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Article III
The double-edge sword of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday began a new and potentially controversial term under the shadow of justices’ concerns about the…
Fascinating facts about Supreme Court justices
The Supreme Court is an institution long revered for its integrity, legal prowess, and robust constitutional scholarship and…
How the Supreme Court created agency deference
On this day in 1984, the Supreme Court decided Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council, which created the doctrine that…
Battle for the Constitution: Week of June 14th, 2021 Roundup
Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American…
On this day: Supreme Court rejects race-based marriage laws
On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court issued its Loving v. Virginia decision, which struck down laws that banned marriages between…
Battle for the Constitution: Week of April 26th, 2021 Roundup
Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American…
In the U.S. Supreme Court, one more fight to change a losing battle
Some issues return in cases to the U.S. Supreme Court year after year in hopes that the timing is right for review by the…
The 11th Amendment: Correcting the Supreme Court in action
The Constitution’s first amendment after the Bill of Rights represented the first use of congressional power to contradict a…
What Will Justice Breyer Do?
By the end of the current U.S. Supreme Court term or shortly afterward, a justice will retire, predict some court scholars and…
Why Texas’s election suit failed to reach first base in the Supreme Court
The Constitution gives the U.S. Supreme Court a special type of jurisdiction over cases “in which a State shall be Party.” So…
