The Supreme Court A-Z

Abortion

Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice

Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

Affirmative Action

Aliens

Amending Process

Amicus Curiae

Antitrust

Appeal

Appellant

Appellee

Appointment and Removal Powers of the President

Arguments

Arms, Right to Bear

Arrests

Assembly, Freedom of

Assigning Opinions

Associate Justices

Association, Freedom of

Attainder, Bill of

Attorney General

Background of Justices

Bail

Baker v. Carr

Bakke

Baldwin, Henry

Barbour, Philip P.

Bar of the Supreme Court

Bill of Rights

Black, Hugo L.

Black, Jeremiah S.

Blackmum, Harry A.

Blair, John, Jr.

Blatchford, Samuel

Bradley, Joseph P.

Brandeis, Louis D.

Brennan, William J., Jr.

Brewer, David J.

Breyer, Stephen G.

Brief

Brown, Henry B.

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Burger, Warren E.

Burton, Harold H.

Busing

Butler, Pierce

Byrnes, James F.

Calhoun, John C.

Campaigns and Elections

Campbell, John A.

Capital Punishment

Cardozo, Benjamin N.

Case Law

Case or Controversy Rule

Catron, John

Certiorari

Chase, Salmon P.

Chase, Samuel

Chief Justice

Child Labor

Circuit Riding

Citizenship

Civil Liberties

Civil Rights

Civil War Amendments

Clark, Tom C.

Clarke, John H.

Class Action

Clay, Henry

Clerk of the Court

Clerks

Clifford, Nathan

Comity

Commerce Power

Common Law

Communism

Concurring Opinions

Conferences

Confessions

Confirmation Process

Congress and the Court

Congressional Immunity

Constitutional Law

Contempt of Court

Contract Clause

Cost of Supreme Court

Counsel, Right to Legal

Court Packing

Courts, Lower

Courts, Powers of

Criminal Law and Procedure

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

Curator's Office

Currency Powers

Curtis, Benjamin R.

Cushing, William

Daniel, Peter V.

Davis, David

Davis, John W.

Day, William R.

Death Penalty

Decision Days

De Facto, De Jure

Defendant

Dicta

Disability Rights

Discrimination

Dissenting Opinions

District Courts

Diversity Jurisdiction

Docket

Double Jeopardy

Douglas, William O.

Draft Law Cases

Dred Scott Case

Due Process

Duvall, Gabriel

Education and the Court

Eighth Amendment

Elections and the Court

Electronic Surveillance

Ellsworth, Oliver

Equal Protection

Exclusionary Rule

Executive Privilege and Immunity

Ex Parte

Ex Post Facto

Extrajudicial Activities

Fair Trial

Federalism

Federal Judicial Center

Felony

Field, Stephen J.

Fifteenth Amendment

Fifth Amendment

First Amendment

Flag Salute Cases

Foreign Affairs

Fortas, Abe

Fourteenth Amendment

Fourth Amendment

Frankfurter, Felix

Freedom of Assembly

Freedom of Association

Freedom of Press

Freedom of Religion

Freedom of Speech

Fuller, Melville W.

Garland, Augustus H.

Gay Rights

Gibbons v. Ogden

Gideon v. Wainwright

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader

Goldberg, Arthur J.

Grand Jury

Gray, Horace

Grier, Robert C.

Habeas Corpus

Hamilton, Alexander

Harlan, John Marshall

Harlan, John Marshall

Historical Society, Supreme Court

Historic Milestones

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.

Housing the Court

Hughes, Charles Evans

Hunt, Ward

Immunity

Impeachment

Impeachment of Justices

Income Tax

Incorporation Doctrine

Indictment

In Forma Pauperis

Injunction

Internet

Internment Cases

Interstate Commerce

Iredell, James

Jackson, Andrew

Jackson, Howell E.

Jackson, Robert H.

Jay, John

Jefferson, Thomas

Job Discrimination

Johnson, Thomas

Johnson, William

Judgment of the Court

Judicial Activism

Judicial Conference, U.S.

Judicial Power

Judicial Restraint

Judicial Review

Juries

Jurisdiction

Justiciability

Kennedy, Anthony M.

Lamar, Joseph R.

Lamar, Lucius Q. C.

