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Police Questioning of Minors
Everyone knows the iconic phrase “you have the right to remain silent.” It is usually the first thing that police tell someone when taking them into custody, and it makes up one of the several rights –...
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36 Senators Introduce Bill Prohibiting Virtually Any New Law Helping Workers
Washington DC The Capital (Photo credit: Stellas mom) By Ian Millhiser More than three-quarters of the Senate Republican caucus signed onto legislation introduced Wednesday by Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK)...
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5 Terrible Acts of Voter Discrimination the Voting Rights Act Prevented—But...
President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Martin Luther King, Jr. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Lauren Williams President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law 48 years ago today....
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50 Years Later: Whither the Moral Arc of the Universe?
Dr. Martin Luther King giving his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Paul Brandeis Raushenbush In 1853, the controversial abolitionist Theodore Parker preached these...
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We Are This Close to Losing Our Democracy to the Mercenary Class
(Photo credit: 401(K) 2013) By Bill Moyers I met Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in 1987 when I was creating a series for public television called In Search of the Constitution, celebrating the...
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10 Supreme Court Rulings—Before Hobby Lobby—That Turned Corporations Into People
By Alex Park (United States Supreme Court photo credit: Wikipedia) Last week’s Hobby Lobby ruling charted new legal territory by granting corporations the same religious rights as real people. The...
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Voting Rights, by the Numbers
By The Editorial Board of the NY Times When the Supreme Court struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, its main argument was that the law was outdated. Discrimination against minority...
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Rodriguez v. United States: A huge win against police overreach at the...
By Mark Joseph Stern Dennys Rodriguez knew his rights—and he planned to use them. Just after midnight in March of 2012, a police officer pulled Rodriguez over for briefly veering onto the shoulder of...
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The Big Cases At The Supreme Court That You Haven’t Heard About
By Ian Millhiser (United States Supreme Court photo credit: Wikipedia) The Supreme Court heard this term’s final day of oral arguments on Wednesday, a day that included a truly ghoulish debate over how...
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Supreme Court could reshape voting districts, with big impact on Hispanics
By Drew DeSilver Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to take up a Texas case that challenges the way nearly every U.S. voting district – from school boards to Congress – is drawn. The case, in...
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