Lewis F. Powell Jr.

How the Supreme Court has weaponized the Fourteenth Amendment and Brown v. Board of Education against antiracism.

The modern Republican Party has tied itself to Roe v. Wade. With the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs, the party is vulnerable to new issues.

The diminished status of the non-white working class is not a matter of accident, but of design.

For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.

In an excerpt from his new book, ‘Let the Lord Sort Them,’ Maurice Chammah explains where a 1970s legal team fighting the death penalty went wrong.

Beyond packing schemes, we need to diminish the high court’s power.

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg concludes an era of faith in courts as partners in the fight for progress and equality.

In 1987, the Supreme Court came within one vote of eliminating capital punishment in Georgia because of of racial disparities.

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

The lawsuit against Harvard forces us to talk about Asian Americans' role in the racial equity debate.

Members of the working class were once among the environmental movement's best allies. That support has largely disappeared.

Now the Janus decision has helped push the National Right to Work Committee and its sister organizations closer to that goal.

The 200-year legal struggle that led to Citizens United and gave corporations the rights of people.

How businesses campaigned to win constitutional rights and expand their political reach.

The long road from FDR to Trump.

Today’s Republicans would have fit right into Herbert Hoover’s administration.

A legal expert offers a First Amendment analysis of the summer’s violent rallies.

The Supreme Court and non-unanimous juries.

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