Sandra Day O'Connor's years at Stanford University were always seen as fateful ones in shaping the life of one of the nation's most historic women, but a new book suggests they were more pivotal than ...

On this day in 1972, Justices Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist joined the Supreme Court. It was one of the rare occasions ...

Today’s hottest celebrity gossip comes not from the VIP section of 1 Oak, nor the pews of Hillsong, but the bench of the United States Supreme Court. The tip came to NPR from Justice Sandra Day ...

He died at his home in Arlington, Va. at the age of 80 from thyroid cancer. Word of the chief justice’s battle with thyroid cancer came out soon after he entered the National Naval Medical Center at ...

Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said, “The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October and continued to perform his duties on the court until a precipitous decline in his ...

Mourners gathered at Washington's St. Matthew's Cathedral Wednesday for the funeral of Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Rehnquist, who died Saturday at 80 after a battle with thyroid cancer, will be ...

Sandra Day O'Connor may have been Sandra Day Rehnquist, had a certain former chief justice had his way a few decades ago. O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, and William Rehnquist, who was ...

Time to dip once again into the mother lode of Federal Bureau of Investigation memos about William Rehnquist. The memos, released recently under the Freedom of Information Act, were written prior to ...

Readers of Ted Kennedy's memoir, "True Compass" -- consistently near the top of all best-seller lists since late September -- will occasionally find the late senator in a contrite frame of mind. Of ...

Long before Sandra Day O’Connor became the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, she dated another future justice when she was just 19 years old. NPR reports that, according to the ...