Politics

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.

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

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

Earth in the Judicial Balance Earth in the Judicial Balance

To date, the Rehnquist Court's environmental record has been mixed. While no darling of the greens, neither has it been consistently "brown."

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / James Salzman

Letters Letters

Our readers and Ellen Schrecker and Maurice Isserman on "The Right's Cold War Revision."

Sep 25, 2000 / Our Readers

The Supreme Court Issue The Supreme Court Issue

The Rehnquist Court's paeans of praise for state government are belied by reality.

Sep 25, 2000 / Herman Schwartz

Holy Joe! A Culture War! Holy Joe! A Culture War!

Instead of kissing babies, this year the pols are bashing youth culture and the companies that promote it.

Sep 25, 2000 / The Editors

Up for Grabs Up for Grabs

No matter what the next President or Congress may do or think, among the three branches of the federal government, the Supreme Court is often first among supposed equals.

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Tom Wicker

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