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The Civil Rights Inversion: Where Up is Down and Down is Up

That is the Republican mantra now.Ever since the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, Republicans have been chipping away at them through court cases like Shelby Cou...

Allegiance, Birthright, and Citizenship

When the Supreme Court, on April 1, heard arguments about birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara, the justices focused on jurisdiction. The Fourteenth Amendment provides: “All...

From DEI to Equal Protection: New Direction in Civil Rights Policy

The Trump administration is restoring the core value of equal opportunity to civil rights enforcement. It is eviscerating the race-baiting, intersectional policies of the Biden and...

The government’s Fourth Amendment double standard

Civil Rights and Wrongs is a recurring series by Daniel Harawa covering criminal justice and civil rights cases before the court.The federal government recently petitioned for cert...

Born American

We look at an important case before the Supreme Court.

Supreme Court Allows Civil Rights Challenge to City’s Protest Ordinance to Move Forward

Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion relating to a challenge to a City ordinance that required individuals participating in protests to stay within a “designated prot...

Allegiance, Birthright and Citizenship

The justices need to understand the full range of considerations underlying Trump v. Barbara.

Natural, Thus Universal, Human Rights

Casey Chalk, The Acton Institute It was admittedly a surprising circumstance for a debate on natural rights. On September 4 of last year, Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) was speaking dur...

Growing Partisan Divide in U.S. Civil Rights Law

The increasing polarization of American politics has been a subject of extensive research, yet few studies have illuminated the tempo and texture of legislative support for civil r...

Florida’s Major Changes to Civil Rights Claim Filing Rules

On May 22, 2026, Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill (HB) 1407, which revises the procedural framework governing the commencement of civil actions and administrative remedies u...

From Toleration to Religious Liberty

Tyler Mruczinski, Law & Liberty John Adams's evolution from mere toleration of Roman Catholicism to open support for religious liberty personifies a revolution in the American...

3 major Supreme Court cases are the focus of a new exhibit at San Antonio’s Mexican American Civil Rights Institute

The Bill of Rights, constitutional amendments, and due process are at the core of the discussion within the exhibit.

Exploring the history of birthright citizenship

Allen Guelzo examines the history behind one of today’s hottest political debates. What makes someone a citizen? We might say, a little hopefully, that a citizen is someone who obe...

The Trump Administration’s Latest Attack On Civil Rights Groups Is A Call To Action 

Attacking civil rights groups like SPLC follows a pattern and practice of the administration’s revisionist terror and political prosecutions. We can’t afford to look away. 

Academic Freedom & State Schools

Academic freedom is usually taken as being more than merely the right to freely make specific claims in that it is supposed to provide broad protection in such matters asRead More

Birthright Citizenship, Noem Family Circus, and Project Hail Mary

A wide-ranging episode of Freed Up covering foreign policy, legal battles, internet stupidity, airport misery, and a few unexpectedly spirited culture debates.

Turning Civil Rights Inside Out

The Supreme Court has now invited racial gerrymandering, as merely political and thus beyond judicial challenge.

GED Section: You Cannot Call It Freedom When One Group Can Tell Another How to Vote

Hughley argues that America's global defense of freedom rings hollow when Black voting rights face domestic restrictions, mirroring a pattern of Black sacrifice unmet by full citiz...

Filming Cops Is a First Amendment Right. The Feds Keep Harassing People for It Anyway.

Most federal appeals courts have recognized the right to record police. DHS employees nevertheless seem to view it as a crime.

Against the Political Clerisy

The freedom of association is surely the humblest and least-touted First Amendment right, and yet, as Luke Sheahan explains in this keynote lecture, it is crucial for preserving ou...

The Declaration and Civic Friendship

[This post is excerpted from the new book, National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America (Avid Reader Press/Simon… The post The Declaration and Civic Friendsh...

ACLU-NJ and Partners File Brief in Support of Rep. LaMonica McIver 

The ACLU of New Jersey, along with the National Women’s Law Center and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, today filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third...

It Is Not Big And Fancy

But it does a lot of work.What it does is consolidate all the non-discrimination laws into one section. Before discrimination was in many different sections of the laws. There are...

Vermonters will vote on equal protection amendment to state constitution this fall