On September 24, 1789, George Washington nominated John Jay to the office of Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, setting a ...

Justice Antonin Scalia’s sudden death 10 years ago this month reordered the Supreme Court, presidential politics and, as seen at the court today, invigorated the status of the man himself.

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Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether the issue concerns abortion, the scope of federal agencies, the death penalty ...

It is easy to take for granted that the current Supreme Court has a majority of committed originalists. But only four decades ago, such a court would have been unimaginable. Who deserves credit for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An obscure ideology most people have never heard of is dominating almost every aspect of American life. Nearly every important ...

Justice Antonin Scalia, A Strong Advocate for the Ideology of Judicial Originalism – Courtesy of TIME USA The U.S. is at a time of political turmoil. Among many factors that have led to this ...

The late, long-serving Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was known as a deeply intelligent and deeply conservative jurist, unwavering in his promotion of the doctrine of “originalism” in ...

WASHINGTON - Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court's most outspoken and combative conservative, is not often described as friendly to criminals. But in recent years, Scalia has led an unusual ...