Law Clerks

Legal Office of the Court

Legal System in America

Legal Tender Cases

Legislative Veto

Libel

Library of the Court

Lincoln, Abraham

Livingston, Henry B.

Loyalty Oaths

Lurton, Horace H.

McCulloch v. Maryland

McKenna, Joseph

McKinley, John

McLean, John

McReynolds, James C.

Mandamus

Mandatory Jurisdiction

Marbury v. Madison

Marshal of the Court

Marshall, John

Marshall, Thurgood

Matthews, Stanley

Merits, On the

Miller, Samuel F.

Minton, Sherman

Miranda v. Arizona

Misdemeanor

Moody, William H.

Moore, Alfred

Mootness

Murphy, Francis W.

Nelson, Samuel

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

New York Times Co. v. United States

Nixon, Richard

Nomination to the Court

Oaths of Office

Obiter Dictum

Obscenity and Indecency

O'Connor, Sandra Day

Official Immunity

Open Housing

Operations of the Court

Opinions

Original Intent

Original Jurisdiction

Packing the Court

Pardons

Parochial Schools, Aid to

Paterson, William

Peckham, Rufus W.

Pentagon Papers Case

Per Curiam Opinion

Personal Papers

Petition, Right of

Petitioner

Pitney, Mahlon

Plaintiff

Plea Bargaining

Plessy v. Ferguson

Plurality Opinion

Police Power

Political Question

Politics and the Court

Pornography

Powell, Lewis F., Jr.

Precedent

Preemption

President and the Court

Press, Freedom of

Prima Facie

Privacy, Right of

Probable Cause

Property Rights

Public Accommodations

Public Information Office

Public Opinion and the Court

Ratings of Justices

Reagan, Ronald

Reapportionment and Redistricting

Reed, Stanley F.

Rehnquist, William H.

Religion, Freedom of

Remand

Removal of Cases

Reporter of Decisions

Resignation

Respondent

Restraint, Judicial

Retirement

Reversals of Earlier Rulings

Reversals of Rulings by Constitutional Amendment

Reversals of Rulings by Legislation

Review, Judicial

Right to Bear Arms

Ripeness

Roe v. Wade

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rutledge, John

Rutledge, Wiley B.

Sanford, Edward T.

Scalia, Antonin

Scandals

Schedule of Arguments and Conferences

School Desegregation

School Prayer

Scottsboro Cases

Scott v. Sandford

Seal of the Court

Search and Seizure

Second Amendment

Sedition Laws

Segregation

Selective Service Rulings

Self-Incrimination

Seniority

Separate but Equal

Separation of Powers

Seventh Amendment

Severability

Sex Discrimination

Shiras, George, Jr.

Sixteenth Amendment

Sixth Amendment

Size of the Court

Slaughterhouse Cases

Slavery and the Court

Solicitor General

Souter, David H.

Speech, Commercial

Speech, Freedom of

Speedy Trial, Right to

Spending Powers

Standing to Sue

Stare Decisis

States and the Court

Steel Seizure Cases

Stevens, John Paul

Stewart, Potter

Stone, Harlan Fiske

Story, Joseph

Strict Construction

Strong, William

Students' Rights

Subpoena

Suffrage

Summary Judgment

Supremacy Clause

Supreme Court Building

Sutherland, George

Swayne, Noah H.

Taft, William Howard

Takings Clause

Taney, Roger B.

Taxing Power

Temporary Restraining Order

Tenth Amendment

Term Limits

Term of the Court

Test Case

Thirteenth Amendment

Thomas, Clarence

Thompson, Smith

Three-Judge Court

Todd, Thomas

Tort Law

Traditions of the Court

Travel, Right to

Treaty Power

Trials

Trimble, Robert

Twenty-fourth Amendment

Twenty-seventh Amendment

Twenty-sixth Amendment

Unconstitutional Statutes

Vacancy

Vacate

Van Devanter, Willis

Veto, Legislative

Veto Power

Vinson, Frederick M.

Voting Rights

Waite, Morrison R.

War Powers

Warren, Charles

Warren, Earl

Washington, Bushrod

Wayne, James M.

Webster, Daniel

White, Byron R.

White, Edward D.

Whittaker, Charles E.

Wilson, James

Woodbury, Levi

Woods, William B.

Workload of the Court

Writing Opinions

XYZ Affair

Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer

Zoning