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Joan Biskupic on "Nine Black Robes"
Last year's Supreme Court term was one of the most significant in recent history with landmark decisions and cases about abortion, guns, religious li…
3 years, 1 month ago
What are “True Threats” Under the First Amendment?
Last week, the Supreme Court heard a case about a Colorado man, Billy Ray Counterman, who was sentenced to over four years in prison for stalking due…
3 years, 2 months ago
Should We Break Up With the Founders?
Earlier this year, the National Constitution Center hosted an event in Miami, Florida, featuring a series of meaningful conversations about the Const…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Legality of Abortion Pills
Last Friday, judges in Texas and Washington state handed down conflicting decisions on the legality of abortion medication pills. In Texas, a distric…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Indictment of Former President Trump
Earlier this week, on Tuesday, April 4, former President Donald Trump was indicted in a Manhattan court on 34 felony counts of falsifying business re…
3 years, 2 months ago
Israel’s Constitutional Crisis
In January 2023, the Israeli government under newly re-elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a series of legal reforms that set off a wa…
3 years, 3 months ago
Can Courts End Partisan Gerrymandering?
Last week, the North Carolina Supreme Court agreed to re-hear a case that found the state’s redistricting maps unconstitutional under the state’s con…
3 years, 3 months ago
Domestic Violence Laws and Gun Rights
Earlier this month, in United States v. Rahimi, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit struck down as unconstitutional a decades-old law bar…
3 years, 3 months ago
Women’s Rights in Early America
March is women’s history month—and in commemoration of the celebration, this week we hosted a conversation exploring the story of the pursuit of wome…
3 years, 3 months ago
Presidential Power, Standing, and Student Loan Forgiveness
This week the Supreme Court heard two separate legal challenges to a student loan forgiveness program proposed by the Biden administration: Biden v. …
3 years, 4 months ago