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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 arguments next fall, including an important case on the First Amendment and religious rights.
Constitutional Voices: Phillis Wheatley
Throughout her life, poet Phillis Wheatley intersected with several of the nation’s Founding Fathers. Today, her work’s impact is being debated as it was…
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 another significant challenge to the…
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 writing continues to make its way…
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 argument. In recent years, orders of…
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