While the Constitution does not specify who must administer oaths, Chief Justice John Roberts is expected to swear in Donald ...

George Will’s Sunday column is a nice tribute to Chief Justice John Marshall, who (as I recently posted) was born 250 years ago September 24. It’s a good column, marred only by two small things.

John Marshall, the “great Chief Justice” (1803-35), was especially concerned with civic education of the young, and his judicious statesmanship stands as a model from which we today can benefit. By ...

1789: Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States. 1801: John Marshall took office as chief justice of the ...

“You wonder if you’re going to be John Marshall or you’re going to be Roger Taney,” Roberts told a law school audience in ...

Madison to say what the court’s power is, is remarkable,” she said, referring to the foundational opinion written by Chief ...