Trump Claims Impeachment Clause Grants Him Immunity
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...
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HumanitiesND
- Dec 22, 2023
- 4 min
A Law Court Will Affirm Colorado’s Ruling on Trump
In his landmark opinion for the U.S. Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison (1803), Chief Justice John Marshall defined the over-arching...
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HumanitiesND
- Dec 14, 2023
- 4 min
Mr. Smith Goes to the Supreme Court to Save the Rule of Law
Jack Smith, the special counsel prosecuting former President Donald Trump for his efforts to illegally overturn the 2020 election, made a...
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HumanitiesND
- Dec 7, 2023
- 4 min
Justice O’Connor, A Personal Reminiscence: “You Mean Sheroes?”
I had the great privilege and pleasure, twice, to interview Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on stage at a conference on women and leadership...
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HumanitiesND
- Dec 6, 2023
- 4 min
James Iredell: Not Hamilton, but Well- Qualified for Supreme Court
Unlike Alexander Hamilton, a more famous Founding Father who wrote extensively about the proposed Constitution and championed its...
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HumanitiesND
- Nov 21, 2023
- 4 min
Justice Douglas Went East, But Appointed to Court as a Westerner
President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to nominate William O. Douglas to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by the...
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HumanitiesND
- Nov 16, 2023
- 3 min
Justice William O. Douglas: Horatio Alger of the Supreme Court
William O. Douglas, the longest serving Supreme Court Justice in American history (1939-1975), whose outsized life on and off the bench...
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HumanitiesND
- Nov 9, 2023
- 4 min
Justice Van Devanter of Wyoming: A “Mainstay” on the Court
The odds were against Willis Van Devanter ever winning an appointment to the Supreme Court. Widespread talk that he suffered from “pen...
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HumanitiesND
- Nov 3, 2023
- 4 min
Hughes Returns and Preserves the Court Amidst a Great Storm
When President Herbert Hoover in 1930 nominated Charles Evans Hughes to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, an unprecedented second...
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HumanitiesND
- Oct 26, 2023
- 4 min
Charles Evans Hughes: Appointed Twice to the Supreme Court
Charles Evans Hughes, one of the great names in America’s judicial history, remains the only person twice appointed to the U.S. Supreme...
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HumanitiesND
- Oct 18, 2023
- 4 min
Taft: The Court Should Preserve Framers’ Governmental Structure
The U.S. Supreme Court is a law court, of course, but it is primarily a political institution that guides the destiny of the nation. Its...
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HumanitiesND
- Oct 16, 2023
- 4 min
Chief Justice Taft: Presidency Okay, Supreme Court Heavenly
William Howard Taft, the only man to serve as President of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, once observed that...
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HumanitiesND
- Oct 16, 2023
- 4 min
Brandeis: Free Speech Critical to Preservation of Democracy
In response to previous columns about the appointment, importance and influence of Justice Louis Brandeis, an enthusiastic reader has...
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HumanitiesND
- Oct 16, 2023
- 4 min
Brandeis: A Great Justice and the Right to be let Alone
Louis Brandeis, known by the nation at the time of his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court as “The People’s Lawyer,” and years later...
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HumanitiesND
- Oct 16, 2023
- 4 min
Justice Louis D. Brandeis: “The People’s Attorney”
By the time President Woodrow Wilson nominated him for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1916, Louis Brandeis, the nation’s first...
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HumanitiesND
- Aug 18, 2023
- 4 min
Chief Justice Marshall: Unpretentious, Modest and Humble
Those Americans in the early years of the republic who idolized the elegant, regal and graceful bearing of English judges, could be...
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HumanitiesND
- Aug 18, 2023
- 4 min
John Marshall: The Great Chief Justice Transforms the Court
Two centuries after his service to the United States as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, virtually no one doubts John Marshall’s...
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HumanitiesND
- Aug 18, 2023
- 4 min
Justice James Wilson: Leading Constitutional Architect
It was altogether fitting that James Wilson, second in importance only to James Madison as an architect of the Constitution, would be...
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HumanitiesND
- Aug 18, 2023
- 4 min
John Jay: First Chief Justice, Diplomat, Founding Era Giant
When the newly elected President George Washington turned his attention to the historic opportunity of nominating citizens to fill seats...
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HumanitiesND
- Aug 18, 2023
- 4 min
Judicial Profiles to Better Understand the Supreme Court
We citizens know a lot about our presidents—their background, philosophy and character—and sometimes more than we care to know. The same...
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