Supreme Court

Guides And Explainers

Kim Davis is a county clerk from Kentucky whose refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015 brought a local conscience dispute to the U.S. Supreme Court. This...

legal-judicial

This evergreen explainer clarifies which U.S. Supreme Court justices died while serving, when they died, how the Court continued, and why this matters for understanding tenure a...

law

Supreme Court scaffolding refers to the doctrinal structure, procedural rules, and interpretive frameworks the Court erects to support and organize constitutional meaning over t...

Celebrity Profiles

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1993 to 2020, shaping modern constitutional interpretation through meticulously reasoned...

Government and Policy

Antonin Scalia died on February 13, 2016, while staying at Cibolo Creek Ranch in Presidio County, Texas. He was found unresponsive and was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital....

Relationships

Stephen Breyer, the retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice, has been married to Joanna (Hillary) Graber Breyer since 1967. She is a retired academic and administrator born in 1942,...

government-and-policy

A US Supreme Court nomination is the process by which the President selects an individual to fill a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court, and the Senate then considers and...

biography

Neil M. Gorsuch is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, appointed in 2017. This profile provides a straightforward overview of his background, focusin...

law

Obergefell v. Hodges, decided on June 26, 2015, held that the Fourteenth Amendment requires all states to license marriages between two people of the same sex and to recognize s...

legal

Whether gay marriage is going back to the Supreme Court starts with this baseline: same-sex marriage is a federally recognized right under Obergefell v. Hodges, but that ruling...