In this season of peace, remembrance and celebration, we are beckoned by the ghosts of 1776 and 1787 to recall the historic work of this...

It is unclear if the Department of Justice will charge former President Donald Trump with four crimes referred by the January 6...

At this juncture in American history, when the citizenry seems to require frequent reminders of the landmark decisions and actions that...

The enormous pressures and hardships—financial, medical and psychological-- inflicted on the citizenry by the Great Depression required...

Two hundred years ago, in the landmark case of Cohens v. Virginia (1821), the future of our Constitution, the aspirations of national...

The 1807 treason trial of Aaron Burr, lost in the mists of early American legal history stirs, at most, only feint recollections among...

In 1996, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark opinion in United States v. Virginia that exalted women’s rights under the Equal...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s long, tortured road to recognizing women’s constitutional rights in the late 20th Century was preceded by...

Not every landmark Supreme Court decision champions the rights of Americans or limits governmental power in a manner that preserves and...

American legal history firmly rejects the view advanced by some commentators and politicians that the president, not Congress, may decide...

Little v. Barreme, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1804, may be among the least familiar landmark rulings ever rendered, but it...

In a stunning decision on April 12, 1937, with enormous constitutional, economic and societal importance, the U.S. Supreme Court, in...

The Supreme Court, in a landmark ruling in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937), set against the backdrop of President Franklin D....

In 1947, in the context of changing attitudes about race and a historic shift in federal policy on the practice of segregation in...

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), entrenched in American folklore by a best-selling book and a popular film, was one of the most famous...

In a blockbuster, landmark ruling that rolled back the tides of racism and White Supremacy, the Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia...

The Supreme Court’s decision in Korematsu v. United States (1944), upholding the forced evacuation of American citizens of Japanese...

The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Korematsu v. United States (1944), upheld a government program that required the exclusion of...

Chief Justice John Marshall’s landmark opinion for the Supreme Court in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), articulated foundational principles...

The constitutional issues that the Supreme Court addressed –and answered—in the landmark case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), have...