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Austin Sarat, Opinion ContributorThe Hill |
For decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has fought hate. Now the Justice Department wants it to stop
For decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has fought hate. Now the Justice Department wants it to stop
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Tennessee plans to put...
Soon after he took office in 2019, Gov. Mike DeWine imposed a kind of informal moratorium on executions in the Buckeye State. But Ohio’s thoughtful...
Hampshire College’s studen-driven, unorthodox approach to education has roots in the early 1900s and a belief that students should be active,...
The Trump administration wants to undo the reform that put presidential papers in the hands of the public
Presidential records are the public’s property. The Justice Department wants to change that and revert to a time when presidents could do what they...
In 2017, journalist Priscilla Villarreal did what good journalists ordinarily do. She was working on two stories — one about the suicide of a border...
In the last 50 years, the United States has put more than 1,600 people to death. Only 18 of them have been women.
It’s not unusual for presidents to select attorneys general who share their views and policy preferences. But Trump has gone far beyond what is...
On March 19, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D) signed into law a bill to stop ICE officers and other law enforcement officials from wearing masks to...
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No Black defendant in a murder case should be represented by a lawyer affiliated with the KKK without their knowledge and consent
Americans seem to have given up on reading books.
Executing someone in Andre Thomas’s condition would be indecent and inhumane.
Adhering to the rule of law has not been a hallmark of the Justice Department under Donald Trump. Moving to dismiss Bannon’s indictment is just...
Nearly 150 universities and colleges have adopted institutional neutrality pledges since 2023.
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What the Texas Supreme Court decides in this particular case will be enormously consequential in setting a precedent about the scope and limits of...
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It is one thing for a...
Pretti was killed not for what he did but for who he was and what he represented.
Harry Truman's plan would have covered medical, hospital and nursing care for everyone, and created a federal health insurance agency to pay the...
Newspapers and other media outlets will have to decide whether to comply or refuse to fall in line.
The five justices who stopped the Florida recount took a first step toward entrenching Republican control of the federal government.
Rather than assuming that anyone called to testify against a defendant in open court can do so truthfully and effectively, courts should adopt a...
The Supreme Court on Monday will consider the future of independent agencies, hearing oral arguments on President Trump’s bid to fire a Federal...
Donald Trump will say or do anything to bury the legacy of a predecessor he despises: Barack Obama.
Six Democratic lawmakers posted a video reminding members of the military of their obligation not to follow illegal orders. Their act was patriotic,...
This is all bad news for people seeking to end capital punishment in the United States. However, I don’t think that it suggests we are seeing a...
Can you imagine the Roberts court telling Donald Trump that he cannot serve a third term and that he must turn over power? The Court’s record offers...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will hold his ritual daily press briefing on Monday as the House remains out of session on day 27 of the government...
Protest is a legitimate way of giving voice to grievances, not a violent rebellion.
“Citizens by birth or choice,” said the father of our nation, “the name of American … belongs to you.”
It is too bad Justice Brett Kavanaugh is so reluctant to display respect when it counts.
Millions and millions of Americans speak Spanish or have a Spanish accent. If the government can target them, it can profile anyone.
President Trump starts out the week addressing the Religious Liberty Commission, which he established earlier this year. Trump is expected to speak on...
President Trump on Monday morning is scheduled to speak to the White House Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C....
That “hard cases make bad law” is a longstanding maxim among lawyers and judges. It may be time to add to it that celebrity cases often make bad...
That spike may be driven by the political ambitions of Ron DeSantis
The road to the abolition of capital punishment will not be uniform or smooth.
House GOP leaders will hold their weekly press conference Tuesday morning after backlash around the Trump administration's handling of disgraced...
Donald Trump made history on Friday when he became the first president to sue a newspaper for an article that exposed something he did not want...
Death penalty or no death penalty, Thomas used the Ruben Gutierrez case to carry on his crusade of constitutional purification. And it shows the depth...
The courts shouldn’t allow Texas to restrict campus protests that it finds offensive or politically incorrect.
“Always say yes to the president.”
People in the lowest and highest income groups prioritize different issues. Satisfying members of one group may turn off the other.
Religious liberty must be balanced against other values. Not surprisingly, they become the stuff of intense legal and political debate.
On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order announcing a new era of “Unleashing American Energy.” Since then, the White...
Trump is drawing from a familiar playbook, clothing his latest act of election interference with the pretext that he is protecting election...
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