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A busy term for the Supreme Court heads towards a historic conclusion
The Supreme Court is heading into its home stretch with the conclusion of oral arguments for its 2025-2026 term. With many major decisions due and three big cases already decided, all eyes will be on the nine justices as decisions are released through late June (and possibly early July).
Constitutional Voices: Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner spent nearly a quarter-century in the United States Senate insisting that the federal government had the power and the moral obligation to abolish…
Constitutional Voices: Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens was one of the most consequential and uncompromising figures of nineteenth-century American politics. As a Radical Republican congressman from…
The Supreme Court’s Callais decision sets new framework for racial gerrymandering
On Wednesday, a divided Supreme Court narrowed the ability of states to use race as a determining factor in creating election districts, in a decision with…
Constitutional Voices: John Marshall
Chief Justice John Marshall, in the words of longtime friend and colleague Justice Joseph Story, was "the expounder of the Constitution."
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