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76. When Does a Religion Case Belong to the Free Exercise Clause—or the Establishment Clause?
And why the answer shapes everything from school vouchers to yoga in gym class.
Dec 1
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SIDEBAR: The Supreme Court’s Conversion Therapy Case Isn’t About Religion
And that's exactly why it matters
Nov 21
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75. When the Constitution Bends (and When It Hardens)
What the Free Exercise rollercoaster tells us about America today
Nov 20
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SIDEBAR: The double helix of dignity
Jul 10
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SIDEBAR: The Unwritten Constitution Under Attack
Jul 28
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44. How the Law Sees Race
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SIDEBAR: The Disappearing Middle
Jun 27
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Course Outline
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25. Two Faces of Dignity
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Introduction and Fundamental Rights
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SIDEBAR: The Unwritten Constitution Under Attack
Why America's informal rules matter more than ever
Jul 28
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14. The Shape-Shifting Shield
How “dignity” became constitutional law’s Swiss Army knife
Jun 22
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13. The Cracked Foundation
How Planned Parenthood v. Casey tried to save Roe by weakening it
Jun 20
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12. The Woman Who Wouldn’t Be Named
How Jane Roe built a house of privacy that’s been under siege ever since
Jun 18
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11. The Ninth Amendment: A Hidden Key?
How an overlooked clause helped unlock modern constitutional rights
Jun 16
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10. The Woman Who Opened Pandora’s Box
And why we’re still arguing about shadows sixty years later
Jun 12
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SIDEBAR: The Supreme Court Is In Uncharted Territory
Previous administrations may not have liked court rulings, but there was never a question about whether they would comply
Jun 10
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9. The Road to Privacy
How a German teacher, a nun, a “feeble-minded” girl, and a chicken thief laid the groundwork for a right the Constitution never named
Jun 9
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Modern Substantive Due Process
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29. Why Obergefell Doesn’t Lead to Polygamy
—and why that matters for constitutional debate
Aug 4
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28. After the Wedding Cake
What comes next for the Obergefell principle
Jul 30
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27. When Liberty and Equality Meet at the Altar
The constitutional architecture of Obergefell v. Hodges
Jul 28
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26. The Tiered World of Equal Protection
On sexual orientation and suspect classifications
Jul 25
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25. Two Faces of Dignity
Lawrence, Windsor, and the constitutional self
Jul 23
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24. What If DOMA Had Been About Something Other Than Marriage?
Why Windsor’s reasoning might not have worked in a different legal context
Jul 21
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23. The Case That Split the Middle
Windsor and the Court’s compromise on marriage equality
Jul 18
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22. Liberty, Equality, and the Thread That Ties Them Together
Dignity as a double helix
Jul 16
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Equal Protection: Race
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57. The Day the Rules Changed
From Fisher to Students for Fair Admissions
Oct 6
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56. Why Was Affirmative Action Back Before the Court So Soon?
Texas’s Top 10% Plan
Oct 3
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55. Who’s Really Harmed by Affirmative Action?
When the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions in Students for Fair Admissions, the news cycle was full of headlines: “Asian American…
Oct 3
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54. What Kind of Diversity Does the Constitution Support? (Pt. 3)
Part 3: Between Individuals and Groups—The Constitutional Balancing Act
Oct 2
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53. What Kind of Diversity Does the Constitution Support? (Pt. 2)
Part 2: Diversity for whom? The paradox of pragmatism
Oct 2
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52. What Kind of Diversity Does the Constitution Support? (Pt. 1)
Part 1: From the classroom to the courtroom
Oct 2
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51. Twenty Points and the Weight of History
On Gratz v. Bollinger
Oct 2
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50. The Grutter Decision
When the Court endorsed diversity
Sep 29
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Equal Protection: Other Classifications
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63. Who Gets to Judge?
The jury box, gender, and the fight for a fair trial
Oct 14
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62. Who Gets to Lead?
When Ginsburg raised the bar for gender equality
Oct 14
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61. Men Can Care, Too
The nursing school case that cut through gender stereotypes
Oct 12
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60. The Beer Case That Changed Everything
A boy, a beer, and the birth of intermediate scrutiny
Oct 10
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59. RBG Picked the Perfect First Fight
How gender equality found its footing in constitutional law
Oct 8
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58. Where Is Gender Equality in the Constitution?
From silence to a century-long fight
Oct 7
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SIDEBAR: TikToks, Tradwives, and a Constitution That Doesn’t Say Women Are Equal
Do we still need the Equal Rights Amendment?
Aug 7
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Free Speech: Foundations
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SIDEBAR: The Supreme Court’s Conversion Therapy Case Isn’t About Religion
And that's exactly why it matters
Nov 21
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SIDEBAR: Reading January 6 Through the First Amendment
The day words turned into action
Nov 3
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74. The Jurisprudence of Instructional Violence, pt. 2
From the Hit Man Manual to Christchurch
Oct 31
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73. The Jurisprudence of Instructional Violence, pt. 1
On Rice v. Paladin
Oct 30
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72. From Brandenburg to Claiborne
When passion meets the First Amendment
Oct 30
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71. The Birth of “Clear and Present Danger”
How Holmes and Hand drew the first lines between speech and action
Oct 28
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SIDEBAR: The Flag, the Fire, and the Freedom It Represents
On the flag-burning EO
Oct 28
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70. The Golden Shield of Free Speech
From bright lines to balancing acts
Oct 27
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Religion Clauses: Free Exercise & Establishment
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76. When Does a Religion Case Belong to the Free Exercise Clause—or the Establishment Clause?
And why the answer shapes everything from school vouchers to yoga in gym class.
Dec 1
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75. When the Constitution Bends (and When It Hardens)
What the Free Exercise rollercoaster tells us about America today
Nov 20
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SIDEBAR: The double helix of dignity
Liberty, equality, and the future of religious freedom
Jul 10
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SIDEBAR: From Muhammad to Mahmoud
What a religious image can teach us about constitutional boundaries
Jul 7
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SIDEBAR: When Inclusion Isn’t Instruction
The next hard question after Mahmoud v. Taylor
Jun 30
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SIDEBAR: The Disappearing Middle
Mahmoud v. Taylor and the quiet collapse of pluralism
Jun 27
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SIDEBAR: Will the First Amendment Work Both Ways?
What Mahmoud v. Taylor could mean for culture war opt-outs
Jun 13
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SIDEBAR: How the St. Isidore Stalemate Let the Education Wars Drift On
The Supreme Court has avoided a hard decision, but only for now
May 26
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