmation was gained only after intense public controversy over charges of "sexual harassment" brought by Anita Hill, Thomas's former employee. Since...

Some Supreme Court cases, since Samuel Alito joined the court last year, showing a clear division between conservative and liberal justices._Free speech: Scales back protections for government workers who blow the whistle on official misconduct, Garcetti v. Ceballos. Majority: Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Samuel...

In a Feb. 20 story about the Supreme Court throwing out a damages award against Weyerhauser Co., The Associated Press reported erroneously the amount a jury said Weyerhauser should pay. The jury award was $26.25 million, not $29 million. The corrected version of this story...

The Supreme Court threw out death sentences for three Texas killers Wednesday because of problems with instructions given jurors who were deciding between life in prison and death.In the case of LaRoyce Lathair Smith, the court set aside the death penalty for the second time....

Two outsized personalities clashed at the Supreme Court on Wednesday and one of them, Justice Antonin Scalia, was briefly silenced by a barbed comment that left other justices laughing.Longtime Harvard law professor Arthur Miller, rarely at a loss for words himself, was arguing on behalf...