Justice Hugo Black loved the Supreme Court as much as anyone who has held a seat on the nation’s High Bench. When Black proposed marriage...

On May 17, 1954—70 years ago this week—the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark ruling in Brown v. Bd. of Education, that marked its...

In the aftermath of Justice Abe Fortas’s resignation from the Supreme Court on May 14, 1969, a decision provoked by his own  ethical...

Abe Fortas had always wanted to be a Supreme Court Justice and, for as long as he had known him, his friend and benefactor had wanted to...

The U.S. Supreme Court writes opinions to explain and justify to the American people the decisions it reaches in cases it hears and...

While oral argument provides the citizenry with a fascinating glimpse of the Supreme Court Justices at work, the heavy lifting is...

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...