Alabama’s Primary Drew 5 Percent Turnout Thanks To Supreme Court Destroying Voting Rights Act
Alabama ran a primary yesterday. It supposedly ran one in May — and many people voted in it! — but it never counted. If that sounds confusing… it was! So much so that turnout bottomed out around 5 percent. To put that in context, almost 23 percent turned…
SCOTUS has issued its decisions. Now Congress has the floor.
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The Supreme Court and the Indian nations
This article was adapted from an essay that first appeared in the essay collection America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance (MIT Press, 2026). *** Indian nations occupy two distinct places in American history and law. American Indians are…
“Milton, Mill, and (Maybe) Aristotle on Why Hearing Horrible Speech Makes You a Better Person,” by Andrew Koppelman
The article is here; here’s the part of the Introduction that summarizes the core of the argument: How do you sell the idea of free speech to people who worry that words hurt? In the last few years, there have been increasing demands, most…