Growing up in the postwar years, I learned to prize education, civil rights and the rule of law.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s new book, “Reading the Constitution,” which rejects the originalist approach of the court’s conservative majority, is less an argument for ...

Justice Stephen Breyer asserted his opposition to packing the Supreme Court in remarks he made yesterday at Harvard Law School. The Court’s authority, he said, relies on “a trust that the ...

Current and former justices of the Supreme Court released a statement in response to the death of Justice David Souter.

It’s a Washington mystery that no one seems able to unravel. The Supreme Court apparently still hasn’t found the person who leaked a draft of the court’s major abortion ...

Born on Aug. 15, 1938, in San Francisco, Stephen Breyer had a lengthy career in law and the justice system before joining the Supreme Court. After graduating from Stanford, Oxford and Harvard Law ...

Ketanji Brown Jackson makes history as first Black woman confirmed to U.S. Supreme Court, replacing Justice Breyer.

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer said the Trump administration could be held in criminal contempt over Kilmar Abrego’s deportation at a Harvard Law School speaker event on ...

In pointed remarks, the justice told an audience of hundreds of lawyers that she had joined them as “an act of solidarity.” ...

Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter was a steady member of the high court's liberal wing during his tenure despite ...

Twentieth-century America emphasized many of the values I hold dear—especially the rule of law. I grew up in San Francisco just after World War II. What I learned then may prove helpful now. I ...