The Second Amendment was intended in the first instance to protect slaveholders from the people they owned.
Why a relatively young legal doctrine has become all the rage among the court’s right-wing majority
The Framers would have never tolerated debt-limit brinkmanship. It’s time to put this terrible idea on trial.
This book is a detailed critique of the judicial philosophy to which the current majority of the Supreme Court of the United States adheres.
On “Repeal Day,” remember that the war against alcohol was ultimately a war against political corruption and unbridled capitalism.
The Supreme Court hearings on affirmative action revealed just how weak the right-wing position is—but the GOP justices will overturn the policy anyway.
There is no consensus for Court reform and there are not the votes for it in Congress. But circumstances do change, often unexpectedly. Should progressives gain the opportunity to make structural changes to the Supreme Court, they should take it.
A new book argues that the Constitution is best understood as a document calling for the unashamed struggle for equality.
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.
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