Kate Shaw, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Will Baude, a law professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at Georgetown and the ...

Baude: On its own terms, Justice Barrett’s opinion is excellent. Sophisticated, careful, clear and correct. Giving the lower ...

Steve, you’re one of a handful of court watchers who treats what happens on the emergency docket as though it’s equally if ...

President Donald Trump said his administration would proceed with his executive order denying citizenship to children of ...

On June 30, 1934, Adolf Hitler launched his “blood purge” of political and military rivals in Germany in what came to be ...

Harding nominated former President William Howard Taft to be chief justice of the United States ... In 1958, the U.S. Senate passed the Alaska statehood bill. In 1971, the Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, ...

If we wanted to give an example of a court decision that brazenly ignored precedent, contorted the written law, and that ...

These questions are not new. The Supreme Court first took up the issue in 1926 in Myers v. United States, when Chief Justice – and former president – William Howard Taft held that Congress could not ...

Can the president fire leaders of more than 50 independent agencies overseen by Congress because he wants to? The Supreme ...

All the justices on the Supreme Court today, even the dissenters, in a recent non-final opinion backing away from the Humphrey’s case, have overlooked Brandeis’ language and concerns.

In 1926, Chief Justice (and former President) William Howard Taft, writing for a majority of the Supreme Court in Meyers v.