The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.” As Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens understood, this phrase was ...
"I am prepared to allow history's judgment of my term in office to rest (if necessary, exclusively) on my nomination 30 years ago of Justice John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Supreme Court," wrote former ...
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As we face this crossroad, it is striking that three Justices whose votes allowed the death penalty to be revived in 1976—Lewis Powell, Harry Blackmun, and John Paul Stevens—came to regret and ...
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens published an op-ed in the New York Times today suggesting that the solution to America's gun problem ...