Supreme Court Decision Didn’t End Civil Asset Forfeiture
By Emma Andersson The 84 percent of Americans who oppose civil asset forfeiture can be forgiven for…
SC Rules against Excessive Fines, Fees, and Forfeitures
By Nusrat Choudhury and Orion Dnjuma Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a rare unanimous ruling…
Guest Commentary: Consensus is Dead and the Supreme Court Broken, Part 2
by Scott Ragsdale Part 2 – But You Can’t Kill the Message. Even if Kavanagh Withdrew If…
Guest Commentary: Consensus is Dead and the Supreme Court Broken
by Scott Ragsdale Part 1 – You Can Kill the Messenger. “What a message to send to…
Closing the Double Jeopardy Loophole
By David Cole and Somil Trivedi The Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment states that no…
Supreme Court’s Disingenuous Funeral Ceremony for Korematsu
By Carl Takei Over Independence Day weekend, I joined hundreds of fellow Japanese-Americans at the Tule Lake…
The Supreme Court Looks Away
By David Cole At the close of his opinion upholding President Donald Trump’s ban on immigrants from…
Masterpiece Supreme Court Decision: The Bakery Wins the Battle but Loses the War
By James Esseks In the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled for a bakery that…
Locked Up Indefinitely: The Supreme Court Case for Immigrants’ Right to a Bond Hearing
By Judy Rabinovitz and Michael Tan On Oct. 3, the ACLU will be back in the Supreme…
Will Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Data?
By Nathan Freed Wessler The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a landmark case that…
Justice Sotomayor Challenges Police Power in Suspicionless Stops
The talk of the legal world this week has been the scathing dissent offered by Justice Sonia…
SCOTUS on Deportation: A Non-Decision with Teeth
By Cecilia Wang Today the Supreme Court announced that it was deadlocked four to four on United States…
Prosecutors Still Using Race To Choose Juries
By Cassandra Stubbs This week’s 7-1 Supreme Court decision in Foster v. Chatman was a huge victory…
What Impact Will Justice Scalia’s Comments Have on Affirmative Action?
The New York Times and other observers believe a Texas affirmative action plan “seemed to be in…
Eye on the Courts: Has the Police Issue Been Miscast As Racial Rather than Class-Based?
In the year since Ferguson, the media and the nation has focused largely on a string of…
