CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A proposed amendment to Iowa’s constitution regarding gun legislation will be on the back of the Nov. 8 ballot. The legal phrase “strict scrutiny” is crucial to ...

On December 10, the Supreme Court justices heard the arguments in the Fisher affirmative action case. In assessing the prospects for the case, many analysts hinge their views upon the willingness of ...

My friend Carson Holloway has a characteristically thoughtful article at Public Discourse today, digging below the surface of charges and counter-charges of “judicial activism.” As Holloway notes, ...

This term, the Court decided two significant First Amendment cases that divided the six conservatives down the middle. First, in Fulton, there was a split about whether Smith should be overruled.

Maryland’s ban on semiautomatic assault-style weapons violates the constitutional right to bear arms because the blanket prohibition is not narrowly tailored to achieve the compelling governmental ...

There are two things you won’t find in Iowa’s Constitution. One is an amendment guaranteeing the right to bear arms. Consulting the “Debates of the Iowa Constitution,” which chronicles the writing of ...

Kristen Clarke is President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Ezra Rosenberg is Co-Director of the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil ...

Let's move on to other variants. One looks at whether a law has any exceptions at all, and, if religious reasons are not among those exceptions, automatically applies strict scrutiny. It was proposed ...

The result in the Williams-Yulee case was a difficult one to predict except that it was entirely predictable that the result would be by a deeply divided Court. It is no surprise that it was a five-to ...

Leading up to District Judge Vaughn Walker’s landmark ruling that struck down California’s Proposition 8, there was much legal speculation over what level of “scrutiny” he would use to review laws ...