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On Dec. 19, 2023, the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will lie in repose at the Supreme Court upon the Lincoln catafalque. The…
On December 12, 2000, the Supreme Court ended a Florida vote recount in the presidential election contest between George W. Bush…
The Supreme Court announced this morning that retired Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who left the bench in 2006, has…
On October 23, 1987, the United States Senate held one of the most-controversial votes on a Supreme Court nominee in its history,…
It was back on this day in 1789 that Congress passed the act that officially created the federal judiciary system that included…
President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon on this day in 1974 generated a national controversy, but in recent years, some…
It was on this day in 1807 that former Vice President Aaron Burr was acquitted of treason charges. The trial was truly a “Trial…
On August 30, 1967, the Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as the first Black person to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. Marshall…
A political deal to secure the vote of a Democratic senator in the recent debt ceiling battle has teed up a U.S. Supreme Court…
The legendary confrontation between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Monkey Trial took place on a hot…
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