It was on this day in 1974 that the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a fatal blow to President Richard Nixon’s presidency, in a decision…
On August 30, 1967, the Senate confirmed Thurgood Marshall as the first Black person to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. Marshall…
Most people aren’t big fans of a national income tax, but it was on this day back in 1861 that the first one was levied by the…
On June 30, 1921, President Warren Harding announced that former President William Howard Taft would become the new Chief Justice…
On June 28, 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, laying the groundwork for…
Setting a precedent with important implications today, the Supreme Court’s decision from 1997 in Printz v. United States…
On June 17, 1972, police caught five men breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in…
It was on this day that Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court.
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