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Presidential history: Presidents’ supreme court appointments
Few presidential powers are as consequential and enduring as the appointment of a judge to the Supreme Court of the United ...
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Opinion: Deference to presidency is rewriting Constitution
The Supreme Court’s pattern of deference to the executive has rocked our constitutional foundations and invited presidential ...
Governors, Use Your Clemency Powers
President Trump is abusing his clemency power, but most American governors are underutilizing their powers of commutation and ...
On This Day, July 8: Ex-Japanese PM Shinzo Abe assassinated
Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister who retired from office in 2020 after a bout of health problems, was shot ...
Why does the US have birthright citizenship? Should it?
Birthright citizenship is relatively uncommon. There are 195 countries in the world, and only 30 of them have it — that’s ...
What was the Judiciary Act of 1789? Check Key Facts and its Significance
Learn about the Judiciary Act of 1789, its definition, significance, and how it shaped the U.S. federal system.
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The dissent that broke a justice
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 […] ...
Judges to weigh request to put Alabama under preclearance for a future congressional map
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Federal judges will weigh a request to bring Alabama back under the preclearance requirement of the ...
The ugly gossip in Washington about Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson... as she's rebuked by Supreme Court peers on both the right AND left: MARK HALPERIN
Her scorched-ink strategy may be cathartic, but her allies fear she is undermining the very institution she claims to want to ...