Oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court is the most important, fascinating and visible part of the Justices’ public work on the High...

Historically, U.S. Supreme Court Justices have avoided drama. A bookish group, given to tranquility and docility, the Justices mark their...

John Rutledge of South Carolina, a founding era titan who held virtually every important political office and judicial post from the...

President George Washington’s nomination in 1796 of Oliver Ellsworth to serve as the third Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was...

The remarkable influence of the Four Horsemen, as demonstrated by their success in thwarting on constitutional grounds President Franklin...

The adage that the Supreme Court follows the election returns certainly did not apply to the Four Horsemen –Willis Van Devanter, George...

The Four Horsemen of Supreme Court—not Biblical—lore represented one of the most important blocs of Justices in the history of our...

The intriguing President’s Day news that President Abraham Lincoln granted a pardon 160 years ago to President Joe Biden’s...

The photos and images of U.S. Supreme Court Justices portraying earnest men and women wrestling with momentous legal issues and...

When the U.S. Supreme Court, in Richmond Newspapers v. Virginia (1980), in the words of Justice John Paul Stevens, “squarely held that...

The First Amendment’s Free Press Clause, which Thomas Jefferson declared indispensable to republicanism, has long been regarded as the...

Justice Robert H. Jackson’s departure for Europe in September of 1945 to serve as chief prosecutor for the United States at the historic...

Every now and again, the public displays an intense interest in the question of whether Supreme Court Justices ought to recuse themselves...

Few nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court have been as well prepared, let us say, groomed, for a seat on the nation’s High Tribunal than...

Critics of the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that former President Donald Trump, under the express terms of Section 3 of the...

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has filed briefs with the D.C. Court of Appeals, which will hear oral argument in the federal...

In his landmark opinion for the U.S. Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison (1803), Chief Justice John Marshall defined the over-arching...

Jack Smith, the special counsel prosecuting former President Donald Trump for his efforts to illegally overturn the 2020 election, made a...

I had the great privilege and pleasure, twice, to interview Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on stage at a conference on women and leadership...

Unlike Alexander Hamilton, a more famous Founding Father who wrote extensively about the proposed Constitution and championed its...