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US constitution and civil liberties

May 2024

  • man in 18-century clothing standing outside grand domed building

    The Year of Living Constitutionally: a man, a political plan … and a musket

  • Jonathan Greenblatt

    Anti-Defamation League ramps up lobbying to promote controversial definition of antisemitism

April 2024

  • Bald white man wearing a suit smiles tightly.

    House Republicans’ bid to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas fails in US Senate

    Senate Democrats dismissed the articles of impeachment, as the charges failed to meet bar of ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’
  • Leonard Leo speaks to media at Trump Tower in 2016.

    Billionaire Leonard Leo rejects Senate subpoena over supreme court gifts

    Progressive groups hail long-brewed move against influential donor but protest lack of summons for Harlan Crow
  • The US supreme court building.

    US historians file brief with supreme court rejecting Trump’s immunity claim

    Fifteen scholars on US history outline that Trump is not immune to prosecution for crimes committed while he was president

March 2024

  • Supreme Court to issue possible rulings on the biggest cases of the term<br>epa10717385 People walk past the US Supreme Court, as the high judges prepare to issue their most important rulings of the year in Washington, DC, USA, 29 June 2023. Before departing for its customary summer recess the court still has multiple cases to decide, including whether colleges can continue to use affirmative action, whether President Joe Biden has the authority to cancel student debt and whether certain businesses have a right to refuse services for same-sex weddings. EPA/SHAWN THEW

    US supreme court tells lower courts to reconsider two free speech cases

    First amendment cases involving critics who were blocked from posting on public officials’ social media pages
  • Man in suit at gaudy Florida resort

    US supreme court ‘erred badly’ with Trump ruling, leading US historian says

    Allan Lichtman, who has correctly predicted outcome of every US election since 1984, disagrees with decision on Colorado ballot
  • A man walks off stage

    The fight for democracy
    Trump’s supreme court case hinged on the 14th amendment – what it actually means

    The supreme court determined if section 3 of the 14th amendment – which bars insurrectionists from holding office – applied to Trump

February 2024

  • FILE PHOTO: The sun rises over the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington<br>FILE PHOTO: The sun casts shadows as it rises over the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., December 20, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

    US supreme court appears skeptical of social media content moderation laws

  • Robert Reich

    The Republican party wants to turn America into a theocracy

    Robert Reich

January 2024

  • Trump supporters participate in a rally Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.

    US historians sign brief to support Colorado’s removal of Trump from ballot

  • A protesters holds up a sign with pictures of supreme court justices Thomas, Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch outside the supreme court.

    The supreme court now serves the billionaire donor class – let’s rein it in

    Martin Luther King III and Arndrea Waters King
  • Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows speaks at an event

    The fight for democracy
    ‘Designed to terrorize’: Maine official who removed Trump from ballot describes recent threats

  • A Black woman with long thin dreads and an orange blazer looks seriously at the camera in a portrait.

    The fight for democracy
    Sherrilyn Ifill on a Trump win: ‘We will cease to be a democracy’

  • US Department of Justice sues Texas over new state immigration law

  • Trump asks US supreme court to review Colorado ruling removing him from 2024 ballot

December 2023

  • Trump speaking.

    Trump expected to challenge removal of name from states’ primary ballots

    Maine and Colorado have said he is ineligible under the 14th amendment due to his actions during the January 6 Capitol attack
  • Donald Trump<br>FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023, in Reno, Nev. The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 19, declared Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot, setting up a likely showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the race. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)

    Colorado’s ruling to disqualify Trump sets up a showdown at supreme court

    The conservative-dominated court, to which Trump appointed three stringent rightwingers, will pitch into the partisan fight
  • Scott Perry

    Prosecutors gain access to majority of Trump ally Scott Perry’s phone

    Judge orders Republican congressman to turn over 1,700 records from his phone for 2020 election interference investigation

November 2023

  • TLC's Give A Little Awards - Arrivals<br>LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 27: Activist and honoree Monica Lewinsky arrives at TLC's Give A Little Awards at NeueHouse Hollywood on September 27, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images,)

    Monica Lewinsky calls for presidential age limits and ban on self-pardons

    Political activist who was intern in Bill Clinton White House urges wide-ranging review of constitution in Vanity Fair article
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