Justice

A plain reading of the Constitution refutes Trump’s claims about the Fourteenth Amendment, but a new legal movement is doing what it can to muddy the waters.

Those who sought to modernize and reform prisons have expanded them in the process and more permanently entrenched a racialized carceral state.

On the hundredth anniversary of Tennessee v. Scopes.

Blaming the British for the destruction helped persuade some colonists to back the fight for independence. But the source of the inferno was not what it seemed.

The brevity of the Fifteenth Amendment of the US Constitution belies its impact on American voting rights.

The story of how corruption became legal in America isn't just about memos, movements, and legal strategies.

Jane Fonda is reviving the Hollywood advocacy group to meet the high-stakes challenges to free expression in the Trump era.

Tracing John Lewis’s lifelong fight for democracy and inclusion.

Little Crow was one of the leaders of the Dakota Uprising of 1862, a conflict that began, as so many Indian wars did, because treaty rights were being ignored.

The protection against racial gerrymandering in Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is constitutional. Just read Section 2 of the 14th Amendment.

The question of what Jefferson meant by “all men” has defined American law and politics for too long.

Thousands of African Americans fought for the British—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement.

The leading arguments in support of Black voting rights were race-conscious at their core.

In trying to shut the door on race-conscious affirmative action, he may have quietly left another affirmative action door wide open.

Who gets to move freely in California’s auto insurance system?

Trump's NSPM-7 is a pivotal policy endangering free expression in the United States.

Island Trees v. Pico tested student rights, free expression and the limits of school boards.

A memoir explores L.A.'s political culture after the Rodney King beating.

A habitual drunkard’s journey through guardianship and the asylum.

The use of the punitive tactic exploded a century after US officials had deemed it too torturous.

Revisiting the lessons of Allan Bérubé’s 1990 history of queer solders during World War II.

Chief Justice John Roberts has now overseen 20 years of increasingly illiberal rulings by the Supreme Court.

Using the antiquated language of "vagrancy," Trump Administration officials are tapping into a long history of policing.

Redford’s legacy as an environmental activist and his 1992 film "Sneakers" reveal his foresight on climate, politics, and surveillance.

History suggests that uncivil discourse, while dangerous at times, has always been a defining feature of American democracy.

The FBI reads James Baldwin.

Fara Dabhoiwala’s case against free speech.

Firearm ownership meant something very different when the United States was founded.

A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.

A Black socialist magazine urges solidarity and action in 1919.