Imagine a legal system where anyone can come to court and challenge anything for any reason. If it sounds fantastical, that’s because it is. Take it a step further, though. Imagine that the court’s ...

Documents from John Roberts’s service in the Reagan administration show him to be a committed proponent of judicial restraint. Roberts’s initial November 1981 draft of the attorney general’s January ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts recently weighed in on the controversy surrounding federal judges constraining Trump administration actions, claiming the role of judges has been “settled” for ...

WASHINGTON - At the dawn of the Reagan revolution, when conservatives were just beginning to flex their muscles on a wide range of issues, John Roberts was a confident young lawyer with well-developed ...

The Sumner Canary Memorial lecture was established to honor the memory of the late Judge Sumner Canary, a pillar of the Cleveland legal community. Judge Canary served on the Ohio Court of Appeals for ...

It’s a rather convenient argument and certainly comes in reaction to conservative and libertarian groups’ now-successful attempts to use the courts to their advantage as the left has done for decades.

At Harvard, he wrote his senior thesis on the judicial philosophy of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Justice Souter admired the justice’s commitment to restraint and his view that rulings should be ...

"I don't know that we really should care about policy," said Presiding Judge Stephen Dillard. "It's only what the statute says, and you may be right on that, you may not be right on that, but that's ...

Former Supreme Court justice David Souter, the intellectual New Englander who disappointed Republicans and delighted liberals by slowing a conservative transformation of the high court, died May 8 at ...