Vol. 134 No. 7 On June 17, 2020, Philonise Floyd addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council, the United Nations’ paramount human rights body, demanding justice for the...
Vol. 134 No. 1 Introduction In the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, financial institutions targeted communities of color with expensive and risky subprime mortgage products....
Vol. 134 No. 1 Introduction The academic indictment of textualism was almost in. Although textualism has in recent decades gained considerable prominence within the federal judiciary, legal scholars...
Vol. 134 No. 1 Judges have to have the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent . . . . — Then-Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. [Stare...
Vol. 133 No. 1 Congress fundamentally changed the punishment of federal crimes in the 1980s and almost entirely for the worse. The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984...
Vol. 133 No. 1 Congress is supposed to write laws. So much seems apparent from the constitutional design, which in no uncertain terms vests “[a]ll legislative Powers herein...
Vol. 132 No. 1 Sometimes the government compels people to pay money to organizations they oppose. A lawyer may be forced to fund a bar association, a college...
Vol. 132 No. 1 On May 24, 1844, a crowd gathered inside the United States Supreme Court chambers in the basement of the Capitol, eagerly awaiting a demonstration...
Vol. 132 No. 1 There is a difference between deciding how to talk about a problem and sorting out the principles for resolving it. In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd....
Vol. 132 No. 1 In Gill v. Whitford, the Supreme Court turned aside the most promising vehicle for adjudicating partisan gerrymandering claims since the Court first fully addressed...