Gideon’s Trumpet: Toward Equality in Criminal Justice
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), entrenched in American folklore by a best-selling book and a popular film, was one of the most famous...
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Aug 22, 20224 min read
Loving v. Virginia: Equal Means Equal
In a blockbuster, landmark ruling that rolled back the tides of racism and White Supremacy, the Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia...
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Jul 29, 20224 min read
“Like a Loaded Weapon”: The Korematsu Ruling as a Threat
The Supreme Court’s decision in Korematsu v. United States (1944), upholding the forced evacuation of American citizens of Japanese...
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Jul 19, 20224 min read
Korematsu: A Heart-Breaking Landmark Decision
The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Korematsu v. United States (1944), upheld a government program that required the exclusion of...
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Jul 14, 20224 min read
Constitutional Principles for the Ages: McCulloch for Maryland
Chief Justice John Marshall’s landmark opinion for the Supreme Court in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), articulated foundational principles...
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Jul 7, 20224 min read
McCulloch: Shaping the Future of American Constitutional Law
The constitutional issues that the Supreme Court addressed –and answered—in the landmark case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), have...
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Jul 5, 20224 min read
McCulloch v. Maryland: The Greatest of Landmark Decisions
The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), widely regarded by scholars as the most important decision ever...
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Jun 22, 20224 min read
Constitutional Responses to Emergencies
The Steel Seizure Case (1952) raised the critical issue of the constitutional prescription for confronting emergencies. President Harry...
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Jun 22, 20223 min read
Emergencies and the Constitution: Retroactive Ratification
The Supreme Court’s rejection in the Steel Seizure Case of President Harry Truman’s assertion of an inherent executive power to seize the...
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Jun 9, 20224 min read
Supreme Court Rebukes Truman’s Seizure of Steel Mills
In his 6-3 opinion for the Supreme Court in the landmark case, Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952), Justice Hugo Black rejected...
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Jun 6, 20224 min read
Steel Seizure Case Ruling Reins in Presidential Power
Fifty-five years ago, on June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the landmark case of Loving v. Virginia, struck down in the name of...
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May 31, 20224 min read
Loving: The Supreme Court Upholds Interracial Marriage
Fifty-five years ago, on June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the landmark case of Loving v. Virginia, struck down in the name of...
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May 17, 20224 min read
Saluting the Flag: A Matter of Speech and Religious Liberty
It is fair to say that the government’s preeminent responsibility is to provide for the nation’s defense. When necessary, civil liberties...
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May 17, 20224 min read
Supreme Court: A Right to Refuse to Salute the Flag?
In 1940, in Minersville v. Gobitis, the Supreme Court upheld a state law requiring school children to salute the flag, despite religious...
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May 4, 20224 min read
Supreme Court: State Actors May Not Lead School Prayer
In 1962, in Engel v. Vitale, the U.S. Supreme Court, in one of the most controversial decisions of the Warren Court era, held school-led...
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May 4, 20224 min read
The Supreme Court and Religion: Entering the Maze
The U.S. Supreme Court’s first major ruling on the meaning of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause was in Everson v. Board of...
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Apr 21, 20224 min read
Brown and Racial Equality in Public Education
In his unanimous opinion for the Supreme Court in the watershed case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Chief Justice Earl Warren...
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Apr 19, 20224 min read
The Brown Decision and America’s Commitment to Equality
“If it was not the most important decision in the history of the Court,” Justice Stanley Reed observed of Brown v. Board of Education,...
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Apr 7, 20224 min read
Earl Warren: Finding “The Notion of Equality”
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s recess appointment of Earl Warren to the Chief Justiceship of Supreme Court on September 30, 1953,...
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Apr 6, 20224 min read
The Brown Decision: Twists and Turns Shape the Constitution
The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the most-celebrated civil rights decision in our nation’s...
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