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Slavery Outlived the Civil War. How It Actually Ended Will Surprise You.
Turner was one of many Black parents whose demands for their children’s freedom defined the scope of the 13th Amendment’s…
Their Loved Ones Died to Give Us the Voting Rights Act. They Have a Message for the Supreme Court.
Slate spoke with a number of surviving family members of civil rights martyrs. All of them were devastated by the…
We Faced Down Trump’s Secret Police in Minneapolis. Here’s How We Did It.
“Terrible things are happening outside. Families are torn apart; men, women, and children are separated.”
Two Liberal Judges Just Gave the Supreme Court Cover to Legalize Assault Weapons
For years, state bans on assault rifles and large-capacity magazines enjoyed an unbroken winning streak throughout the nation’s federal courts…
The Supreme Court’s Biggest Case of the Term Shows Popular Constitutionalism in Action
The birthright citizenship case the Supreme Court just decided demonstrates how deep-rooted this practice is.
The Supreme Court Has Gone Off the Rails. There’s Actually a Fix. We Just Have to Go Through With It.
We bring you this series on popular constitutionalism—local, organic farm-to-table making of legal meaning—as a thought experiment.
Taking Back Your Democracy for Dummies
First, practice distinguishing between what the Constitution says and what judges and justices say about the Constitution.
How the Supreme Court Swiped the Constitution From We the People
This project was decades in the making.
One Judge Has the Guts to Put the Horror of This Supreme Court Term in Context
The Supreme Court has veered so far off track that even the harshest language can feel inadequate to capture the…