Since the Founding, Supreme Court justices have enjoyed life tenure. This helps insulate the justices from political pressures, but it also…
In November 2020, two retired colleagues from the State Department, Ambassadors Marc Grossman and Marcie Ries, and I published a…
The topic of judicial diversity is an important one, and it has only increased in public salience in the last decade. As I will discuss in…
Reducing pre-trial detention by eliminating cash bail would generate significant economic returns for accused individuals and likely also…
A great deal of research presents the correspondence between economic conditions and incumbent electoral fortunes as evidence of democratic…
A right of equal access to public goods and services is rooted in the rights to ‘Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’ With these…
The First Amendment guarantees some of the most fundamental rights provided to Americans under the Constitution. The right to free…
Privacy has always been one of the most precarious rights of American life because it lacks clear protections in the U.S. Constitution. The…
The Department of Justice began prosecuting federal hate crimes cases after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Thus, the…
The complicated relationship of religion and government predates the founding of the United States. The Founders grappled with this dilemma…