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Jamelle Bouie
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A Justice in Trouble
Remembering a low moment for the high court.
Harlan Crow Is Not a Nazi, but That’s Beside the Point
Clarence Thomas’s benefactor and his allies have a lot of explaining to do.
When Friends in High Places Sit on the Supreme Court
This is not how a republic should work.
The Founders Were More Creative Than You Think
We shouldn’t have a cramped view of how the Framers reasoned.
The Relentless Attack on Trans People Is an Attack on All of Us
To deny equal respect and dignity to any part of the citizenry is to place the entire country on the road to tiered citizenship and…
The Supreme Court Is Turning Into a Court of First Resort
The Roberts Court and its conservative majority is consolidating its power at your expense.
The Case for Supreme Court Term Limits Just Got a Lot Better
That’s one way to keep “an inconvenient aristocracy of entrenched officials” from forming.
There Is a Way to Break Out of Our Constitutional Stagnation
States are turning back into “laboratories of democracy.”
This Is How to Put the Supreme Court in Its Place
Democrats in the 21st Century should not make the same mistake Republicans in the 19th Century did.
This Is What Happens When Election Deniers Let Their Freak Flag Fly
The 2020-was-rigged crowd has ambitious plans.