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...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to nominate William O. Douglas to the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by the...

William O. Douglas, the longest serving Supreme Court Justice in American history (1939-1975), whose outsized life on and off the bench...

The odds were against Willis Van Devanter ever winning an appointment to the Supreme Court. Widespread talk that he suffered from “pen...

When President Herbert Hoover in 1930 nominated Charles Evans Hughes to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, an unprecedented second...

Charles Evans Hughes, one of the great names in America’s judicial history, remains the only person twice appointed to the U.S. Supreme...

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...

William Howard Taft, the only man to serve as President of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, once observed that...

In response to previous columns about the appointment, importance and influence of Justice Louis Brandeis, an enthusiastic reader has...

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...

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...

Those Americans in the early years of the republic who idolized the elegant, regal and graceful bearing of English judges, could be...

Two centuries after his service to the United States as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, virtually no one doubts John Marshall’s...

It was altogether fitting that James Wilson, second in importance only to James Madison as an architect of the Constitution, would be...

When the newly elected President George Washington turned his attention to the historic opportunity of nominating citizens to fill seats...

We citizens know a lot about our presidents—their background, philosophy and character—and sometimes more than we care to know. The same...

“What are the implications of the trial of Donald Trump for the Constitution, presidential power and the rule of law?” a reader asks,...

A reader recently wrote to ask a question on the minds of many Americans: “If the courts check the other branches of government, who...

The continued revival of interest among state legislatures in posting the Ten Commandments in public schools may present to the U.S....