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Public funding for religious preschools to face First Amendment test
While the current Supreme Court term is heading to a conclusion in the next month, the justices have already accepted cases for…
The next major challenge to the Voting Rights Act
Earlier this week, a decision by the Supreme Court to return two federal appeals cases to the lower courts will likely start…
Constitutional Voices: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A number of aphorisms have enshrined Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in the American constitutional canon and his succinct…
The Supreme Court’s emergency docket steadily draws more attention
Not all of the Supreme Court’s significant actions come in the form of merits case decisions after full briefing and oral…
A busy term for the Supreme Court heads towards a historic conclusion
The Supreme Court is heading into its home stretch with the conclusion of oral arguments for its 2025-2026 term. With many major…
Constitutional Voices: Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner spent nearly a quarter-century in the United States Senate insisting that the federal government had the power and…
Constitutional Voices: Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens was one of the most consequential and uncompromising figures of nineteenth-century American politics. As a…
The Supreme Court’s Callais decision sets new framework for racial gerrymandering
On Wednesday, a divided Supreme Court narrowed the ability of states to use race as a determining factor in creating election…
Looking for unanimity in the Birthright Citizenship decision
On rare occasions, a Supreme Court case raises such fundamental questions about the nature of our nation that it seems to require…
Constitutional Voices: W.E.B. Du Bois
This series of profiles features noteworthy people over the past 250 years who have shaped the American constitutional tradition…
