Supreme Court Justices Powell, Blackmun, and Stevens allowed the death penalty to return. Then they disavowed it.

Chief Justice John Roberts first arrived at the Supreme Court in 1980, as a law clerk to then-Associate Justice William Rehnquist, for what would be a formative year in his judicial calling.

The animal rights group is suing the National Institute of Mental Health, saying it has a right to hear and see rhesus ...

Disagreements can be large or small. During Roberts’ year as a law clerk, Justice Harry Blackmun, a stickler on grammar, protested “commute” as a noun in an opinion William Brennan was writing.

“Virginia is free to require whatever professional standards it wishes of its pharmacists,” Justice Harry Blackmun wrote for the court. “But it may not do so by keeping the public in ...

Justices David Souter, John Paul Stevens, and Harry Blackmun were reliable liberals. By contrast, the list of Democratic-appointed justices in the last half-century that have drifted to the right ...

And to prove my point, let me quote from some of the papers of the late Justice Harry Blackmun, who, not to put too fine a point on it, was a pack rat. He saved everything from the formal memos to the ...

The justices buried in the section are all fairly close together. Four of the men Stevens served with have adjoining plots, their headstones in a row: Harry Blackmun, Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart ...