Earl Warren

After months of political maneuvering, intrigue, backroom bargaining, and furious oratory, the fate of FDR's plan was clear.

And why they must resist the Court's current race-based precedents.

Our fights over nominees might be bitter, but they’re still less contentious than the 19th century.

A new book chronicles the shocking, decades-long effort to combat venereal disease by locking up girls and women.

How and why the First Amendment became a weapon for the right.

It used to be that nobody would admit to opposing a nominee for ideological reasons. Should we be happy that illusion is over?

Every law student knows John Brady’s name. But few know the story of the bumbling murder that ended in a landmark legal ruling.

I was sent to a camp at just 5 years old — but even then, they didn't separate children from families.

How a conservative agenda and a feminist cause came together to transform criminal justice.

Decades before the Miranda decision, a Washington triple-homicide paced the way to protect criminal suspects.

The debate between "originalism" and the "living constitution" rages on. What does history say?

Fifty years after Loving v. Virginia, four scholars consider the legacy of the famous Supreme Court decision.

How local prosecutors' offices have become stepping stones to higher office.

Decades of tough-on-crime policies that criminalized the poor and people of color are yet to be undone, but the pendulum is beginning to swing.

The executive order that forced Japanese-Americans from their homes also put immigrants from Italy under surveillance.

The amendment, which brought an end to slavery in the U.S., could be used to begin a national debate on reparations.

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.

David Garland makes a powerful argument that will persuade many readers that the death penalty is unwise and unjustified.

The fear and hysteria that led to Japanese interment during World War II was manufactured for corporate profit.