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Defeat the Press: How Donald Trump’s Attacks on News Outlets Undermine the First Amendment
Trump's $16 million lawsuit settlement with Paramount and CBS is the latest example of the president's war to discredit media ...
Push to end birthright citizenship raises legal and social alarms
Efforts to redefine the 14th Amendment could leave thousands of children stateless and trigger constitutional battles.
Opinion
We Need a Constitutional Amendment to Protect U.S. Education
Bob Moses advocated for a constitutional amendment to protect education for all. Now is the time to heed his call.
Federal Judge Takes Control of US Government
Just days after the Supreme Court again made it clear that the separation of powers is sacrosanct, Indira Talwani, an Obama ...
From a bus stop to plaintiffs, California immigrants at forefront of seismic pause on ICE raids
A federal judge’s ruling had its genesis outside a Pasadena donut shop, where masked and armed agents converged.
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From a Pasadena bus stop to plaintiffs, local immigrants at forefront of seismic pause on ICE raids
A federal judge’s ruling ordering a pause on ICE raids in Southern California had its genesis outside a Pasadena donut shop, ...
Why a Trump-Appointed Judge Is Torching His Own Court’s Qualified Immunity Logic—and the Government Abuse It Enables
Judge James C. Ho recently described a troubling phenomenon on the 5th Circuit and the government abuse it enables.
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The 1857 Supreme Court decision that called Black people “unfit to associate with the white race”
Roger Taney was born in 1777 to a wealthy Maryland family that owned slaves. Early in his career, he called slavery a “blot ...
Opinion
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Free speech is under attack in the Trump era. It’s no time to keep quiet.
In this moment of everyone shouting at once all the time, would we be better off if we all just shut up for a day? Then I remember my right to ignore it all. What if we can’t refuse? That's the risk ...