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January 8, 2016
Rebecca Leber
Texas Governor Greg Abbott wants a constitutional convention to give states the power to nullify the Supreme Court.
January 6, 2016
David H. Gans
How Gay Marriage’s Triumph Could Protect Abortion Rights
The Supreme Court's interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment may play a role in its biggest abortion case in decades.
December 14, 2015
Robert Percival
Can Obama’s Climate Pledges Survive Republican Opposition?
December 10, 2015
Brian Beutler
This isn’t close to the best example of Antonin Scalia’s bigotry.
December 9, 2015
David H. Gans
Will Affirmative Action Live to Fight Another Day?
At the Supreme Court, at least one justice appeared keen to send a big case about race-based admissions back down to the lower courts.
December 9, 2015
Liliana M. Garces
Race Matters in College Admissions, Now More Than Ever
After Ferguson, the Supreme Court's decision on Fischer v. University of Texas is doubly important.
December 9, 2015
David H. Gans
At the Supreme Court, Equal Representation Is in Danger
A case centering on the "one person, one vote" principle is challenging a fundamental premise of the Constitution.
December 7, 2015
David H. Gans
Up Next at the Supreme Court: A Challenge to Equality for All Americans
A legal mastermind seeks to gut affirmative action and voting rights by rewriting the Fourteenth Amendment
November 18, 2015
Simon Lazarus
The Stealth Corporate Takeover of the Supreme Court
Three cases under consideration show how Big Business is using the court to tilt the law in its favor.
November 17, 2015
Jeet Heer
Antonin Scalia does not understand the difference between gay people and child abusers.
October 30, 2015
Spencer Amdur
The Supreme Court Takes On the All-White Jury
The high court on Monday will confront a sordid history of juror suppression
October 5, 2015
Melvin I. Urofsky
Will the Supreme Court’s New Term Deliver the Next Great Dissent?
October 2, 2015
Lawrence Goldstone
Citizens United's Legal Roots Lie in the Jim Crow Supreme Court
September 20, 2015
Lawrence Goldstone
Ben Carson Thinks Islam Isn't Consistent With the Constitution. He's Dead Wrong.
September 14, 2015
Simon Lazarus
A Federal Judge's Decision Will Make Washington Even More Dysfunctional
The House lawsuit over Obamacare is going forward. Is the Iran deal next?
September 8, 2015
Samuel Bagenstos
Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Never Should Have Gone to Jail
August 30, 2015
The New Republic
The New Republic in the Lochner Era
August 17, 2015
Steve Oney
A Distant Mirror: The Leo Frank Lynching
How a century-old crime foreshadowed today's polarized politics.
July 24, 2015
E.J. Graff
Inside the Fight to End Trans Discrimination in the Military
July 23, 2015
Joseph Pomianowski
Police Have Too Much Power Over Motorists
Sandra Bland's violent arrest shows why the law must change

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