
Damage Control in the Roberts Era
Progressive activists face an increasingly hostile legal environment. What strategies can they pursue?
Progressive activists face an increasingly hostile legal environment. What strategies can they pursue?
Whichever way Congress might vote on the NSA, the steady creep of our executive branch is unlikely to be reversed.
Mark Tushnet on Ricci v. DeStefano
Is It Time to Amend the Constitution?
Political scientist Peter Irons once wrote a book about people who took their constitutional claims to the Supreme Court. They included Mary Beth Tinker, who successfully challenged her school board’s policy barring her from wearing a black armband to protest …
For the past two decades conservative legal theorists have propagated two right-wing approaches to law. Most public attention has focused on the theory of “original intent” as a guide to interpreting the Constitution. In the law schools, though, the theory …