Justice

As the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 proposes to revive the Comstock Act, this seven-part forum explores the Act’s influence on American life.

In the midst of the Great Depression, one CIO union used the new administrative state to influence legislation on behalf of people considered outcasts.

Two Carvers and the fight for fair desegregation.

The court’s ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson involves highly selective readings of the historiography and a willful misrepresentation of history.

Henry Hale Bliss’ death presaged the battle between the 20th-century automobile lobby and walkers in U.S. cities.

President Ford’s pardon of Nixon is seen as a damaging precedent establishing presidential impunity. Now, the Supreme Court has affirmed that impunity.

Anthony Comstock, Victoria Woodhull, and what a battle from the 1870s means for 2024 and reproductive rights.

Many vignettes of sheriffs in action are dramatic and alarming. But how representative are they?

On the independence of the Muscogee Nation.

The originalist revolution will never be complete until we fully appreciate the natural law roots of the common law.

A new book examines battles over drag story hours and book bans through the lens of LGBTQ history.

Leading up to a 2004 debate about same-sex marriage, conservatives shifted their focus away from moral issues and toward arguments about children’s welfare.

A new book offers a fresh perspective on the resistance of enslaved women and their interactions with the law.

Twenty-five years ago, protesters shut down the meeting of the World Trade Organization. At the time, it seemed very important. But is it now?

A new book on the famed 1920s court case traces a long-simmering culture war—and the fear that often drives both sides.

Stephen Breyer criticizes recent Supreme Court decisions and argues for a more pragmatic jurisprudence.

How women's liberation transformed America and why our understanding of 1963-1973 needs to include more voices.

Originalism is not so much an idea as a legal-industrial complex divided into three parts—the academic, the jurisprudential, and the political.

MAGA has been a largely white movement of non-urban people who seem to think that people unlike them are scary and that there is only safety in homogeneity.

An anti-Vietnam protest that resulted in the Supreme Court confirming that students are persons under the constitution.

How an unlikely American friendship should inspire diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Racist mobs attacked a 1949 concert in Peekskill, NY, raising anti-communist fervor and showing how hatred could gain legitimacy amid today’s political turmoil.

As protesters prepare for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, a half-century old report provides lessons for preventing chaos.

Unlikely activist Don Baker scored a landmark win for gay rights in Texas 42 years ago this week.

The journey of America’s police force from a non-professional night watch to a highly visible and professional force.

Leaders in the 20th-century South faced violence and death for promoting voting rights; systemic failure enabled their killers to go unpunished.

One young conservative lawyer would lead a determined fight to maintain Lewis Powell’s blindfolded race neutrality.

The enslaved Prince Whipple acutely felt the contradiction between American ideals and his condition.

The history of sheriffs suggests we need to pay attention to what our local sheriffs do, vote in local elections, and choose our sheriffs wisely.

For the first time, men are permitted to compete in artistic swimming at the 2024 Olympics. But none will.