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

Arlington National Cemetery has long been planned as the final resting place of retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. His second wife Maryan died in 2015 and was buried at the cemetery. The ...

WASHINGTON (CNN)-- Justice John Paul Stevens is approaching his 40th year on the federal bench -- the last 34 on the Supreme Court, deciding thousands of cases. But he said his love of the law was ...

"I am prepared to allow history's judgment of my term in office to rest (if necessary, exclusively) on my nomination 30 years ago of Justice John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Supreme Court," wrote former ...

Hagan Scotten, Lead Prosecutor of Eric Adams, Resigns in Awesome Letter In a recent interview with the Washington Post, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, whose memoir is being ...

So with that in mind, I’d like to praise Justice John Paul Stevens’s opinion in 1978 in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. In that opinion, Justice Stevens concluded that Title ...

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Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens published an op-ed in the New York Times today suggesting that the solution to America's gun problem ...

Justice John Paul Stevens, in a 1985 opinion, noted that the line is uttered by “a rebel, not a friend of liberty,” and that “Shakespeare insightfully realized that disposing of lawyers is a ...

Let us hope,” Justice John Paul Stevens said in a 1992 address at Yale titled “The Freedom of Speech,” that whenever we ...