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April 1, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Supporters Aren’t Even Hiding They Hate the Constitution
Donald Trump’s backers are saying the quiet part out loud now.
October 19, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Constitution Is the Crisis
There’s no reason why a rigged Supreme Court should have the final say on the law of our land.
August 14, 2020
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Jabari Asim
The Douglass Republic
How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader
July 9, 2020
Nick Martin
Neil Gorsuch Affirms That Treaties With Tribal Nations Are the Law
In upholding the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s treaty-guaranteed lands, the justices did something simple but unexpected.
April 2, 2020
Matt Ford
The Emerging Right-Wing Vision of Constitutional Authoritarianism
Law professor Adrian Vermeule thinks America would be better off without individual liberty. It’s an increasingly popular view among a faction of conservatives.
March 5, 2020
Matt Ford
There Is Only One Way to Fix Our Broken Presidential Primary
What would the founders have done if they’d known we were going to inflict this terrible system upon ourselves?
September 9, 2019
Osita Nwanevu
The Right Wing’s Cultural Civil War Is a Drag
A splintered conservative movement slouches toward authoritarianism, thanks to—of all things—drag queens at the library.
August 22, 2019
Matt Ford
Conservative Judges Are Brawling Over Originalism
The union between the federal judiciary's true believers in the primacy of our founding documents is fraying.
September 20, 2015
Lawrence Goldstone
Ben Carson Thinks Islam Isn't Consistent With the Constitution. He's Dead Wrong.
November 21, 2014
Brian Beutler
Did Obama Literally Shred the Constitution? A TNR Investigation.
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