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The Supreme Court Is on the Verge of Expanding Second Amendment Gun Rights
Law professor Darrell Miller forecasts a “radical change” in the law coming from the Court’s conservative justices. → Read More
Could Better Technology Lead to Stronger 4th Amendment Privacy Protections?
Scholar Orin Kerr explores how the reshuffled Supreme Court might rule on surveillance and policing. → Read More
The Supreme Court Giveth and Taketh
By wisely striking down non-unanimous juries but cruelly not aiding the victims of this racist practice, the conservative justices show who they really are. → Read More
No More Pretending: Republicans Admit Vote Restrictions Are All About Winning
As one top GOP lawyer says, allowing for mail ballot or other reforms “puts us at a competitive disadvantage.” → Read More
Bring on the Biden Judges Already
When it comes to confirming federal judges, it’s going to get late early for the Biden administration. → Read More
Are Conspiracy-Minded Cops Fit to Serve?
Why police officers who attended the Stop the Steal rally, even peacefully, have limited rights to stay on the force. → Read More
The Mighty Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The late justice's legacy is a towering monument to liberalism's quest for equal rights. → Read More
Remembering John Lewis
The civil rights hero’s fight against voter suppression goes on, writes Brennan Center Fellow Andrew Cohen. → Read More
Killing in Our Name During a Deadly Pandemic
The Justice Department had no good reason to execute federal prisoners this week, writes Brennan Center Fellow Andrew Cohen. → Read More
Coronavirus nursing home bodies and shackled inmates spark lawsuits — and perhaps justice
We are now seeing the first stirrings of the ways private citizens will use the courts, and the rule of law, to seek answers and accountability. → Read More
After the Trump Impeachment Trial
Acquittal virtually guarantees future presidential abuses of power, writes Brennan Center Fellow Andrew Cohen. → Read More
The Completely Predictable Death of Jeffrey Epstein
If you are shocked by a jail suicide you aren’t paying attention to the grim conditions of incarceration in America. → Read More
When a Bill to Revive Democracy is Called an Ode to Socialism
The Republican response to the For the People Act is ultimately about white supremacy, argues Brennan Center Fellow Andrew Cohen. → Read More
How to Win the Age of Oversight
Lawmakers should avoid grandstanding — and look beyond Russia. → Read More
What Does Sessions' Departure Mean for Criminal Justice?
On bipartisan sentencing reform legislation, policing, marijuana, and much else, there's a chance for progress → Read More
Brett Kavanaugh Should Call for a Public Investigation of the Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Him
Without a full probe, Kavanaugh could, like Justice Thomas, ascend to the Court with a permanent cloud over him → Read More
The Ugly Truth About Police Reform in the Age of Trump
Police know how to ease racial bias and excessive force cases. But some choose not to. → Read More
Judging Larry Nassar
Why Rosemarie Aquilina’s handling of a serial sex abuser’s case was so problematic → Read More
How Social Media Giants Side With Prosecutors in Criminal Cases
Why can’t the defense have access, too?Why can’t the defense have access, too? → Read More
How Alabama Wants To Execute A Terminally Ill Man On Death Row
Doyle Lee Hamm still symbolize much of what's wrong about the state's justice system. → Read More