It has been revealed that by "mere coincidence" Justice Hugo L. Black has now on his working staff a Jew, and a negro who is at the same time a Catholic. The Jew is Jerome A. Cooper, a Harvard ...

In this week's "It's Debatable" segment, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate if the government should be able to restrain ...

The murder trial in the Coyle killing was historic, partly because of the role played by future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. Black defended the accused killer, the Rev. Edwin R.

This traditional view was defended by Justice Hugo Black in his dissenting opinion in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965): quoting Madison’s Bill of Rights speech, Black described the Ninth Amendment ...

Truman lacked the authority to seize steel mills without congressional authorization. Justice Hugo Black concluded, “In the framework of our Constitution, the President’s power to see that the ...

Fortas, however, was able to convince Justice Hugo Black to have the order reversed, and Johnson's name was placed on the ballot, sans investigation. Since that time, Fortas has been called upon ...

Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black That’s how many Americans prefer mainstream and network outlets, like CBS News (owned by ...

Without endorsing any particular filings, we should remember that judicial action to ensure a fair outcome has been a common ...

As former Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black wrote in 1960, “Since the earliest days philosophers have dreamed of a country where the mind and spirit of man would be free; where there would be no ...

Two weeks from today, we will know who the next president of the United States will be. Or maybe we won’t. Or maybe we will know the results but will be unwilling to accept them. The pundits and the ...

During the doctrine’s formative years in the mid-twentieth century, Justice Hugo L. Black consistently maintained that all of the provisions in the first eight amendments should be deemed ...

Jefferson's metaphor lay largely ignored until 1947, when Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black invoked the phrase in Everson v. Board of Education and argued that the "wall of separation" must be ...