a supreme court ruling written by justice antonin scalia found that u.s. police officers have no duty or obligation to protect citizens - even children - from harm.

this right of privacy, whether it be founded in the 14th amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or in the 9th amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether to terminate her pregnancy. (an excerpt from the roe vs. wade ruling that made abortion legal in the u.s.)

a june 1972 memo written by justice douglas of the supreme court to his colleagues discussing the roe vs. wade case was leaked to and published in the washington post before the decision was published.

on june 26, 2015, the supreme court of the united states ruled that same sex marriages are legal and must be recognized in all 50 states.

tv detectives notwithstanding, the u.s. supreme court has ruled that the police can lie to you in order to:

• obtain evidence
• obtain information
• obtain confessions

150 of the stone monuments with the 10 commandments carved into them that you sometimes see sitting outside courthouses were created as props to promote the 1955 charlton heston classic film the ten commandments.

that's right - they're basically movie posters that never got taken down.

roe vs. wade, the landmark supreme court case that made banning abortion illegal, was a 7-2 decision. the conservatives on the court voted for it 5-1.

before becoming a supreme court justice, judge clarence thomas was a corporate lawyer for monsanto.

the c.i.a. abducted roughly 3,000 people between 2001 and 2005, sending them to so-called 'black sites' - prisons or other facilities in countries where the c.i.a. could torture them without violating u.s. law (because the torture did not happen on u.s. soil).

at least one of them - a german citizen - turned out not to be the person the c.i.a. thought he was. instead, he was an innocent bystander that they kidnapped, shipped overseas, interrogated, beat, tortured, and sodomized him for 4 months before realizing their error and releasing him.

he sued, but under pressure from the bush administration, every u.s. court - including the supreme court - declined to hear the case.