Justice

The Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is just one battle in the right's larger war on the Second Founding.

Early Supreme Court justices were openly political, shaping laws and campaigns, with Dred Scott revealing the Court's limited authority.

How did we forget the man who coined ‘We the People’?

Black radicals read the Declaration of Independence.

A review of Joseph Ellis's reassessment of the Founding, arguing that slavery and Indigenous dispossession were central contradictions of 1776.

The jazz legend fought for nearly 80 years to clear his father of racially motivated charges.

The effort to transform the United States’ founding document into a vehicle for egalitarian politics.

The most consequential sentence of the Supreme Court’s 2026 unsigned shadow docket decision in Allen v. Milligan is wrong.

To fight against slavery, the author collected true stories then picked up a pen and distilled them into “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”

The John Birch Society, the Anti-Defamation League, and the American tradition of infiltrating and exposing radical organizations.

Violent relations between the British and Indigenous tribes promoted unrest in the colonies and laid the groundwork for the American Revolution.

Families turned to habeas corpus to recover enlisted sons, forcing a constitutional showdown over military power.

The historical anti-Black crusade of law enforcement and the white cultural establishment.

Relatives of voting-rights activists warn that the recent Callais v. Louisiana decision risks undoing hard-fought civil-rights victories.

Story of Bernie Goetz subway shooting and NYC 1980s fear, racial tension, vigilante justice legacy, and ongoing debate over crime and justice.

At a time of rising Stalinist antisemitism, Paul Robeson’s act of solidarity made clear his stand against any form of racism.

The supercharged bad faith of “constitutional originalism” threatens everything we hold dear.

What history can teach us about where the anti-imperialist left should go now.

How a landmark immigration law paved the way for Trump’s crackdown on immigrant families.

Today's alliance between capitalists, the state, and fascist movements, mobilized against immigrants and workers' movements, echoes the 1910s.

A high court doctrine of 'animus' on the ropes.

In destroying the Voting Rights Act, the justices echo the court’s darkest and most racist days.

A court in Pennsylvania gets it right, and the Fifth Circuit gets it wrong.

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.

Kimberlé Crenshaw gave us the terms “intersectionality” and “critical race theory.” Her new memoir shows that she isn’t done fighting over what they mean.

Get ready for new fights over racist gerrymandering.

Tactical excellence without a strategic understanding is a recipe for failure.

The federal court suffers simultaneously from lawless leadership and chronic understaffing. Let's fix both problems at once.

A look at how the Fourteenth Amendment supports birthright citizenship and challenges efforts to limit it using “allegiance” or immigration status.

How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism.