Retired liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer began a two-day stint as a visiting judge on the federal appeals ...

Breyer, as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1990 to 1994, was involved in the design of ...

Retired US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer asked hypotheticals about punching law enforcement officers and driving a ...

One major case he will hear is arguments for the appeal of Alan Howell Parrot of Maine, who was sentenced and fined in ...

Businesses claim a voter-approved limit on the number of cruise passengers that can visit the town near Acadia National Park ...

Retired liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer plans to kick off 2025 by doing something he has not done in over two years: hear cases, this time as a visiting judge on the federal appeals ...

Carter appointed 262 federal judges during his years in office, more than any single-term president before him. He also ...

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is returning for a short stint on his old home turf — the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, based in Boston. The First Circuit hears ...

Former President Jimmy Carter’s expansion of the federal judiciary set a standard for future Democratic administrations, ...

The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and retired Justice Stephen Breyer also took subsided trips but disclosed them on their ...

Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, dissenting from the decision, stated that "money given for a charitable purpose might free up other money used to buy arms," but the same principle doesn't apply ...

Readers grapple with a recent Ideas piece that examined how the First Amendment has fostered, and protected, more "reckless" speech than "fearless" speech.