The senators from both parties, including Democrat Kamala Harris, a likely 2020 presidential candidate, explained their positions on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
A unanimous decision on FOIA rules suggests the justices are in a rather modest mood.
North Korea’s Supreme Court has convicted Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old student at the University of Virginia, of subversion.
Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, and Lewis Powell—all appointed by Republican presidents—started out as supporters of capital punishment. Their decades-long study of capital cases made them see things differently.
The Supreme Court has upheld federal subsidies for health care under the Affordable Care Act, a decision that affects millions of Americans in 34 states.
"The trial of peaceful reformers in a terrorism court underlines the political nature of this court."
On March 9, 1964, a unanimous Supreme Court reversed a libel verdict against The New York Times in a case brought by Alabama officials who complained about a civil rights advertisement in the paper. The First Amendment, thankfully, hasn't been the same since.