You can skip your trip to the mailbox and your check-in on the stock market on Thursday: Various services nationwide will be paused in honor of the National Day of Mourning established for President ...

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—February 28 and 29 This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—February 27 1916—President Woodrow Wilson nominates Louis D. Brandeis to the Supreme Court.

2016—President Woodrow Wilson nominates Louis D. Brandeis to the Supreme Court. In the words of historian Paul Moreno, Brandeis would become the Court’s “first liberal judicial activist ...