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56. Why Was Affirmative Action Back Before the Court So Soon?
Texas’s Top 10% Plan
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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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56. Why Was Affirmative Action Back Before the Court So Soon?
Texas’s Top 10% Plan
9 hrs ago • 
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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…
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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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49. Affirmative Action Outside the Classroom
What happens at work and in contracts
Sep 26 • 
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Equal Protection: Other Classifications

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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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Religion Clauses: Free Exercise & Establishment

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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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