The Constitution and precedent make clear presidential authority is limited, but justices are ignoring these boundaries.

From the beginning the Supreme Court has always been guided by the famous pronouncement by Chief Justice John Marshall in ...

Marbury petitioned the Supreme Court to issue a writ of mandamus to compel Madison to act and give him the judgeship. The stage was set for the landmark Marbury v. Madison in 1803. Marbury won, and ...

Fighting 90 years of precedent, feds seek full presidential discretion over FTC removals A Biden-appointed judge seemed skeptical she could affirm President Donald Trump's terminations of two Federal ...

The genesis of judicial review The first and most defining assertion of constitutional boundaries came in 1803, with Marbury v. Madison. Outgoing President John Adams had appointed William Marbury as ...

Marbury petitioned the Supreme Court to issue a writ of mandamus to compel Madison to act and give him the judgeship. The stage was set for the landmark Marbury v. Madison in 1803. Marbury won, and ...

James Madison, Jefferson’s Secretary of State, told Marbury to pound sand: no commission for you. Charles Lee, Adams’s former Attorney general, asked the Supreme Court to order that Marbury ...

Monday: In Marbury v Madison, a ruling in 1803, the Supreme Court found against James Madison, Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of state. What had Madison done?

Activist judges are increasingly abusing their position to thwart the president’s actions on a nationwide level.

Another dissenter, Louis D. Brandeis, observed that in the foundational case of Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall “assumed, as the basis of decision, that the President, acting alone, is ...

Marshall initially held that Marbury should get his judgeship, and the writ of mandamus was the proper procedure to secure his commission. Federalists applauded that part of the opinion.