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COMMENTARY: We must defend the defenseless.

COMMENTARY: We must defend the defenseless.

THE recent death of Sandra Day OConnor, the first woman named to the United States Supreme Court, turned out reams of mostly positive commentaries on her judicial legacy. Of the commentaries, what stood out was her deep belief that the courts and the legislatures should make decisions based on the emerging social consensus and not on the originalism favored by judicial conservatives and the antebellum biases of conservative lawmakers. Rare is a legal or court victory, she wrote, that is not a by...

How Leonard Leo built the Federalist Society and other organizations a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

A trailblazer for women. A tireless advocate for civility. A daughter of the American West. President Biden and Chief Justice John Roberts eulogized the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in front of hundreds gathered for her funeral service Tuesday at the Washington National Cathedral, remembering the first woman on the Supreme Court, who also became the indisputable swing…

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor returned to Washington to lie in repose in the Great Hall of the U.S. Supreme Court building on Monday, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor lauded O’Connor as “her life role model” and one who was “was devoted to making a better world, and that's what she did.” “For many years,

Think of it as Carson Part Two— in the wake of the case that broke down the wall between church and state, some New England private schools are arguing that the wall has not been broken down enough.

A one-year post as a Supreme Court clerk has long been a ticket to power, influence and wealth. Law firms offer signing bonuses of $450,000 to former clerks, most of whom come from Ivy League and other top-tier law schools.

The recent death of Sandra Day O’Connor recalls the seemingly lost art of consensus-building.

The recent death of Sandra Day O’Connor recalls the seemingly lost art of consensus-building. As the many appreciations appropriately noted, she was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and the last justice to hold elective office. O’Connor was Ronald Reagan’s initial high court pick. Later judicial selections by Reagan and his […]