Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions ...

It’s Friday, the day of the week when I often share a quote meant to be uplifting or enlightening. Today’s words of wisdom – and they were self-critical – come from Earl Warren, a California lawyer ...

Warren Burger presided over decisions involving abortion, the death penalty, school busing, and executive privilege during Watergate.

When I was 13 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas was violating the Constitution by officially discriminating against people who looked like me. The court said Mexican Americans were due the same ...

Earl Warren served as U.S. chief justice through much of the 1950s and 1960s, a time when the court made landmark civil rights decisions and other... Earl Warren's Legacy ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: From NPR ...

Jan. 20 (UPI) --The USNS Earl Warren will be christened in San Diego on Saturday morning, Navy officials said in a statement. The John Lewis-class replenishment oiler is named after the late chief ...

Justice Elena Kagan breaks a bottle of champagne on the hull of the future USNS Earl Warren. Courtesy General Dynamics NASSCO Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan christened a new fleet oiler named after ...

SAN DIEGO (Tribune News Service) — Earl Warren, the late Supreme Court Chief Justice who presided over society-shaking civil rights changes in the 1950s and 60s, including ending racial segregation in ...

The U.S. Navy christened a ship named for former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren. He presided over cases pertaining to civil rights issues during the turbulent 1950s and ‘60s. A ceremony was ...

“If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them on the same plane” —From the majority opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson, ...

The nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have an august, impersonal presence. But beneath those black robes beat the human hearts of men with very human worries, frustrations—and tempers. Chief ...