Wisconsin justices ruled 4-3 to overturn a near abortion ban, a reflection of the court's liberal majority and an election ...

Strategic Retirements Hurt the Supreme Court. Term Limits Would End Them. Justices timing their exits to happen under a particular president undermines trust in judicial impartiality.

Rights advocates celebrated Wednesday after the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority struck down the state’s abortion ...

Working for the First Circuit for less than a year, Souter was appointed by the 41st President to fill Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr.'s seat on the Supreme Court of the United States ...

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 ...

Appointed in 1990 to replace Justice William Brennan, Souter was a little-known judge on the U.S. appellate court in Boston when he was selected by then-President George H.W. Bush for the nation's ...

Justice Brennan's view was that, if there was a finding that the removals were based on viewpoint, ... So, as a Fifth Circuit en banc held in 1982, "the Supreme Court ...

Justice David Souter, who spent nearly 20 years on the Supreme Court, has died. Souter was a critical figure in several key battles in the court over issues like abortion and the 2000 presidential ...

He was known as an independent voice on the Supreme Court. Souter was little-known nationally in 1990 when President George H.W. Bush nominated him to succeed retiring Justice William Brennan, who ...