Supreme Court Justices Powell, Blackmun, and Stevens allowed the death penalty to return. Then they disavowed it.

"I am prepared to allow history's judgment of my term in office to rest (if necessary, exclusively) on my nomination 30 years ago of Justice John Paul Stevens to the U.S. Supreme Court," wrote former ...

Arlington National Cemetery has long been planned as the final resting place of retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. His second wife Maryan died in 2015 and was buried at the cemetery. The ...

has written a great column refuting all of the claims about the Second Amendment and school violence made by former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in his misinformed op-ed in the New ...

President Trump hasn’t called up Seal Team Six to kill any yet, but he has fired a lot of them and gone after still more. ...

So with that in mind, I’d like to praise Justice John Paul Stevens’s opinion in 1978 in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. In that opinion, Justice Stevens concluded that Title ...

Lewis Powell, Harry Blackmun, and John Paul Stevens allowed the death penalty to return. Then they disavowed it. The Washington Monthly is an independent voice, listened to by insiders and willing to ...

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Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens published an op-ed in the New York Times today suggesting that the solution to America's gun problem ...