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Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?

In a recently published brief, the Justice Department claimed that residents of U.S. territories do not have a right to U.S. citizenship under the Constitution.

In the 20th century, the US constitution was emulated by democracies around the world. No longer: its antiquated institutions and an absence of rights have guaranteed its declining influence. Chile is seeking a different path.

There can be long periods where it feels impossible to amend the Constitution. But then conditions change and in a very short period of time there can be three, four or five amendments. The heart of the story is progressive change.

Originalism, as used by this Court, just provides cover for a right-wing polit­ical agenda. It is a threat to democracy.

The power to check the Supreme Court is there, in the Constitution. The task now is to seize it.

We must reject the legal liberalism that attempts to cordon off constitutional questions from democratic politics.

Conventional wisdom says that the rule of the majority is in unavoidable tension with the rights of the minority.

The striking history behind the president’s invocation of the Ninth Amendment.