For the past 50 years, the Supreme Court has issued rulings that narrow tribal rights while Congress has worked to expand them. A recent ruling struck yet another blow against Native sovereignty.
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The justices who decided to overturn the abortion rights precedent of Roe v. Wade explained their reasoning, and signaled other precedents could be reversed as well.
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, will it be out of step with America?
There is value in observing legal precedent, but sometimes circumstances, logic or judges’ views determine it’s time to overturn it.
Many states have found ways to remove partisan politics from their court systems.
The US Supreme Court is often less insulated from partisan politics than many Americans assume.
Many Supreme Court nomination battles depended on whether the president’s party also had control of the US Senate.
A 6-3 conservative court will hear a broader range of controversial cases, shift interpretations of individual rights and put more pressure on local democracy to make policy decisions.
With a new vacancy on the US Supreme Court, Donald Trump has the opportunity to alter the court’s direction for decades. He’s not the first.
Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court as a conservative. But his ruling in a major civil rights case is part of a pattern of justices setting aside ideology to address historic injustices.
The US Supreme Court has ruled that the Civil Rights Act applies to LGBT people. A business law scholar explains why this is one of the most consequential discrimination cases in decades.
In a national survey, transgender individuals had worse employment outcomes, lower incomes and higher rates of poverty than cisgender people.
Federal law now protects lesbians, gay men and transgender people from being fired or otherwise discriminated against at work. But there are more questions and court cases to come about their rights.
Was a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the Supreme Court by five Democratic senators a legal argument – or a political threat?
Many were confident the US Constitution was robust enough to check Donald Trump’s worst excesses, but the real push back has come from elsewhere.
With Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, many predict that the court will move to the right on issues from abortion to gun rights. But Supreme Court rulings are often not the last word on a matter.
Many states are also eroding a woman’s right to access abortions.
With Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, President Trump will appoint a second justice to the Supreme Court. Will his nominees be impartial if Trump ends up in the court because of the Russia probe?
The court narrowly ruled that employees who sign arbitration agreements can’t bring class action suits over unpaid wages.
Donald Trump is far from the first president to politicise the judiciary, but the way he’s going about it is uniquely dangerous.
Principales colaboradores
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Associate Professor of American History and Politics, University of East Anglia
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Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
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Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Law, University of Minnesota; Professor of Political Science, Hamline University
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Reader in US History, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Public Affairs and Law, American University School of Public Affairs
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Lecturer in Law, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Georgia
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University of Georgia
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Georgia
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Professor of Law, Director of the Center for Religion, Law & Democracy, Willamette University
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Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Oregon
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Professor of Political Science, UMass Lowell
