Scalia explains that if Judges are going to make the law instead of interpreting the law, then they have to be vetted for what kind of policies they are going to pass in their opinions. Scalia of course disagrees vigorously with judges who substitute their own will for the law. Nevertheless...
Read More:How to Address a Letter to a Supreme Court Judge Use the Appropriate Form of Address If you are writing a letter to the court, you should address the judge properly, depending on the type of court and level of judge. Look online for a list of the forms of address for judges...
Supreme Court:... in terms of intellectual ability, [Fred M. Vinson] paled in comparison to his contemporarieson the bench -- Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Robert H. Jackson orWiley Rutledge. He is remembered primarily as a crony of Harry Truman, and he along with...
Should Supreme Court Justices continue to serve for life? He is a powerful man made even more powerful by his status as spouse of a Supreme Court justice. The company you keep On Friday, Ginsburg, a career-long pioneer for same-sex marriage, immigrant, and reproductive rights, met in a ...
brought by both special counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis -- could be reshaped to conform to Monday's decision. Trump's Florida criminal case -- related to the alleged retention of classified documents -- could face further delays to addres...
Supreme Court oral arguments are exercises in multitasking: The justices are talking to advocates as they’re talking to each other. Chief Justice John Roberts has described the lawyers as “backboards” — justices’ questions rebound off the lawyers and back to the other justices. Through their...
JUVENILE JUSTICE, SULLIVAN, AND GRAHAM: HOW THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION WILL CHANGE THE NEUROSCIENCE DEBATE Duke Law & Technology ReviewJennings, Johanna Cooper
These safeguards, though important, do not alleviate the need for pretrial review. They fail to address the fact that under our system of separated powers, criminal prohibitions cannot apply to certain Presidential conduct to begin with. As we have explained, when the President acts pursuant to...
John Jay, the First Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, wrote inChisholm v. Georgia, 1793: "The PEOPLE are the SOVEREIGN of this country." Signer of Constitution James Wilson stated at the Pennsylvania Convention to ratify ...
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in his new book that law in America has swallowed up ordinary people.