Few presidential powers are as consequential and enduring as the appointment of a judge to the Supreme Court of the United ...

Former Chief Justice John Marshall’s quote, “It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what ...

The Supreme Court’s pattern of deference to the executive has rocked our constitutional foundations and invited presidential ...

The Court’s opinion has disturbing things to say about privacy, but the biggest losers are likely to be judges themselves.

← Return to all search results for "Read the quotation from Justice John Marshall Harlan in his Plessy v. Ferguson dissent in 1896.“Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates ...

In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. It was a case that sent one justice into a mental […] ...

The invention of democracy and the role of judges can be traced back to ancient Greece. It is the subject of Aeschylus’ ...

The late former Supreme Court Justice David Souter was unusual in many ways, and we won’t see his like again. But we ...

Birthright citizenship is relatively uncommon. There are 195 countries in the world, and only 30 of them have it — that’s ...

With decisions from executive power to deportation authority, the conservative supermajority of the Supreme Court sided with President Trump most of the time.

Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister who retired from office in 2020 after a bout of health problems, was shot ...

President Trump is abusing his clemency power, but most American governors are underutilizing their powers of commutation and ...