A Justice Department lawyer advised the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that it had no legal authority to block transmission of a speech by Leon Trotsky.
Justice Antonin Scalia continued his attacks on judicial activism during a speech in Colorado on Saturday, referencing radical Islam and 1930s Germany to illustrate the dangers.
Nearly 50 years after a woman was killed in a homicide attributed to the so-called Boston Strangler, authorities say a “familial” DNA match has linked a suspect who confessed the…
Above all, October Term 2012 powerfully shows that U.S. Supreme Court decisions affect each of us, often in the most important and intimate aspects of our lives. On Wednesday, June…
In the 19th century, women battled for equal rights and began to try to enter many professions, including the law. What drove the first women lawyers? "The critical issue is whether or not they have the personality that makes them ambitious in this tremendously radical and threatening way," says Jill Norgren, author of the new book "Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America’s First Women Lawyers."
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