Founding Father, U.S. Chief Justice from 1789 to 1795
Jonathan Turley explains at FoxNews.com what comedian and former U.S. Sen. Al Franken gets wrong about the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts should get up, look into the…
Noemie Emery of the Washington Examiner reminds us about an importance piece of U.S. Supreme Court history. Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., seems to have been in a strange…
Rich Lowry of National Review Online muses about the way America would have evolved if another great European power had colonized it. Our cultural nation was extremely important at the…
Walter Williams writes at Human Events that Americans would do well to commemorate a special birthday each March 16. We celebrate Washington’s Birthday each February. But March 16th marks the…
Conservative or liberal, activist or defential, right or wrong — a recent study finds one interesting trend among recent U.S. Supreme Court opinions. Paul Barrett summarizes the results for the…
Two hundred years after he occupied the White House, James Madison is attracting quite a bit of attention from biographers who write for more than just an academic audience. Having…
More than 210 years after its ratification, the U.S. Constitution appears relatively sturdy, current shenanigans in Washington notwithstanding. That?s why it?s interesting to read accounts of just how close individual…
Will and Quindlen usually split appearances on Newsweek?s last page, but both columnists had a chance to offer a ?Last Word? in the magazine?s 124-page ode to President-elect Barack Obama.…
If you?ve ever wondered how a bunch of illiberal collectivists were able to shanghai the title ?liberal,? you?ll likely appreciate the following passage from Michael Meyerson?s enjoyable new book, Liberty?s…
Don Luskin provides a list of former Supreme Court justices with no previous experience as a judge. Among them: John Jay, John Rutledge, Louis Brandeis, John Marshall, Salmon Chase, Whizzer…
In today’s Wall Street Journal David Wessel entertains the idea that Bill Clinton was wrong: The era of big government is not over. The online article is subscription-only and found…