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

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 ...

How can you tell if the newest Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is an "activist" judge? She admits it. Worse, she appears to think it is her job, if not her duty, to engage in ...

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

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

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 […] ...

← 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 ...

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

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

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