If you describe yourself as a liberal or a progressive, that probably means you have a low opinion of originalism, the school of constitutional thought that is closely identified with the conservative ...

The values of the justices matter — a lot.

Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether the issue concerns abortion, the scope of federal agencies, the death penalty ...

Last year, more than 40,000 people were killed by guns in the United States. Gun violence is now the No. 1 killer of children in America, and every month, about 70 American women are murdered by ...

Outside of law school classrooms, the liberal constitutional agenda is failing. Enter the American Constitution Society.

This is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined everything. Originalism is now the dominant approach to constitutional interpretation for the Republican ...

The text and historical context of the Constitution provide liberals with ample opportunities to advance their own vision of America. Ponnuru might be right about conservatives’ rhetorical success, ...

Anonymous Quotes from Judges No More? Audio By Carbonatix In a Politico article yesterday, reporter Josh Gerstein states that a “rift is emerging among the Supreme Court’s conservatives” over how the ...

In 1987, the Senate resoundingly rejected the nomination of Judge Robert Bork for the Supreme Court because it found his originalist views unacceptable. As a law professor, Bork argued that the ...