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Our Constitution Is Not Colorblind
The most consequential sentence of the Supreme Court’s 2026 unsigned shadow docket decision in Allen v. Milligan is wrong.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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June 9, 2026
The Two Section Twos
The protection against racial gerrymandering in Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is constitutional. Just read Section 2 of the 14th Amendment.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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October 15, 2025
Masked Terror
ICE officers are wearing masks to conceal their identities. The Ku Klux Klan also employed masks to avoid prosecution for its acts of racial violence.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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June 24, 2025
Trump's Attack on Lawyers and Law Firms Takes a Page Out of the Southern 1950s Playbook
American authoritarians fear the uniquely American power of litigation.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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March 24, 2025
How America Ends and Begins Again
Because so much of what we have come to expect of our country is unraveling, we have an opportunity to build it anew.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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New York Review of Books
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November 30, 2023