Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a 1981 Reagan appointee who retired in 2006 and died last December, exemplified the phenomenon.

There's no indication of an impending court vacancy. But with Trump's win, Republicans will be in the driver's seat in making ...

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts knows that Justice Samuel Alito’s antics and ideology are getting out of hand—and that’s why he’s taking care to protect him from the public eye.

Even a majority of Republicans, whose party controls the Supreme Court, believe justices' decisions are being guided by their ...

Whoever wins the White House in November will face a closely divided Senate and, at least at first, relatively few judicial ...

We show that the Supreme Court is more likely to resolve ideologically polarizing legal questions. This result is based on a new technique for estimating the ideology of a doctrine, which we implement ...

Economic ideology and interpretation of Article 39(b ... rather than by a rigid ideological framework. The Supreme Court’s ...

Sherrod Brown is ousted in a much deserved upset that leaves an inviting opening on the Banking Committee for a partisan of ...

If Donald Trump uses the Education Department in the best way, he could have Democrats calling for it to be abolished before he leaves the White House.

He said even though politics was never present during his tenure on the Supreme Court, ideology, however, played a role in the Court. Current and former members of the U.S. Congress discussed ...

The majority was of the view that Justice Iyer’s “interpretation amounts to endorsing a particular economic ideology and ...