At a time of attacks on the judicial system, a coalition of former state chief justices around the country has organized to ...

On Dec. 10, 1778, John Jay was elected president of the Continental Congress. He later became the Supreme Court’s first chief ...

Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court’s conservative majority on a steady march of increasing the power of the ...

In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. On ...

The restoration of a constitutional presidency requires repudiation of the ill-conceived unitary executive theory.

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether ...

Among the 116 justices to have served on the U.S. Supreme Court in its more than 230-year history, only a handful have gained the mythic status that we commonly refer to as a "giant of the law." There ...

One of the president’s appeals-court nominees, a former lawyer for the president, was in the crowd at a raucous event in Mt.

I recently learned a new designation for this approach — purposivism — an interpretive methodology that looks to why ...

Supreme Court nominations are great political theater, great, that is, if you enjoy the spectator sport our uncivil civic ...