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

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

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

Presidents Rarely Defy Courts The most famous and inaccurate historical myths about presidents and the Supreme Court involve President Andrew Jackson and Chief Justice John Marshall.

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

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

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

From the beginning the Supreme Court has always been guided by the famous pronouncement by Chief Justice John Marshall in ...

The first chief justice, John Jay, cared more about diplomatic work and governing New York than about his judicial sideline. I’m not nominating Barrett for some judicial hall of fame.

The first chief justice, John Jay, cared more about diplomatic work and governing New York than about his judicial sideline. I’m not nominating Barrett for some judicial hall of fame.

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’ ...