Few presidential powers are as consequential and enduring as the appointment of a judge to the Supreme Court of the United States. While the writers of the Constitution believed merit should be the ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The nation’s first Black Supreme Court Justice was sworn in to the United States Supreme Court on Oct. 2, 1967. Thurgood Marshall was nominated by President Lyndon Johnson in ...
The court’s conservative majority said that Texas’ asserted political motives justified letting the state use voting maps ...
A bedrock legal doctrine called "stare decisis," Latin for "to stand by things decided," calls upon courts to respect their ...
WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court delivered setbacks to environmental interests in a series of recent rulings including by further restricting the Environmental Protection Agency's ...
Kamala Harris will be sworn in Wednesday as the next vice president of the United States by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, according to a Harris aide. Harris will make history as the first ...