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Criminal Justice: President Donald Trump, right, is applauded by a group of former prisoners during the 2019 Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act Celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 1, 2019.

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Criminal Justice Reform Isn’t Dead

by Marc Levin April 27, 2026April 27, 2026

Open Season: The assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the outset of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran sets a dangerous precedent. Here, A poster of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and an anti-U.S. placard are carried in Tehran, Iran, April 1, 2026.

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Amid War in Mideast, Lingering Questions Over Killing Iran’s Leader

by James D. Zirin April 23, 2026April 23, 2026

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Chiles v. Salazar: A New Frontier of Speech

by Alison Gash April 13, 2026April 14, 2026

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The Mystery of the Joan Little Case

by James D. Zirin April 13, 2026April 9, 2026

Third Term? Attorney Alan Dershowitz, background center left in blue shirt, listens to remarks by President Donald Trump during his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, in May 2024.

Books

Alan Dershowitz: Trump Can Serve a Third Term

by Garrett Epps April 2, 2026May 5, 2026

Claude v. Compliance: A U.S. judge temporarily blocked the Pentagon from blacklisting the AI firm Anthropic following a dispute over its refusal to allow its technology to be used for surveillance and autonomous weapons.

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The Pentagon’s “Orwellian” Case Against Anthropic

by Matt Watkins April 2, 2026April 1, 2026

Wong Kim Ark of the 1898 birthright citizenship case

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Birthright Citizenship and the Making of Citizens

by Allen C. Guelzo March 31, 2026March 31, 2026

Grave Echos: Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, pictured here, wrote the Supreme Court’s 1857 Dred Scott decision, which denied Black Americans citizenship; the Court’s decision in Trump v. Barbara could again create a form of hereditary legal inferiority in America.

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Birthright Citizenship: Supreme Court Could Create an Exploitable Noncitizen Class

by Garrett Epps March 30, 2026March 29, 2026

Abolish ICE: Trump's ICE agents and other federal law enforcement in North Minneapolis, United States, on January 14, 2026.

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“ICE Is Too Bloated, Politicized, and Corrupt to Continue”

by David Masciotra March 26, 2026March 26, 2026

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In Kentucky, Impeachment Threatens Judicial Independence

by Joshua A. Douglas March 26, 2026March 25, 2026