Garrett Epps

Originalism is not so much an idea as a legal-industrial complex divided into three parts—the academic, the jurisprudential, and the political.

Despite Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, a Colorado state judge stretches the word “officer,” permitting him to remain on the state’s ballot.

Former Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust’s extraordinary memoir recalls painful memories for her--and me.

At the heart of recent US Supreme Court decisions, the Fourteenth Amendment was framed to require free speech and free elections in the South.

It’s doubtful even Alexander Hamilton believed what he was selling in “Federalist No. 68.”

The fight over the 150-year old language in the Constitution is a battle for the very heart of the American republic.

Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement marks the end of an era on the Supreme Court—and a turn toward hard-edged partisanship.

A century ago, these documents were used to reinforce segregation. Today, they’re being used to impose binary identities on transgender people.

Scholars disagree on existing precedents—and the question won’t be settled until evidence leads a prosecutor to try it.

Its text and context don’t ensure an unlimited individual right to bear any kind and number of weapons by anyone.

Taking down Confederate monuments helps confront the past, not obscure it.