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People (7)
Earl Warren
Chief Justice whose Court transformed American civil rights, 1953–1969
John Marshall
Chief Justice who forged the Supreme Court into a coequal branch of government
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The Great Dissenter — Supreme Court Justice and philosopher of American law, 1902–1932
Roger Taney
Chief Justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision — the worst ruling in the Court's history
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court Justice and architect of American gender equality law, 1993–2020
Sandra Day O'Connor
First woman to serve on the Supreme Court, 1981–2006
Thurgood Marshall
The lawyer who dismantled segregation in court and became the first Black Supreme Court Justice
Places (3)
Cherokee Nation
The sovereign nation reconstituted in Indian Territory after the Trail of Tears
Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
The offshore prison built to sit outside the law, opened 2002
The Black Hills
The mountains the Supreme Court said were taken illegally — and that the Lakota have refused to sell back
Events (1)
Election of 2000
Bush v. Gore and the 36-day Florida recount that decided the presidency
Documents (20)
Brown v. Board of Education
The 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared school segregation unconstitutional
Dred Scott v. Sandford
The 1857 Supreme Court ruling that declared Black Americans had no constitutional rights
Eighth Amendment
The ban on cruel and unusual punishment
Eleventh Amendment
State sovereign immunity from federal lawsuits
Fifth Amendment
Due process, self-incrimination, and the rights of the accused
Fourth Amendment
The guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures
Gibbons v. Ogden
The 1824 ruling that gave Congress the power to regulate the national economy
Gideon v. Wainwright
The unanimous 1963 ruling that guaranteed the right to counsel for every criminal defendant
Korematsu v. United States
The 1944 ruling that upheld Japanese American internment — and was later repudiated
Loving v. Virginia
The 1967 ruling that struck down bans on interracial marriage
Marbury v. Madison
The 1803 ruling that established the Supreme Court's power to strike down laws
McCulloch v. Maryland
The 1819 ruling that established the doctrine of implied federal powers
Miranda v. Arizona
The 1966 ruling that gave every suspect the right to silence
Obergefell v. Hodges
The 2015 Supreme Court decision that established the constitutional right to same-sex marriage
Plessy v. Ferguson
The 1896 Supreme Court ruling that made "separate but equal" the law of the land
Roe v. Wade
The 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion a constitutional right — and its 2022 reversal
Sixth Amendment
The right to a speedy, public, and fair criminal trial
The Insular Cases
The decisions that held the Constitution does not fully follow the flag, from 1901
The Second Amendment
Twenty-seven words at the center of America's gun debate
United States v. Nixon
The unanimous 1974 ruling that forced the White House tapes and ended a presidency
Concepts (1)
Judicial Review
The power of courts to strike down laws that violate the Constitution
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