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…
A divided Supreme Court on Friday has struck down an expansive debt-relief program for student loans created during the Covid-19…
On June 28, 2010, a deeply divided Supreme Court upholds gun-ownership rights within homes on a national basis, expanding on a…
On June 28, 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, laying the groundwork for…
On May 28, 1861, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney directly challenged President Abraham Lincoln’s wartime suspension of…
A group of commercial fishing companies soon will have the opportunity to persuade the Supreme Court of the United States to do…
On March 26, 1962, the Supreme Court decided Baker v. Carr, finding that it had the power to review the redistricting of state…
Thomas McKean was a President before George Washington and supported judicial review before John Marshall. But today, McKean is…
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