Joseph Story

How John Marshall, Joseph Story, and Roger Taney strengthened the institution of slavery and embedded in the law a systemic hostility to fundamental freedom and basic justice.

The malice test is the result of judicial activism and should be rejected by a Court that understands its task as the discovery, not the invention of law.

The Supreme Court has invested the presidency with quasi-monarchial powers, repudiating the foundational principle of the rule of law.

On the legal challenges to racist presidential policy that led to the Trail of Tears.

Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.

It’s time to admit that the nation’s highest court has been a source of harm more often than it’s been a force for justice.

The idea that justices exist outside of politics is a relatively new concept.

The constitutional standard for impeachment is different from what’s at play in a regular criminal trial.