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Homer Plessy
Biography via Yahoo News· 5 months agoHomer PlessyBiography; Getty Images (silhouette, Supreme Court justices), Wikimedia Commons (railroad), National Archives and Records Administration...
Justice Henry Billings Brown and reasonableness in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 1 year agoYou will get a debate among legal pundits (I hesitate to call them scholars) on which was more...
Opinion | What Alito Should Have Written
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHere’s what I wish Alito had written: In 1890, Louisiana passed a law that required “all railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches [to]...
Overturning Roe v. Wade undermines the legitimacy of the Supreme Court
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe May 2 leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion had foreshadowed the ruling and remained...
The Supreme Court has overturned hundreds of its own decisions. Here are some of the most...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPeople protest in response to the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization ruling in front of the...
The Supreme Court has lost my respect with its rulings this session | Opinion
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSince its establishment in 1789, the United States Supreme Court has dealt with various cases for...
If Roe v. Wade is tossed it would mark the first time the Supreme Court overturned precedent 'to...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPro-choice signs hang on a police barricade at the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, DC, on...
Five times the Supreme Court reversed a precedent
The Hill via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion this week that would overturn the landmark 1973 decision Roe v. Wade has raised fresh questions about when, if...
Why the Court’s Civil Rights Hero Might Have Opposed Affirmative Action
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDuring a period of intense debate over affirmative action in 1987, Thurgood Marshall, the nation’s first Black Supreme Court justice, was called upon to defend one of his judicial heroes, John ...
The Supreme Court has overruled itself on segregation and saluting the flag. Will Roe be next?
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWASHINGTON – When the Supreme Court rules, it's the law of the land – until it isn't. The revelation...