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Battle for the Constitution: Week of May 17th, 2021 Roundup

by NCC Staff

Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution, a special project on the constitutional debates in American…

Battle for the Constitution: Week of May 17th, 2021 Roundup
What would RBG think?

by Marcia Coyle

It would be difficult for at least some U.S. Supreme Court justices not to think about the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when…

What would RBG think?
Battle for the Constitution: Week of June 22nd, 2020 Roundup

by NCC Staff

Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American…

Battle for the Constitution: Week of June 22nd, 2020 Roundup
On this day, Justice Frank Murphy was sworn in

by Nicholas Mosvick

On this day, Justice Frank Murphy was sworn in by the clerk of the Court, Charles Elmore Cropley. When the ceremony finished on…

On this day, Justice Frank Murphy was sworn in
Cross-border shooting case returns to the Supreme Court

by Robert Black

A case involving the fatal shooting of a Mexican national by a United States Border Patrol Agent is back at the Supreme Court a…

Cross-border shooting case returns to the Supreme Court
Hugo Black, unabashed partisan for the Constitution

by Nicandro Iannacci

On August 12, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated then-Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the Supreme Court.

Hugo Black, unabashed partisan for the Constitution
Recalling the Supreme Court’s historic statement on contraception and privacy

by Nicandro Iannacci

It was on this day in 1965 that the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case about contraception use by married couples that laid…

Recalling the Supreme Court’s historic statement on contraception and privacy
Major rulings on gay and transgender rights coming

by Lyle Denniston

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to settle the meaning of a 1964 civil rights law that bans discrimination in the workplace…

Major rulings on gay and transgender rights coming
The debate over emergency powers and the border wall

by Scott Bomboy

President Donald Trump’s statement that he is considering using emergency presidential powers to build a border wall has…

The debate over emergency powers and the border wall
CNN gets temporary due process ruling in Trump case

by Scott Bomboy

A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order on Friday allowing CNN reporter Jim Acosta to regain his White House press…

CNN gets temporary due process ruling in Trump case
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