Justice

A Library of Congress exhibit on the context, passage, and significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Was the 2008 Heller decision a victory for originalism or a living Constitution?

In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan villainized a Chicago woman for bilking the government. Her other sins were far worse.

How a landmark report on the 1960s race riots fell short on police reform.

Dred Scott was an opportunity to settle what the South had previously been unable to achieve either legislatively or judicially.

Before Roe, abortion providers operated on the margins of medicine. They still do.

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

Irish-born women were disproportionately imprisoned in America for most of the nineteenth century.

50 years later, Philip Levine's poem, "They Feed They Lion," helps us remember and understand that time.

Before the 9-year-old Linda Brown became the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, a generation of black girls and teens led the charge against the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.

Sixty years after the decision, it’s worth remembering it took Congress's Civil Rights Act to finally smash Jim Crow.

The Communist Party fought for racial equality in the South, specifically Alabama, where segregation was most oppressive.