Earl Warren

Reconsidering Earl Warren's place in U.S. history.

Though best known for his dedication to civil rights as Chief Justice, Earl Warren was a key figure behind Japanese internment in California - and stood by it.

The rhetorically modest but functionally powerful ruling that ended segregation shouldn’t be misused to forestall other efforts at racial equality.

Sylvia Mendez’s role in setting the stage for Brown v. Board of Education has been forgotten and overlooked.

The field of political consulting was unknown before Leone Baxter and Clem Whitaker founded Campaigns, Inc., in 1933.

The same legal and cultural struggles will await the next critical infrastructural technology, and the next.

Stephen Breyer criticizes recent Supreme Court decisions and argues for a more pragmatic jurisprudence.

Matthew Lassiter’s history plays out in ranch houses, high school parking lots, and courtrooms from Shaker Heights to Westchester to Orange County.

Water insecurity, territorial expansion, and the making of a US-Mexico border city.

A reminder of how tricky it is to balance protecting transparency and freedom of association.

One thing’s for sure: The CIA doesn’t want you to know.

In “The Court at War,” Cliff Sloan examines the close relationship between FDR and the high court during World War II.

Decades of Supreme Court decisions have converted qualified immunity from a commonsense rule into a powerful doctrine that deprives people injured by police misconduct of recourse.

It was the first Southern school to be integrated by court order, and the town reluctantly prepared to comply. Then an acolyte of Ezra Pound’s showed up.

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

A location-based timeline and interactive map of the L.A. Zoot Suit Riots.

The 1954 Supreme Court decision, based on the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, declared that “separate but equal” has no place in education.

The John Birch Society pushed a darker, more conspiratorial politics in the ’50s and ’60s — and looms large over today’s GOP.

When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the future of affirmative action, I knew I had to be there.

The more liberals present originalist arguments, the more they legitimate originalism.