Slavery Outlived the Civil War. How It Actually Ended Will Surprise You.
admin Turner was one of many Black parents whose demands for their children’s freedom defined the scope of the 13th Amendment’s…
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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…
Minneapolis Just Showed the Entire Country How to Take the Constitution Back
The surge made public safety a daily practice for many residents. None of it sounded like law in a traditional…
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.”
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.