CHICAGO -- Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has died at age 99. A statement from the U.S. Supreme Court said Stevens died in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, from complications following a ...

John Paul Stevens, whose 35 years on the U.S. Supreme Court made him the second-longest serving justice ever, died Tuesday at the age of 99 following a stroke he had suffered the day before. John Paul ...

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the court’s oldest member and leader of its liberal bloc, is retiring. President Barack Obama now has his second high court opening to fill.

The big Supreme Court news today is Jeffrey Toobin's New Yorker profile on Justice John Paul Stevens. Stevens is the fourth-longest-serving Justice in the Supreme Court's history, the oldest of his ...

When a Supreme Court justice announces his retirement—as John Paul Stevens did earlier today—the press immediately launches into its "first rough draft of history" mode, filing endless reams of ...

When Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens began hinting he would retire this year, the contours of the coming Supreme Court melee quickly became clear. Now that Stevens has formally announced that ...

Believe it or not, 90-year-old retiree John Paul Stevens is on a media blitz. Granted, he's a retiree of a rather prestigious kind, being the third-longest serving Supreme Court justice in history.

"Society changes. Knowledge accumulates. We learn, sometimes, from our mistakes. Punishments that did not seem cruel and unusual at one time may, in the light of reason and experience, be found cruel ...

Stevens served more than twice the average tenure for a justice, and was only the second to mark his 90th birthday on the high court. From his appointment by President Gerald Ford in 1975 through his ...