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Last month, Washington was in a tizzy about whether President Trump could use the adjournment power as a means to… The post Jurisprudence on the Adjournment Power, Old and New appeared first on Reason.com.

“In these easy going days [Harlan] should find himself possessed of the courage to resist the temptation to go with the multitude”

WASHINGTON — Following last term's overturning of Roe v. Wade and an expansion of gun rights, the Supreme Court's conservatives are moving now to sharply limit or strike down affirmative action at colleges and universities.

Recently, the Wall Street Journal, never shy about twisting language to maintain a status quo that serves its core audience at the expense of less wealthy or powerful Americans, ran an editorial taking new Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to task. Her offense? Jackson had the temerity to object…

Politics is nothing new in the supposedly august Supreme Court — and it's often been the worst possible kind

When Earl Warren became chief justice of the Supreme Court in 1953, only one of the nine justices had served as a judge before joining the court. After the landmark court ruling the next year that ended segregation, court detractors masked their resentment of Brown v. Board of Education with…

Judge Lawrence VanDyke included a satirical opinion that his colleagues can use when they decide otherwise.