In the seminal case Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court decided that Marbury’s commission was valid and the new ...

The answer is complicated, but Chief Justice John Roberts may be treading a fine line between institutionalism and cowardice.

Why can one judge stop policy actions by Congress or the President? Federal judges have broad authority to interpret laws and ...

American colonists chose to stand against tyranny. When British troops marched into the Massachusetts countryside to seize weapons and supplies, they met armed resistance from colonists who refused to ...

when Marbury v. Madison was handed down. But if you listen closely to some of Trump’s most important advisers, we may not have seen anything just yet: they recognize virtually no limits to ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declared this authority in Marbury v. Madison (1803), where Chief Justice Marshall famously declared, “It is emphatically the duty of the Judicial Department to say what ...