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Jun 12, 2024 · John Paul Stevens, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1975 to 2010. He was known as an independently minded justice who occupied a moderately liberal position on the court.
5 days ago · “Justice John Paul Stevens played a pivotal role in determining the scope of executive-branch power in a post-9/11 world,” observed the Congressional Research Service in one of a series of new reports reviewing the legacy and impact of Justice Stevens, who is set to retire from the Supreme Court next month.
Jun 28, 2024 · “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. But the current high court, with a 6-3 conservative majority, has been increasingly skeptical of the powers of federal agencies.
Jun 24, 2024 · “Normally I didn’t even read amicus briefs,” Justice John Paul Stevens told me in 2011, a year after he retired and a few years before he died in 2019.
Jun 26, 2024 · In a lengthy and impassioned dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens warned that the court’s ruling threatened “to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the Nation.”
3 days ago · John Paul Stevens, 90th Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, clerked for Justice Wiley Rutledge during the 1947–48 term.. Law clerks have assisted the justices of the United States Supreme Court in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in 1882.
17 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 .
