Their Loved Ones Died to Give Us the Voting Rights Act. They Have a Message for the Supreme Court.
admin Slate spoke with a number of surviving family members of civil rights martyrs. All of them were devastated by the…
John Roberts
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…
The Supreme Court Gave Trump a New Way to Break the Government
The fix to this serious problem is surprisingly simple.
The Supreme Court Isn’t Even Trying to Hide Its Worst Trait Anymore
“There’s a shamelessness to how the court behaved this term.”
Ruling Away From America’s Second Founding
There is one loud lesson to be found in this term’s rulings.