In public, the chief justice loves talking about how the Supreme Court’s work is not political. His leaked memos reveal just ...
Link to: The Supreme Court Keeps Embracing Convenient Lies to Excuse Rank Bigotry ...
Barely halfway through oral argument in Trump v. Barbara, the Supreme Court case about President Donald Trump’s attempt to revoke the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship, it ...
Fifty years ago, the 17 Black members of the House of Representatives launched the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, a policy research and educational institute aimed at empowering the Black ...
On January 20, 2025—his first day back in the White House—President Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting to override the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.
Last week’s ruling in Chiles v. Salazar, the Supreme Court’s case about “conversion therapy” in Colorado, lays bare the disturbing world that awaits us if we continue to let the First Amendment run ...
On May 22, 2022, three police officers for the city of Childersburg, Alabama, responded to a 911 call from a woman requesting they check on her neighbors’ house. The elderly white residents were out ...
The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Trump v. Barbara, a case about President Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to redefine birthright citizenship and render hundreds of thousands of ...
Almost four years have passed since the Supreme Court rescinded the constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Today, 13 states enforce total abortion bans, and ...
In its 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder, the Republican-led Court gutted the VRA’s most innovative provision, which required jurisdictions with a history of discrimination to “preclear” ...
Link to: The Trump White House Is Very Upset About States That Won’t Do Its Dirty Work ...