In a final plea that the Supreme Court hear their appeal, defenders of a 40-foot cross erected as a war memorial in Bladensburg told the justices the monolith represents noble patriotic sacrifice and is not an unconstitutional governmental endorsement of Christianity, as a lower court has ruled.

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Attorneys from Brown, Goldstein & Levy LLP in Baltimore waded into the battle over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's record and succeeded in having unsealed a confidential 1999 report on alleged improper leaks from the Starr Commission.

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Journalist Lyle Denniston, who covered the Supreme Court for more than a half-century, will host the eight-week online course.

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People met in Annapolis last month to protest gun violence; there were 15 shootings in Baltimore that weekend. There are approximately 350 million guns in the United States, with 12 million new guns added to the nation’s private arsenal each ...

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A scandal involving lavish office renovations and other financial abuses by the highest court in one of the poorest states in America has triggered an extraordinary move by one branch of government to essentially fire another.

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'It is a blatant attempt to nationalize the judicial appointments issue,' Sen. Robert A. “Bobby” Zirkin said in response to a tweet Monday from the Democratic nominee's campaign.

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Five of the officers arrested in connection with the death of Freddie Gray will have until October to ask the Supreme Court to consider whether Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby is immune from the civil lawsuits filed against her.

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Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh may have waited too long to challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court a federal appeals court ruling that a 40-foot cross erected more than 90 years ago as a war memorial on state-owned land in Bladensburg violates the constitutional separation of church and state, his re-election foe said Friday.

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Maryland contends the Constitution does not apply because the memorial cross essentially belongs to a private entity, The American Legion, though owned by a governmental agency.

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The president of Maryland’s Senate and seven colleagues are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn a lower court’s 'utterly unrecognizable' decision.

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