A New Yorker article about Supreme Court history makes a big error.

Says lawprof David Bernstein — who's written a great book that covers the era of history in question: [Jill] Lepore writes, “In 1910, ...

Did Justice Breyer actually say anything about the right to burn the Koran?

Here's the colloquy from today's "Good Morning America": STEPHANOPOULOS: You know, when we spoke several years ago, you t...

Isn't it patriotic to pay taxes?

Let me inflict another McCain ad you. This one riffs on Joe Biden's statement that they wealthy ought pay more taxes, because "It...

Do you really think Justices Stevens and Ginsburg are about to create Supreme Court vacancies?

Do you imagine that they stay on the Court only because they don't want George Bush replacing them? Here's the AP: The oldest two ju...

Are dissenting opinions vanity or dishonesty?

Tony Mauro has an interview with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito: Alito ... commented on Roberts' efforts to achieve greater unanimit...

"These formidable people think freedom is so valuable that it is worth dying for."

A Brit's admiration of America: We are inclined, in our snobbish way, to dismiss the Americans as a new and vulgar people, whose civilis...

The euphemisms and abuses of old age.

The Boston Globe has a story headlined "Rehnquist surrendering his golden years to court": Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist lef...