In the latest filing in the Defense of Marriage Act case at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, lawyers for House Republicans took a couple of swipes at the Obama administration for its procedural posture.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved three judicial nominees Thursday, among hints that a dispute about President Barack Obama’s controversial recess appointees could stall their confirmations by the full Senate.

The Obama administration’s top lawyer faced aggressive and often skeptical questioning Tuesday by U.S.

The Obama administration’s top lawyer faced aggressive and often skeptical questioning Tuesday by U.S. Supreme Court justices in a sweeping and historic argument over the constitutionality of the nation’s new health care law. At the end of fast-paced arguments in a courtroom packed with press, politicians and the public, the fate of the controversial so-called individual mandate to buy health insurance seemed to rest with two justices: Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.

Conservative justices put the Obama administration’s top lawyer on the defensive on Tuesday, possibly forecasting a closer-than-expected Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act dividing along ideological lines.