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    Saluting the Flag: A Matter of Speech and Religious Liberty
    HumanitiesND
    • 5 days ago
    • 4 min

    Saluting the Flag: A Matter of Speech and Religious Liberty

    It is fair to say that the government’s preeminent responsibility is to provide for the nation’s defense. When necessary, civil liberties...
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    Supreme Court:  A Right to Refuse to Salute the Flag?
    HumanitiesND
    • 5 days ago
    • 4 min

    Supreme Court: A Right to Refuse to Salute the Flag?

    In 1940, in Minersville v. Gobitis, the Supreme Court upheld a state law requiring school children to salute the flag, despite religious...
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    Supreme Court:  State Actors May Not Lead School Prayer
    HumanitiesND
    • May 4
    • 4 min

    Supreme Court: State Actors May Not Lead School Prayer

    In 1962, in Engel v. Vitale, the U.S. Supreme Court, in one of the most controversial decisions of the Warren Court era, held school-led...
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    The Supreme Court and Religion: Entering the Maze
    HumanitiesND
    • May 4
    • 4 min

    The Supreme Court and Religion: Entering the Maze

    The U.S. Supreme Court’s first major ruling on the meaning of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause was in Everson v. Board of...
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    Brown and Racial Equality in Public Education
    HumanitiesND
    • Apr 21
    • 4 min

    Brown and Racial Equality in Public Education

    In his unanimous opinion for the Supreme Court in the watershed case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Chief Justice Earl Warren...
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          The Brown Decision and America’s Commitment to Equality
    HumanitiesND
    • Apr 19
    • 4 min

    The Brown Decision and America’s Commitment to Equality

    “If it was not the most important decision in the history of the Court,” Justice Stanley Reed observed of Brown v. Board of Education,...
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    Earl Warren: Finding “The Notion of Equality”
    HumanitiesND
    • Apr 7
    • 4 min

    Earl Warren: Finding “The Notion of Equality”

    President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s recess appointment of Earl Warren to the Chief Justiceship of Supreme Court on September 30, 1953,...
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    The Brown Decision: Twists and Turns Shape the Constitution
    HumanitiesND
    • Apr 6
    • 4 min

    The Brown Decision: Twists and Turns Shape the Constitution

    The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the most-celebrated civil rights decision in our nation’s...
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    Justice Harlan’s Imperishable Dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson
    HumanitiesND
    • Mar 28
    • 4 min

    Justice Harlan’s Imperishable Dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson

    Justice John Marshall Harlan was the only dissenter from the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, in 1896, in...
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    Plessy v. Ferguson: An Infamous Landmark Ruling
    HumanitiesND
    • Mar 17
    • 3 min

    Plessy v. Ferguson: An Infamous Landmark Ruling

    Not all landmark Supreme Court decisions are admirable. Some are frankly infamous, including Plessy v. Ferguson. In 1896, in Plessy, the...
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    Without Freedom of the Press: Life Behind an Iron Curtain
    HumanitiesND
    • Mar 10
    • 3 min

    Without Freedom of the Press: Life Behind an Iron Curtain

    Vladimir Putin’s infliction on the Russian people of a second Iron Curtain has demonstrated more effectively than any number of seminars...
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    Supreme Court Rules on Secrecy v. Public's Right to Know
    HumanitiesND
    • Mar 8
    • 3 min

    Supreme Court Rules on Secrecy v. Public's Right to Know

    The Pentagon Papers Case, which proceeded through the federal courts at record pace, presented the U.S. Supreme Court with a sharply...
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    The Pentagon Papers Case and the Right to Know
    HumanitiesND
    • Feb 25
    • 4 min

    The Pentagon Papers Case and the Right to Know

    Thomas Jefferson once observed that fearless, independent newspapers were indispensable to the American experiment, and to “the...
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    “The Sullivan Decision: Affirming the Right to Criticize Government”
    HumanitiesND
    • Feb 23
    • 4 min

    “The Sullivan Decision: Affirming the Right to Criticize Government”

    For a nation grounded on the republican values of self government and freedom of expression, both of which are served and ...
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      NY Times v. Sullivan Saves Freedom of the Press
    HumanitiesND
    • Feb 16
    • 4 min

    NY Times v. Sullivan Saves Freedom of the Press

    The Supreme Court’s decision in The New York Times v. Sullivan (1964), checks all the definitional boxes of a landmark ruling. It...
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    The Abrams Dissent: New Life for Freedom of Speech
    HumanitiesND
    • Feb 2
    • 4 min

    The Abrams Dissent: New Life for Freedom of Speech

    Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s iconic dissenting opinion in Abrams v. United States (1919) transformed the Clear and Present Danger Test...
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      Justice Holmes’s Changing Conceptions of Free Speech
    HumanitiesND
    • Jan 27
    • 4 min

    Justice Holmes’s Changing Conceptions of Free Speech

    Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’s opinion for the Supreme Court in Schenck v. United States (1919) shocked his libertarian friends and...
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    “Free Speech Origins: Clear and Present Danger Test”
    HumanitiesND
    • Jan 20
    • 4 min

    “Free Speech Origins: Clear and Present Danger Test”

    America’s free speech story, as written in Supreme Court decisions, did not begin until World War I when the Court declared in 1919, in...
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      Clinton v. Jones, Presidential Immunity and Donald Trump
    HumanitiesND
    • Jan 13
    • 5 min

    Clinton v. Jones, Presidential Immunity and Donald Trump

    Great questions of constitutional law—how can the president be held accountable, whether the president is amenable to the judicial...
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     Cooper v. Aaron: Striking Down Nullification, Again
    HumanitiesND
    • Jan 13
    • 4 min

    Cooper v. Aaron: Striking Down Nullification, Again

    In 1958, in Cooper v. Aaron, the Supreme Court, ensnared in the white-hot cauldron of southern resistance to federal authority, the...
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