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What’s at stake when Americans lose faith in the legitimacy of the Supreme Court?
Americans voters are angry about everything from abortion to inflation. While anger is good for voter turnout, it’s ultimately bad for solving problems in a democracy.
Most of the election-related lawsuits now before state courts focus on fine details of election procedures. This can be a costly, time-consuming process for state courts.
Is it unfair to make money from works that borrow from copyrighted work?
‘America’s finest news source’ The Onion wants the US Supreme Court to answer some difficult questions: is satire protected speech, and if so, how do we define it?
Pork producers are challenging a California law that animal welfare advocates call the most important measure for farm animal protection in decades.
Black conservative Clarence Thomas’ improbable rise as a powerful US Supreme Court justice today was unimaginable during his controversial confirmation hearings in 1991.
Affirmative action, discrimination against LGBTQ people and election laws are some of the hot-button issues that the Supreme Court will tackle this fall.
Major Supreme Court decisions and reversals last term are leaving some people, including this scholar on constitutional politics, wondering – what’s going on with the court?
The Supreme Court opens its 2022-2023 session with a high-profile case that has major implications for both wildlife and landowners.
303 Creative v. Elenis gives SCOTUS another chance to set precedent about what happens when First Amendment freedoms come at a cost to civil rights.
The women’s rights movement in the 1800s did not openly support legalizing abortion or birth control. But the reasons why are complex.
As long as the justice system relies on only retaining people who can afford to progress within the legal profession, racial and gender inequality will persist within its ranks.
In 1972, justices handed down a decision that attacked discriminatory and capricious death sentences. But it left the door ajar for states to continue the practice.
With two months to go until the US mid-terms, President Joe Biden has seen a significant lift in his approval ratings.
The fall of Roe v. Wade will result in more people deciding to privately end a pregnancy, a new study finds. But how often people will turn to safe versus unsafe options remains to be seen.
For many who must travel to get an abortion, the financial burden of the trip can be overwhelming.
The U.S. Supreme Court turned its back on America’s core constitutional ideals — liberty and equality— when it erroneously ruled women have no constitutional right to abortion.
Why do government policies sometimes fail to reflect the public will? The answer begins with the design of the US government system, forged in the 18th century.
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Dean of Economics, Politics & History, The University of Austin
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Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor of American History and Politics, University of East Anglia
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Professor of Law, University of Richmond
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Professor of Law, George Washington University
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