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Battle for the Constitution: Week of May 17th, 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…
What would RBG think?
It would be difficult for at least some U.S. Supreme Court justices not to think about the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when…
Battle for the Constitution: Week of June 22nd, 2020 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, Justice Frank Murphy was sworn in
On this day, Justice Frank Murphy was sworn in by the clerk of the Court, Charles Elmore Cropley. When the ceremony finished on…
Cross-border shooting case returns to the Supreme Court
A case involving the fatal shooting of a Mexican national by a United States Border Patrol Agent is back at the Supreme Court a…
Hugo Black, unabashed partisan for the Constitution
On August 12, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated then-Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the Supreme Court.
Recalling the Supreme Court’s historic statement on contraception and privacy
It was on this day in 1965 that the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case about contraception use by married couples that laid…
Major rulings on gay and transgender rights coming
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to settle the meaning of a 1964 civil rights law that bans discrimination in the workplace…
The debate over emergency powers and the border wall
President Donald Trump’s statement that he is considering using emergency presidential powers to build a border wall has…
CNN gets temporary due process ruling in Trump case
A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order on Friday allowing CNN reporter Jim Acosta to regain his White House press…
