US Constitution

Thirteen cases. Thirteen words that moved. Six ways to move a word — and one question underneath all of them. It was asked in a…

For two centuries, marriage was something the states decided. In 2015, five justices decided it for all fifty of them. They found the answer in…

Congress wrote one word into law in 1972 and never stopped to define it. Fifty years later, an agency decided the word meant something else….

Government can call a true thing dangerous, and never pass a single law. They named the danger “malinformation” — true, but inconvenient. The First Amendment…

The Fourteenth Amendment promised equal protection in 1868. For a century, “equal” was bent to mean “separate,” then “sorted.” In 2023, the Supreme Court returned…

The Second Amendment was ratified in 1791. For most of the last century, courts read the individual right out of it. In 2008, the Supreme…

The Fourth Amendment was ratified in 1791. Its plain words were traded for a feeling in 1967. Now the watching runs quietly in your pocket….