The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that you have a constitutional right to have a gun in your home. Now, the justices will consider how far outside of the home that right extends.
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A series of Supreme Court cases based on racist language and reasoning still govern the lives of 4 million Americans.
The Supreme Court is a leading player in enacting policy in the US. But it has no army to enforce its decisions; its authority rests solely on its legitimacy.
There is value in observing legal precedent, but sometimes circumstances, logic or judges’ views determine it’s time to overturn it.
It’s easy to make fun of California politics. But a longtime scholar of those politics says the attempt to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom is part of a long-running attempt to hold government accountable.
If you thought slavery in the US was confined to southern states, think again.
New state laws in the US banning teaching about systemic racism raise the question: Does the Constitution protect public school teachers’ right to choose how and what to teach?
Religion was a common theme in some of the cases to come before the nine justices in the recently concluded Supreme Court term. Three experts help explain what is at stake.
A recent federal court ruling appeared to expand Second Amendment rights to private citizen militias, which a historian of early America explains is not what the founders intended.
While many in America are looking to Congress to pass police reform legislation, the federal government has almost no control over state and local police departments.
Rep. Liz Cheney may have been exiled from her party’s leadership, but she’s after a bigger thing: the restoration of politically conservative values in the GOP and its voters.
Many states have found ways to remove partisan politics from their court systems.
The US Census Bureau has announced which states will gain and lose representation in Congress as a result of the 2020 census. Here’s how it makes the calculations.
As GOP-run statehouses across the country tighten voting restrictions, a bill in Congress would, its Democratic sponsors say, undo more than 15 years of moves to make voting harder.
Only one president has done so – Franklin Delano Roosevelt – but others considered it, and even tried.
Conservative justices are redefining religious freedom to mean the protection of individuals or groups to practice their faith as they see fit, argues a constitutional law expert.
The US system was designed with more checks and balances than many other successful democracies – the filibuster’s main function is to give undue power to a vocal minority.
The First Amendment to the US Constitution protects Americans’ freedom of speech, so much so that even the most hateful speech has the right to be quoted.
The vote to acquit former President Trump for inciting the attack on the Capitol is a symptom of the dramatic decline of the US constitutional system, which is being eroded from within.
In the early 19th century, the British – who had invented impeachment centuries before – decided it no longer served its purpose. Instead, they found a more effective way to handle a bad leader.
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell
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Professor Emeritus of Government, Wesleyan University
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Associate Provost and Associate Dean of the Faculty and Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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W. Lee Burge Chair in Law & Ethics; Director, National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor of Government, American University School of Public Affairs
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Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
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Distinguished Fellow in Law and Government, Penn State
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Kinder Institute Assistant Professor of Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Associate Professor of Law and Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Westminster College
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Professor of Law & Walter H. Stowers Chair of Law and Religion, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor of History and Chair, History and Classical Studies, McGill University
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Professor of History, University of New Hampshire
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Professor of Law, IUPUI
