Justice

It’s about more than immigration.

Experts see parallels between modern restrictions on drag shows and the cross-dressing laws that led police to arrest Babe Bean over 120 years ago in California.

Lessons on race-neutral admissions from California.

A minor incident gets distorted in order to provide a desired racial story.

On Philip Dray’s “A Lynching at Port Jervis.”

His works underpins the Dobbs decision. His legacy matters enormously to what's next for constitutional law.

The conservative justice is on course for an originalist fight with Neil Gorsuch.

While we may never know the full truth, we owe it to those harmed and killed to illuminate their stories.

Suspected of orchestrating the Lincoln assassination, the South’s most prominent Jew escaped to London to start a new life as a high-powered lawyer.

Ted Kaczynski’s criticisms of environmental destruction and out-of-control technology were incisive, but his terroristic methods had no chance of solving those problems.

The story of Mabel Ping‑Hua Lee.

The Brown v. Board of Education ruling opened the floodgates for busing across the country, but what happened when the buses stopped rolling?

A summary of how white migration out of the postbellum South entrenched Confederate culture across the U.S. during postwar reconciliation.

Twenty years ago, Sandra Day O'Connor's deleted draft opinion rejected favoring white applicants over Asian Americans. Why did Clarence Thomas adopt it?

If judges are going to use history as their guide, they should probably try to get the history right.

The presence of Federalist judges frustrated Thomas Jefferson and his Democratic-Republican Party, bring justice Samuel Chase under fire.

Once considered a relic of moral panics past, the 1873 law criminalized sending "obscene, lewd or lascivious" materials through the mail.

A new lawsuit builds on 50 years of history in environmental activism.

The conservative backlash to the civil-rights era began immediately — and now it’s nearly complete.

The government responded with ruthless persecution — just one egregious example in the NSA’s long, sordid history of fiercely guarding its secrecy.

A massive protest by Mexican American high school students was a milestone in a movement for Chicano rights.

Witness to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

How college basketball coach Pat Summitt transformed women's sports.

The argument made recently by Kim Forde-Mazrui may not be in good faith, but it does raise important questions about the meaning of the Constitution.

On the mobility controls faced by refugees, and who had the right to remain in American cities and states in the Early Republic.

The unity of two long-neglected communities during trying times is a reminder of what we desperately need in Los Angeles.

The Supreme Court Justice's defense of Plessy v. Ferguson in a 1993 memo continues to influence the court's interpretation of the 14th amendment.

The war marked a sea change in how black men viewed their own citizenship.

Two decades passed before the ghosts of the Rosenbergs came back to haunt Irving Kaufman, the judge who sentenced them to death.

More than 50 years after the Stonewall uprising marked the birth of a movement for LGBTQ+ rights, transgender activists continue to push for inclusion.