Society

Color and the Court Color and the Court

The project of racial reconciliation and historical correction is "constitutional" in the deepest, multiple senses of that word.

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Christopher Edley Jr.

Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do… Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do…

Christina Hoff Summers is hot with righteous indignation on boys' behalf.

Sep 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Mark Edmundson

For Some, Choice Gets Harder For Some, Choice Gets Harder

Right now, there are three votes on the Court to get rid of Roe altogether and often four or five to impose costly, chilling and burdensome regulations on the exercise of...

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Susan Estrich

Moral Law, Changing Morals Moral Law, Changing Morals

A recent decision reminds us that true equality for gay people will arrive only when the Supreme Court is not controlled by Justices whose moral view of gay people is negative.

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Chai R. Feldblum

In Business We Trust In Business We Trust

The Supreme Court once championed antitrust laws as valued tools to limit corporate power and to promote the autonomy, diversity and economic rights of people and firms without pow...

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Eleanor Fox

Chase’s Historical Ledger Chase’s Historical Ledger

Chase should immediately open its archives to slavery researchers.

Sep 25, 2000 / John S. Friedman

No Love Lost for Labor No Love Lost for Labor

Right now, what hurts labor, day to day, is the wins and losses in the lower courts.

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Thomas Geoghegan

Putting a Radical Right Team on the Bench Putting a Radical Right Team on the Bench

The future of the Supreme Court is the most important issue in the most important election year since 1932. Progressive Americans should treat it that way. The radical right does. ...

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Ralph G. Neas

First Amendment for the Rich? First Amendment for the Rich?

At stake is whether the twenty-first-century First Amendment will be a protector of the powerful or a resource for the weak and disfranchised.

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Burt Neuborne

Is the Wall Crumbling? Is the Wall Crumbling?

The current Supreme Court is so divided on fundamental questions of separation of church and state. that the appointment of one or two conservative Justices could well tip the bala...

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Norman Redlich

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