Supporters of a measure to create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery in Maryland have rallied next to ...

Plus: House Republicans propose charging $1,000 to claim asylum, and 3 new federal executive orders target immigration ...

The late justice was picked to be a reliable conservative vote on the court. But he drifted left—and the right has never ...

New Hampshire-born attorney was named to the high court by President George HW Bush and became a target of conservatives ...

Souter was never supposed to be a hard-right ideologue. That distinction would go to Bush’s next appointment, Clarence Thomas ...

W. Bush nominated Thomas for the court. Bush claimed that Thomas was the “best qualified” candidate for the seat vacated by Thurgood Marshall. But the real reason Bush selected him was that ...

retiring Justice Thurgood Marshall, Souter made a marked shift towards the center by voting with the court’s liberals against permitting prayer at a public high school graduation ceremony.

David Souter, a New Hampshire Republican who was named to the Supreme Court by President George H.W. Bush and who over 19 years on that bench became a mainstay of the court's shrinking liberal wing, ...

Wade arrived at the court’s doorstep midway through the next term, sooner than many people had expected. By then, another abortion rights supporter, Justice Thurgood Marshall, had retired ...