Since last week, when Alabama joined several other states — Georgia, Mississippi, and Ohio among them — in passing a…
So. When the U.S. Supreme Court numbered abortion among our precious constitutional rights, we expected everlasting bliss? Anything but the…
Kansas adopted its constitution in 1859. Abortion was largely illegal then, as it was in most of the country. Who…
As Senator Richard Blumenthal complained of Republicans violating Senate “norms” in conducting the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings on Tuesday, his…
What’s the point, really? Beyond political theater, that is. The Kavanaugh smearing — I mean, for political science purposes, hearing…
President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh bids fair to push the Supreme Court away from “penumbras” and other confabulations that…
There was a time in American history when people did not look to the Supreme Court to decide the legality…
“Frankly,” said Ruth Bader Ginsburg in July 2009, “I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern…
Since Amy Coney Barrett appeared on President Trump’s shortlist of potential replacements for Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court,…
