Former Supreme Court Justice Joseph McKenna was sworn in on this day in 1898. McKenna’s Oyez biography notes that, although he studied law before beginning a political career, he was […] The post ...

Racond, a historian of all things Washington, called the speech the soon-to-be president's "most important" action in ...

The power of the Executive Branch is vested in the President of the United States, who also acts as head of state and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. The President is responsible for ...

The late Justice Joe Boyd used to boast he was the only one on the Florida Supreme Court to have been officially declared sane. In 1975, a utility company needed a small legal favor, so they wrote a ...