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A series of Supreme Court decisions that went against FDR can be applied to the Trump administration today, writes.
Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley helped reintroduce a bill on Thursday that would create a binding code of ethics ...
(THE CONVERSATION) When the U.S. Supreme Court issues opinions, you may hear that the nine justices reached a 6-3 or a 5-4 decision. You may also hear that certain justices wrote a concurrence or that ...
David Souter, the former U.S. Supreme Court justice who died at 85 last Thursday, was sometimes mistakenly thought to have ...
Justice John Marshall Harlan joined the dissent. “I’ve been on the bench for over four decades. I can’t remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is. This is a ...
Our proposed papal name for Justice Souter was Harlan III, a nod to his affinity for his Court forbear Justice John Marshall Harlan II, who served from 1955 to 1971, and whose grandfather ...
Currently in the spotlight for presiding over the high-profile Diddy case, Indian-American Judge Arun Subramanian has earned a reputation for combining firm judicial authority with measured compassion ...
Justice Harlan nonetheless viewed the Constitution as a charter of “ordered liberty,” the meaning of which could evolve over time to encompass concepts not explicitly mentioned in the text ...
He went on to serve as law clerk to state Supreme Court Justice Harlan Calhoun from 1966 to 1968. Prior to becoming a Supreme Court justice, McHugh was elected circuit court judge for Kanawha ...
Peter S. Canellos, a renowned journalist and author, offers an exploration of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan's legacy in his most recent book “The Great Dissenter: The Story of John ...
The collection also includes papers from Justice John Marshall Harlan I. I have spent some time with Justice Harlan's papers at the Library of Congress. In 2013, I published a paper with Brian ...