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5 days ago · “Justice Stevens has been instrumental in developing post-9/11 jurisprudence regarding the limits of executive power during — and following — armed conflicts. Prior to 9/11, the Supreme Court had rarely considered questions regarding potential limits on the President’s Commander in Chief power.
4 days ago · She served as a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens and Judge Richard Posner.
6 days ago · “Judges are not experts in the field, and are not part of either political branch of government,” Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in 1984, explaining why they should play a limited role.
5 days ago · On May 27, 1997, they ruled in a stunning 9-0 decision that Jones' case could proceed. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the opinion for the court. The court's decision stated that the president, like other government officials, is immune from civil lawsuits based on their official acts.
5 days ago · —U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, dissenting opinion in McCleskey v. Kemp (1987) “If society were indeed forced to choose between a racially discriminatory death penalty (one that provides heightened protection against murder ‘for whites only’) and no death penalty at all, the choice mandated by the Constitution would be ...
12 hours ago · Roberts took the Constitutional oath of office, administered by Associate Justice John Paul Stevens at the White House, on September 29, 2005. On October 3, he took the judicial oath provided for by the Judiciary Act of 1789 at the United States Supreme Court building .
4 days ago · Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote for the majority, and Justices John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O’Connor, Thurgood Marshall, and Harry A. Blackmun filed dissenting opinions. The court considered three challenges to the regulations.
