11 Cases Everyone Should Know from the Warren Court
Brown, Bolling, Lee Optical, Cooper, Sherbert, Sullivan, Heart of Atlanta, McClung, Griswold, Loving, and O'Brien
Brown, Bolling, Lee Optical, Cooper, Sherbert, Sullivan, Heart of Atlanta, McClung, Griswold, Loving, and O'Brien
Wickard, Korematsu, and Youngstown
Qualified immunity protects cops from liability for actions that would land ordinary people in jail.
O'Gorman, Stromberg., Nebbia, Schechter Poultry, West Coast Hotel, Jones & Laughlin Steel, Carolene Products, Darby
Buchanan, Hammer, Schenck, Debs, Abrams, Penn. Coal, Adkins, Meyer, Pierce, Gitlow, and Buck
Cruikshank, Strauder, Civil Rights Cases, Yick Wo, Hans, E.C. Knight, Plessy, Champion, Lochner, and Muller
Putting up with some drag-queen storytelling seems like a small price to pay to live in a relatively free society.
Prigg, Dred Scott, Merryman, Dewitt, Hepburn, Knox, Slaughter-House, and Bradwell
Chisholm, Marbury, McCulloch, Gibbons, and Barron
An Interactive Web Site To Explore the 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know
This book and video series teaches the narrative of constitutional law as it has developed over the past two centuries.
The Democratic presidential field is not interested in your puny restraints on the executive branch.
Hopefully the White House can refrain from creating any new constitutional conundrums for a semester.
Going beyond criticism, the resolution would punish the NRA and its supporters by cutting off contractors with ties to the group.
Plus: millennials are buying homes after all, protecting Pinterest from anti-vaxxers, and more...
Conservatives who argue that the video platform is constrained by the First Amendment are forsaking their constitutional principles.
Nick Tomboulides of U.S. Term Limits says the best way to shrink government is to limit how long legislators can serve.
As part of its ambitious “1619” inquiry into the legacy of slavery, The New York Times revives false 19th century revisionist history about the American founding.
The five Democrats warn that the Court may have to be "restructured" if it keeps making decisions they don't like.
The justices would be abdicating their duty to uphold the Constitution if they let such political considerations decide legal issues.
The Democracy for All Amendment aims to mute some voices so that others can be heard.
Plus: Marijuana banking, suing Facebook, and more...
Plus: Behind the bipartisan war on internet speech, New York "decriminalizes" pot (but you'll still get fined), and more...
His border lawlessness keeps growing
The late Supreme Court justice was an inconsistent defender of civil liberties.
An admirable man with a distinguished career as a Supreme Court justice. But also the author of some of the more problematic opinions of his era.
An amendment to this year's military spending bill says the president must go to Congress before launching another war.
Aggressive asset forfeiture collides with First Amendment rights.
It's an unconventional approach befitting of an unconventional presidential candidate.
Severability doctrine & the ACA findings seem to support Judge O'Connor's ruling
An important element of standing has already been decided by the Court
Understanding NFIB v. Sebelius
The Supreme Court has used this doctrine for many years, including in the recent gerrymandering decision. But it still doesn't actually make any sense.
Despite occasional rhetoric to the contrary, neither conservative nor liberal justices are shy about overruling constitutional precedent they believe to be badly misguided. And that's a good thing.
“Our role is to enforce the Takings Clause as written.”
The Trump appointee is not impressed by the logic of the "dual sovereignty" doctrine: "Really?"
Constitutional law is made by a politically constructed institution
Jamelle Bouie's counterintuitive recommendation would effectively eliminate constitutional limits on elected officials, including Trump and every demagogue who follows him.
An awful lot, but who's counting?
More often than you might think
Depends on who you ask.
A new history of how the U,.S. Supreme Court has defined and enforced the limits of congressional power
From today's opinion by Justice Thomas, for the five more conservative members of the Court, in Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt.
"First trimester abortions, which typically require only medication, do not require the onsite presence of a licensed physician."
Following a Reason investigation into Chicago's punitive vehicle impound program, a new lawsuit alleges the practice violates Chicagoans constitutional rights.
Congress should fix its FGM statute—and all the other ones too.
O'Rourke has long been a critic of U.S. intervention abroad.
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