The US Supreme Court today upheld the heart of President Barack Obama’s health care reforms, handing him a huge election-year political victory.

THE US Supreme Court appears ready to block a massive sex discrimination lawsuit against Walmart on behalf of up to 1.6 million women, and that could make it harder for other workers nationwide to bring class-action claims against large employers.

A WOMAN convicted of two hired killings is scheduled to die by injection today and become the first woman put to death in Virginia in nearly a century, after the US Supreme Court refused to block her execution yesterday.

A woman convicted of two hired killings is scheduled to die by injection tomorrow and become the first woman put to death in Virginia in nearly a century, after the US Supreme Court refused to block her execution.

The US Supreme Court refused to block the execution of a woman convicted of two killings, clearing the way for the state’s first execution of a woman in nearly a century.

US Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, has moved a step closer to becoming President Barack Obama’s second appointee to the court after winning the approval of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama yesterday picked Elena Kagan, a “trailblazing” legal scholar, to sit on the US Supreme Court, seeking to lock in decades of liberal consensus building on the conservative-dominated bench.

WHEN Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in today to the US Supreme Court, she’ll be able to claim two firsts: first Hispanic justice and first high court member to have her oath-taking made available to TV cameras.

SONIA SOTOMAYOR has been confirmed as the first Hispanic justice of the United States Supreme Court. She is President Obama’s first supreme court nominee.

The US’s highest legal authority will have its first Hispanic voice following the confirmation of judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court today.

PUSHING toward a historic Supreme Court confirmation vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday approved Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice, after nearly unanimous Republican opposition.

US JUDGE Sonia Sotomayor said yesterday neither President Barack Obama nor anyone else in the administration asked her views on abortion rights before she was nominated for the Supreme Court.

US president Barack Obama said today he was shocked and outraged at the murder of a top doctor who performed late-term abortions.

US president Barack Obama chose federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to become America’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice yesterday, praising her as “an inspiring woman” with both the intellect and compassion to interpret the constitution wisely.

US President Barack Obama has picked the first Hispanic in history to sit in the country’s highest legal body, the Supreme Court.