More speech, the right to be let alone, states as laboratories: four Brandeis separate opinions and the Erie decision he wrote for the Court.
Justice Profile
From the Grandfather Clause to Brnovich: how the Court has read the ban on denying the vote because of race.
Amendment Series
From Bowers in 1986 to Bostock in 2020: how the Court's decisions on sodomy laws, marriage and employment changed.
SCOTUS
From Dartmouth College in 1819 to Citizens United in 2010: charters, commerce, antitrust and political speech.
SCOTUS
From black armbands in 1969 to a Snapchat post in 2021: what Tinker, Fraser, Hazelwood, Morse and Mahanoy decided about student speech.
SCOTUS
The rule religious groups have spent 30 years trying to get the Supreme Court to drop is one that treats everyone the same. Four eras of free exercise cases, and what each one decided.
SCOTUS
From Graham in 1966 to Myriad in 2013: obviousness, living organisms, business methods and isolated genes.
Copyright Law
From Reynolds in 1879 to Lukumi in 1993: belief and action, compelling interests and neutral laws.
Religion
The Court held in 1857 that descendants of enslaved people were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in a territory. Two amendments answered it.
Scholar's Series
Who pays, who decides and who can sue: nine Supreme Court cases on American healthcare, from Roe to Medina.
Healthcare
Presidential eligibility sounds settled. The Supreme Court has spent its time on the edges: who is a citizen at birth, and who can enforce the clause that disqualifies a candidate.
POTUS
A nonpartisan Election Day guide to ten Supreme Court decisions that shape who votes and how, from Dred Scott to Brnovich, updated with the Court's 2025-26 voting cases.
Voting Rights