Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

There is no such thing as an achieved liberty; like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated as it is enjoyed, or the lights g…

His speech breaks through the printed page. He was one of those rare men whose spoken word survives in type.

For over a century it has been the settled doctrine of the Supreme Court that the principle of stare decisis has only limited application in constitutional cas…