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.
This book shows how the country's anti-slavery sentiment based its views an abolitionist reading of the Constitution, and how that understanding influenced Lincoln's thinking.
Given the political realities and economic imperatives at play, free prison labor will persist in America for the foreseeable future, leaving in serious doubt the idea of American freedom – and abundant evidence of modern-day convict slavery.
The challenge to Representative Madison Cawthorn’s re-election bid could set a precedent to challenge other Republicans who encouraged the Jan. 6 attack.
The Vice President has constitutional rights, too. By a quirk of history, the plot against America is now also a plot against a Black woman’s right to vote.
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