In December 1944, the Supreme Court handed down one of its most controversial decisions, which upheld the constitutionality of…
On September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks carried out against the United States would become the catalyst for at least two wars,…
On this day, Justice Frank Murphy was sworn in by the clerk of the Court, Charles Elmore Cropley. When the ceremony finished on…
On August 12, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated then-Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the Supreme Court.
On May 14, 1973, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Frontiero v. Richardson, a case that furthered the cause of gender…
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