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Op-Ed: Dobbs isn't the first time the Supreme Court took away key rights
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Supreme Court's rollback of abortion rights echoes the court's 1883 decision to rule...
Uncivilized disagreements marked 1948 civil service controversy
The Gleaner via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMayor Robert P. Posey was ousted from the chair on seven occasions at the beginning of 1948 as new...
Blow: The Supreme Court as an instrument of oppression
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIf you focus on the Supreme Court’s expansion of equal rights since the 1950s, you could see Samuel...
Asian Americans oppose demolition plans for historic Chinatown building in Detroit
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoFor decades, a building at 3143 Cass Ave., near Peterboro Street in Detroit was a major center for...
Why the Court’s Civil Rights Hero Might Have Opposed Affirmative Action
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDuring a period of intense debate over affirmative action in 1987, Thurgood Marshall, the nation’s first Black Supreme Court justice, was called upon to defend one of his judicial heroes, John ...
The third edition of a rolling list of 200 Tallahassee history makers
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe TLH 200: Gerald Ensley Memorial Bicentennial Project is proud to announce the third installment...
Opinion: How the Supreme Court got things so wrong on Trump ruling
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIn ruling that Donald Trump should stay on the ballot in 2024, the Supreme Court has delivered a...
Will Alito Crown A New 'Great Dissenter'?
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion rights heaps praise on the late Justice Byron ‘Whizzer’ White, who once seemed on the verge of being forgotten.
Justice Henry Billings Brown and reasonableness in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 1 year agoYou will get a debate among legal pundits (I hesitate to call them scholars) on which was more...
The Supreme Court Has Been Engaged in a Rollback of Rights. Abortion Would Just Be the Latest
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe v. Wade was a shock, but the content of...