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A poster depicting black activists holding picket signs above the words register and vote.

The Second ‘Redemption’

The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais deals a fatal blow to the Voting Rights Act, using reasoning that Congress rejected more than 40 years ago.
by David Cole via New York Review of Books
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on May 4, 2026
Illustration of ink baby footprints with a finger pointing "return to sender."

Born in the USA

For the Supreme Court to accept the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke birthright citizenship, it would have to repudiate the Constitution.
by David Cole via New York Review of Books
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on March 31, 2026
Fires raging after Israeli air strikes hit a solar farm in Tyre, Lebanon, on the fifth day of the US–Israeli war with Iran.

The Lie of ‘Preventive’ War

Never has Donald Trump’s willful blindness to legal limits been more evident than in his decision to start a war with Iran.
by David Cole via New York Review of Books
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on March 6, 2026
The L.A. Eight, in 1987.

The Last Time Pro-Palestinian Activists Faced Deportation

Mahmoud Khalil’s case is eerily similar to that of the L.A. Eight when students were targeted not because of any criminal activity but because of their speech.
by David Cole via The New Yorker
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on March 18, 2025
Painting of a person facing another person whose head is made up of sixteen little heads. Untitled (Study) by Geoff McFetridge.

Originalism’s Charade

Two new books make a devastating case against claims that the Constitution should be interpreted on the basis of its purported “original meaning.”
by David Cole via New York Review of Books
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on November 3, 2022
Black and white people sitting at a lunch counter.

When Rights Went Right

Is the American conception of constitutional rights too absolute?
by David Cole via New York Review of Books
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on March 31, 2022

Artificial Persons

The long road to "Citizens United."
by David Cole via The Nation
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on June 6, 2018

How Corrupt Are Our Politics?

A review of Zephyr Teachout's "Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United."
by David Cole via New York Review of Books
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on September 25, 2014
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