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What’s still interesting is that the affirmative-action wars reflect larger issues, such as the betrayed promise of the civil-rights legislation and the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection as well as the dishonesty, denial, and dysfunction surrounding questions of racial justice more generally.
Affirmative action in college admissions for underrepresented minorities provokes strong emotions. These strong emotions are guided by two competing principles.
Acentral concern with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is bias.
On June 11, 2020, the Hertz Corporation introduced a new strategy for bankruptcy financing.
In the 1950s, American corporate executives were overwhelmingly white, male, and valued progression within well-defined hierarchies over creativity.
High-skilled labor shortages threaten the United States’ ability to compete internationally with both adversaries and allies in major industries, such as manufacturing and high technology.
This is the second Essay in a two-part series exploring Chief Justice John Marshall’s private and public relationship to slavery.
This is the first of two Essays exploring Chief Justice John Marshall’s private and public relationship to slavery.
Speaking on Chevron deference at Duke University School of Law in 1989, Justice Antonin Scalia told the audience to “lean back, clutch the sides of your chairs, and steel yourselves for a pretty dull lecture.” Perhaps he would have withheld his cynicism if he could have seen the Supreme Court’s administrative-law rulings in the past year.
Over the past 225 years, the Supreme Court witnessed two presidential impeachment trials and two pathogenic shutdowns. This term had it all: guns, abortion, DACA, Little Sisters, LGBT discrimination, Trump’s tax returns, and more.
This Essay concerns a constitutional puzzle, the puzzle of for-cause removal. For a century the Supreme Court has been attempting to answer a simple question: when is it constitutional for Congress to provide that an agency head or lower official can be removed only for cause?
Chief Justice John Roberts mystified and frustrated court watchers with his opinions in the closing weeks of the Supreme Court’s October 2019 term.