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THE MAKING OF A JUSTICE: REFLECTIONS ON MY FIRST 94 YEARS. By John Paul Stevens. New York: Little, Brown and Company. 2019. Pp. ix, 549. $35. I. Justice John Paul [...]

INTRODUCTION: TWO JUSTICES On June 27, 1979, the Supreme Court upheld an affirmative-action plan that set aside half the places in a steel industry training program for African American steelworkers. [...]

Tony Lewis called himself "a romantic about the Supreme Court." (1) If he had not been a romantic when he took up the beat for the New York Times in [...]

An introduction to articles published in this issue is presented including an article on the role of evidence in evaluating data collected during fieldwork expeditions, a mystery regarding blue spots in milk, and the use of medical case studies.

A story in the New York Times about a dispute involving the Fox News Channel described Fox News as 'a channel with a reputation for having a conservative point of [...]

I. It was late in November of 1972. Roe v. Wade (1) had been under consideration at the Supreme Court for a year, (2) with release of the opinion now [...]

The author, a Supreme Court press correspondent, discusses the relationship between the press and the Supreme Court. She examines the Court's duty to the media and the media's duty to the Court and the public.

In the article, the author examines the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees to show how the court retreated from the concept of collective good within the civil society framework. Topics include the case Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, the rulings' effects on organized labor, and the opinions of Justices Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas, and Wendy Beetlestone.

The article discusses Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade. Topics discussed include same-sex marriage, individual dignity use of contraception. Other topics which includes abortion in United States, procreation and personal identity and beliefs are also discussed. Right to privacy is mentioned.

The article focuses on U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Topics include the responsibilities and duties of the chief justice, the practice of self-assigning majority opinions, and performance patterns of chief justices outlined in the book "The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice," by Lee Epstein, William M. Landes, and Richard A. Posner.

The author discusses issues of litigation and separation of powers on the reason why not a single war prisoner in Guantánamo Bay in Cuba has been released under President George W. Bush's administration. She examines the reply to a question of detainees' rights to petition for habeas corpus which is noted in a memorandum dated December 28, 2001. She explains the sections 1005(e)(2)(c) and (e)(1) under the Detainee Treatment Act. She states the silence of the Supreme Court on the rights that detainees may seek to vindicate through their petitions.

The article focuses on former U.S. Supreme Court justice Lewis Powell Jr. A former chairman of the Richmond, Virginia school board, Powell was deemed as the "education Justice" and was best known for his ruling on the Plyler versus Doe case, wherein he concurred that a Texas statute that denies free education to illegal alien children in the U.S. should be abolished. The author ponders on what Powell's actions would be, in the light of numerous debates over the U.S. national immigration policy in 2008.

Presents an explanation on what happened in the 'Dickerson v. United States' case, which asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn 'Miranda v. Arizona,' the 1966 landmark case that required the police to give the so-called Miranda warnings before interrogating a suspect in custody. Jurisprudence of Chief Justice William Rehnquist and of the Court he has served for 31 years; Legal precedents of the case; Implications on law.