Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People.

Currently there are nine Supreme Court justices. But that has not always been the case. The current number was settled on in 1869. Prior to that, the number of justices authorized by Congress ...

The defining characteristic of the American experience is the premise of law as a check on governmental power. Challenged throughout our history and subjected to stresses and strains inflicted by ...

But his research shows that the current justices on the Supreme Court are highly intelligent people who have similar backgrounds and who lack broadly based experiences. “Seven justices grew up ...

The annual disclosures have received heightened attention since ProPublica revealed in 2023 that Justice Clarence Thomas ...

This is the first time during this current term in the Supreme Court that two ... via Getty Images/Getty Images Meanwhile, this is not the first time that more than one justice sat out a case ...

Since O'Connor's appointment, four other women have sat on the Supreme Court bench with three of the nine current Court's justices being female. The other female justices include Justice Ruth ...

The portrait of the justices is important, but if you’re like me, when you imagine the court the first image that comes to mind is probably this one: The Supreme Court Building — a solid ...

Today’s U.S. Supreme Court is both highly diverse and homogeneous, not entirely unlike nine jugs that each have a unique color, composition, size and shape and contain sparkling mineral water from the ...