White, appointed by John F. Kennedy, who dissented from Roe v. Wade, but one largely draws a blank. Ask the converse, and the list is long and disheartening. Republican appointees formed the majority in Roe v. Wade (Harry Blackmun, William J. Brennan,...

The difference is statistically significant. But most of the difference can be explained by the decisions of the court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, from 1953 to 1969, a famously liberal court that ruled in favor of free speech 69 percent of the time.

But after the U.S. Supreme Court took up Reed’s case, Ginsburg led others writing the brief that accompanied Derr’s basic argument: That the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment forbid such discrimination. In their 7-0 decision, Supreme Court justices...

When the case eventually reached the Supreme Court, the justices struck down the statute unanimously. “By providing dissimilar treatment for men and women who are thus similarly situated, the challenged section violates the Equal Protection Clause,”...