President-elect Barack Obama will be the first president to have participated in Senate filibusters of judicial nominees - a distinction that conservatives say will haunt him in showdowns over anticipated nominations of liberal, activist judges to the federal bench.

Steeling themselves for battle over nominations, Senate Republicans say the president-elect's voting record and long simmering resentments over Democrats' treatment of President Bush's nominees will leave Mr. Obama hard-pressed to call for bipartisan help confirming judges or even an up-or-down vote on his picks.

Connecticut's Supreme Court ruled Friday that gay couples have the right to marry, making the state the third behind Massachusetts and California to legalize such unions through the courts.

The ruling comes just weeks before Californians go to the polls on a historic gay-marriage ballot question, the first time the issue will be put before voters...

A federal judge in San Diego says a giant cross that looks over the city from Mount Soledad may stay where it is.
The cross, part of a national veterans’ memorial, has been at the center of a legal battle for 20 years. The cross itself is 29 feet tall, but including the base, it towers 43 above the ground.

Pro-family advocates say Christians should get used to legal harassment such as
the lawsuit a homosexual activist recently filed against two Bible
publishers. Bradley LaShawn Fowler of Canton, Michigan, does not like the fact that the
Bibles produced by Zondervan and Thomas Nelson Publishers both accurately convey
God's prohibition against homosexual behavior. So he is suing in federal court,
seeking $10 million from Thomas Nelson and $60 million from Zondervan.

Pro-family advocates say Christians should get used to legal harassment such as the lawsuit a homosexual activist recently filed against two Bible publishers. Bradley LaShawn Fowler of Canton, Michigan, does not like the fact that the Bibles produced by Zondervan and Thomas Nelson Publishers both accurately convey God's prohibition against homosexual behavior. So he is suing in federal court, seeking $10 million from Thomas Nelson and $60 million from Zondervan.

Oregon voters are hoping the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will uphold their efforts to protect natural marriage.

When pro-family activists began collecting petition signatures for a ballot initiative to repeal Oregon's domestic partnership law, they had no idea how their opponents would keep the issue from appearing on the 2008 general election ballot. Craig Myers with the group Concerned Oregonians says several county clerks simply invalidated perfectly legal signatures. "And in the case of Marion County and Jackson County, we brought eight people in. If five of those had been validated, then we would have been on the ballot for 2008," Myers explains.

Does the District of Columbia's ban on handgun ownership violate the Constitutional right to "keep and bear arms"? The U.S. Supreme Court will issue its ruling tomorrow.

A federal judge denied a Planned Parenthood request on Thursday to allow it to open its new massively sized abortion center despite a city investigation into problems with its paperwork. The abortion business wanted a preliminary injunction allowing it to open before the city completes its probe.

HARTFORD -- The opposing camps in the gay marriage debate are waiting for the Connecticut Supreme Court to make a historic ruling on marriage rights.

Four months have passed since the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether same-sex couples have the legal right to marry here.

The court's decision could redefine marriage in Connecticut. Until the ruling, opposing sides on the marriage question can only wait and speculate.