Kagan clerked for U.S. Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall for a term in 1987 and then served as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and later at Harvard Law, her alma mater.

Benjamin Barton speaks about the Supreme Court to the Holiday Luncheon of the League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge. He gave his talk in front of the bandstand at the 201 Café in Jackson Square.

But the chief message that Barton, a Supreme Court expert, conveyed about today’s Supreme Court at the recent Holiday Luncheon of the League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge was that the nine justices ...

In 1957, Williams pointed out, the Supreme Court had ruled in Jencks v. U.S. that a defendant in a criminal proceeding is entitled to see reports of pretrial testimony. Lower courts denied ...