Jurisprudence
By
Mark Joseph Stern
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The conservative supermajority’s move to constitutionalize “colorblindness” has sweeping implications in many other areas of the law.
Jurisprudence
By
Mark Joseph Stern
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A brief history of “colorblindness,” the idea that gutted the Voting Rights Act.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court blessed a Kafkaesque nightmare by a 6–3 vote along the usual partisan lines.

The extremist jurist’s dissent in the birthright citizenship case could in theory kick the door open to a future…

We are left with a court that is not only unaccountable, but utterly unmoored from internal restraints on its own power.

This court has impaled one of the most important laws in American history, with disastrous consequences for multiracial democracy

It is nothing short of stunning that Trump came one vote away from persuading the court to repeal the bedrock of the…