Constitutional law professors Garrett Epps and Peter Shane dissect Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s recent opinion justifying the continuation of racially-motivated ICE raids in Los Angeles.
Garrett Epps
Garrett Epps is the legal affairs editor at the Washington Monthly.
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The Kirk Assassination and the MAGA Threat to Free Speech
Demagogues are using the tragedy to target free speech, the First Amendment, and America itself.
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Why Does Trump Hate Vote-By-Mail?
Restricting vote-by-mail could disenfranchise millions, argues mail voting pioneer Phil Keisling.
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Fear and Loathing in Washington D.C.
Contributing Editor James Fallows shares what life is really like in a city under occupation.
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Pulling the Plug on Public Broadcasting
The former president of Oregon Public Broadcasting says cuts to federal funding for public media could be catastrophic for rural communities in his state.
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Supreme Court or Supreme Enablers?
A lopsided spate of unsigned rulings in favor of the Trump Administration betrays the Court’s bias and its abdication of the rule of the law.
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Amy Coney Barrett and the Supreme Court Give Birth to a Disaster
Her majority opinion allows Trump’s unconstitutional revocation of birthright citizenship to proceed for now and sends the courts and the country into chaos.
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LGBTQ Rights Are More Precarious Than Ever
Conservative activists are successfully weaponizing trans rights issues as a wedge to undermine LGBTQ progress more broadly.
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Trump’s Deportation Frenzy Echoes the Fugitive Slave Hunts of the 1850s
A legal scholar explains why the federal government is now committed to treating immigrants almost precisely as the antebellum South treated slaves.
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In Birthright Citizenship Case, Trump DOJ Asks Supreme Court Justices to Make Themselves Irrelevant
Attempting to limit trial judges’ power to issue nationwide orders, the solicitor general argued that every crying newborn rendered stateless by MAGA executive order had better get their own lawyer.
