Sarah A. Seo

For the poor, who are disproportionately people of color, the criminal justice system in the United States is essentially a plea-and-probation system.

In 1963, after Sam Cooke was turned away from a hotel in Shreveport, Louisiana, because he was black, he wrote “A Change Is Gonna Come.” He was right.

Most communities barely had a police force and citizens shared responsibility for enforcing laws. Then the car changed everything.

The discretionary nature of traffic enforcement has left it ripe for abuse.

The brewing conflict between originalism and law-and-order politics.

The Supreme Court punts on Hernandez v. Mesa, leaving the Constitution lost in the borderlands.