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Each year, the Supreme Court starts its new term on the first Monday of the month of October, an annual event that goes back to…
It was back on this day in 1789 that Congress passed the act that officially created the federal judiciary system that included…
William Howard Taft is a truly unique American figure who led two branches of government, was a wrestling champion and the…
On September 12, 1958, a unanimous Supreme Court declined a Little Rock School District request to delay desegregation mandated by…
On August 30, 1967, the Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as the first Black person to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. Marshall…
On July 3, 1978, the Supreme Court issued its historic verdict in the George Carlin “seven dirty words” case, a decision that…
Setting a precedent with important implications today, the Supreme Court’s decision from 1997 in Printz v. United States…
On June 9, 1969, a near unanimous Senate confirmed federal judge Warren Burger as Chief Justice of the United States, starting a…
It was on this day in 1916 that the Senate voted to confirm attorney Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court, ending an ugly and…
On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court’s Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld the legality of racial segregation in America. Plessy…
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