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76. When Does a Religion Case Belong to the Free Exercise Clause—or the Establishment Clause?
The Supreme Court’s Conversion Therapy Case Isn’t About Religion
75. When the Constitution Bends (and When It Hardens)
Reading January 6 Through the First Amendment
74. The Jurisprudence of Instructional Violence, pt. 2
73. The Jurisprudence of Instructional Violence, pt. 1
72. From Brandenburg to Claiborne
71. The Birth of “Clear and Present Danger”
The Flag, the Fire, and the Freedom It Represents
70. The Golden Shield of Free Speech
69. Critiquing the critical theories, pt. 2
68. Critiquing the critical theories, pt. 1
67. When Freedom Becomes a Trap
64. Four Ways of Seeing Free Speech
60. The Beer Case That Changed Everything
59. RBG Picked the Perfect First Fight
58. Where Is Gender Equality in the Constitution?
56. Why Was Affirmative Action Back Before the Court So Soon?
55. Who’s Really Harmed by Affirmative Action?
54. What Kind of Diversity Does the Constitution Support? (Pt. 3)
53. What Kind of Diversity Does the Constitution Support? (Pt. 2)
52. What Kind of Diversity Does the Constitution Support? (Pt. 1)
51. Twenty Points and the Weight of History
49. Affirmative Action Outside the Classroom
48. How Strict Should Courts Be?
47. Affirmative Action: The Case That Started It All
46. RECAP: When the Rules Look Fair—But the Results Don’t
45. Proving Intent, Seeing Impact
41. RECAP: The Fork in the Fourteenth Amendment
40. Can the Government Ever Classify by Race?
39. Eliminating Other Vestiges of Segregation
38. The Retreat from Desegregation
37. Was Brown About Belonging—or Results?
36. The Long Road to Integration
Back to School, Without Affirmative Action
35. The Two Meanings of Brown v. Board
32. Crisis, Coercion, and Constitutional Meaning
31. What Happens to a Clause Deferred?
TikToks, Tradwives, and a Constitution That Doesn’t Say Women Are Equal
30. What If the Court Had Ruled Differently?
29. Why Obergefell Doesn’t Lead to Polygamy
The Unwritten Constitution Under Attack
27. When Liberty and Equality Meet at the Altar
26. The Tiered World of Equal Protection
24. What If DOMA Had Been About Something Other Than Marriage?
23. The Case That Split the Middle
22. Liberty, Equality, and the Thread That Ties Them Together
18. The Right That Opens the Door
When Inclusion Isn’t Instruction
17. The Time Machine Constitution
16. When the Court Says Your Life Planning Doesn't Matter
15. The Day Constitutional Law Changed
12. The Woman Who Wouldn’t Be Named
11. The Ninth Amendment: A Hidden Key?
Will the First Amendment Work Both Ways?
10. The Woman Who Opened Pandora’s Box
The Supreme Court Is In Uncharted Territory
8. The Footnote That Refuses to Stay a Footnote
7. The Footnote That Changed Everything
5. The Constitutional Bake-Off
How the St. Isidore Stalemate Let the Education Wars Drift On
4. Rewriting Dred Scott: How Four Words Changed America
3. When the Supreme Court Makes Everything Worse
2. When States Could Do Whatever They Wanted