In early December, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in cases asking the justices to overrule two longstanding precedents – Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, a 1935 decision upholding a ...
The First District Court of Appeal recently struck down a Florida law that prohibited people from openly carrying firearms in public. The court ...
This evening, Judge Andrew S. Oldham of the Fifth Circuit gave the Joseph Story Distinguished Lecture at the Heritage Foundation. I was pleased to be in attendance. The topic was provocative and will ...
Even with a six-justice conservative majority, the Roberts Court has not (yet) increased the rate at which it overturns precedents. Given the rash of recent decisions overturning prominent precedents, ...
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has expressed a willingness to reconsider established legal precedents, questioning the ...
WSJ’s Vera Bergengruen explains how the heightened rhetoric and military moves by the Trump administration and Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro could escalate. Photo: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images; ...
After the costly landings, U.S. Marines advanced into Peleliu’s rugged interior, a landscape of jagged coral ridges, hidden bunkers, and fortified caves. The terrain gave Japanese defenders every ...
Editor's Note: This is a part of YourTango's Opinion section where individual authors can provide varying perspectives for wide-ranging political, social, and personal commentary on issues. Has anyone ...
Two weeks after Sanseito’s breakthrough in July's Upper House election, its newly elected lawmakers gathered in parliament in the middle of the Bon holiday for what might seem, at first glance, an ...
Few phrases encapsulate the despair of the Indian litigant more powerfully than Sunny Deol’s anguished outburst in Damini: “Tareekh pe tareekh” (hearing after hearing). It has become a cultural ...