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Demonstrators with signs supporting the legalization of abortion.

What Are the Lessons of “Roe”?

A new book chronicles the decades-long fight to legalize abortion in the United States.
by Moira Donegan via The Nation on April 4, 2023

Civil Rights Legislation Sparked Powerful Backlash that's Still Shaping American Politics

Conservatives and the GOP have mounted a decadeslong legal fight to turn the clock back on the political gains of the civil rights movement.
by Julian Maxwell Hayter via The Conversation on February 3, 2023
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The Case of Aaron Burr Suggests Donald Trump Won’t Face Consequences

Despite several new lawsuits, investigations, and the bombshell revelations, Trump’s fate will be like that of the former vice president.
by Nicholas Foreman via Made By History on October 5, 2022
Graphic design of a red, fractured United States on a yellow background

There Is Absolutely Nothing to Support the ‘Independent State Legislature’ Theory

Such a doctrine would be antithetical to the Framers’ intent, and to the text, fundamental design, and architecture of the Constitution.
by J. Michael Luttig via The Atlantic on October 3, 2022
Photo of E.P.A Headquarters, shot through a bush

How Government Ends

Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.
by Lisa Heinzerling via Boston Review on September 28, 2022
Artwork of the Supreme Court but with chess pieces used as columns..

The Supreme Court Is Not Supposed to Have This Much Power

And Congress should claw it back.
by Daphna Renan, Nikolas Bowie via The Atlantic on June 8, 2022
Chuck Grassley looking at his phone during confirmation hearing

A Brief Guide to Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings, the Silliest Ritual In Washington

Supreme Court confirmation hearings feature senators talking a lot, and nominees nodding politely until they can leave.
by Jay Willis via Balls And Strikes on March 15, 2022
Black and white photo featuring eight of the nine Scottsboro Boys with NAACP representatives Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Laura Kellum, and Dr. Ernest W. Taggart—was taken inside the prison where the Scottsboro Boys were being held.

Who Were the Scottsboro Nine?

The young black men served a combined total of 130 years for a crime they never committed.
by Alice George via Smithsonian on March 23, 2021

The Great Liberal Reckoning Has Begun

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg concludes an era of faith in courts as partners in the fight for progress and equality.
by Alan Z. Rozenshtein via The Atlantic on September 22, 2020
Inside the courtroom during the Ziang Sun Wan trial.

The 1919 Murder Case That Gave Americans the Right to Remain Silent

Decades before the Miranda decision, a Washington triple-homicide paced the way to protect criminal suspects.
by Scott D. Seligman via Zócalo Public Square on April 30, 2018
Painting of the signing of the Constitution.

The Original Theory of Constitutionalism

The debate between "originalism" and the "living constitution" rages on. What does history say?
by David Singh Grewal, Jedediah Britton-Purdy via The Yale Law Journal on January 24, 2018
Ruth Bader Ginsburg sitting on a chair in a room with a fireplace

How Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Moved the Supreme Court

Despite her path-braking work as a litigator before the Court, she doesn't believe that large-scale social change should come from the courts.
by Jeffrey Toobin via The New Yorker on March 11, 2013

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