The Supreme Court pulls Arizona’s anti-immigrant bill apart like a Barbie. Will they reassemble it or throw it away?
Garrett Epps
Garrett Epps is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore. He covers the Supreme Court for theatlantic.com. His book American Epic: Reading the U.S. Constitution was published in August 2013 by Oxford University Press.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Arizona Asks the Court Not to Trust the Feds
In state immigration law, local authorities offer to “help” the federal government by taking over its job.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Don’t Blame “Corporate Personhood”
Citizens United decimated what remained of campaign-finance reform, but the damage has been long in the making.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Judicial Review Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
An imaginary letter from Attorney General Eric Holder to Judge Jerry Smith of the Fifth Circuit
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Nine Circles of the ACA
By Wednesday afternoon, the Supreme Court was pondering whether Congress itself was unconstitutional.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Verrilli’s Courage Under Fire
Despite conventional wisdom on the left that the U.S. solicitor general buckled under attacks from the Supreme Court’s conservative justices, he in fact stood his ground.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Pre-Game’s Over. Now Begins the Health-Care Fight.
DAY 1: The Affordable Care Act armageddon arrives in full red-and-blue fury tomorrow. Today was just the opening shot.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Now Is the Law of Their Discontent
The biggest arguments against the Affordable Care Act exist far more in the political realm than the legal.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Precedents for the Unprecedented
The Comprehensive Baseball Bat Act that never quite materialized sheds light on the health-care case.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The History of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” Law
The English common-law origins of the legislation at the center of the investigation into Trayvon Martin’s death