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 ...

"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 ...

Trump doesn’t like lawyers, at least ones he isn’t retaining to defend him in court. In Trump’s first term, government lawyers repeatedly advised him that he could not do the things he sought to do.

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 ...

has written a great column refuting all of the claims about the Second Amendment and school violence made by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in his misinformed op-ed in the New ...

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

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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 ...