Politics was not the only polarizing aspect of the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings on September 26, 2018. Under intense national scrutiny, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh… 
The Supreme Court avoided what Justice Felix Frankfurter called the “political thicket” of redistricting for over 180 years until deciding in Davis v. Bandemer (1986) that it was a justiciable matter….
Brett Kavanaugh has joined the Supreme Court at a critical time for cases involving immigrants’ rights. The cases that immigration policy scholars are currently following shine a spotlight on a critical…
My prior research with Joe Soss and Richard Fording has shown that work requirements for welfare programs have not led to reductions in poverty and improved economic well-being among recipients….
With the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, the United States Supreme Court has taken a decidedly conservative turn. We can expect the Court to continue to chip away at the Voting…
The election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States has been nothing short of controversial as he has built his presidential platform around stoking fears through…
While campaigning for the Presidency in Iowa in January 2016, Donald Trump declared, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any…
Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and John Roberts, part of the majority opinion in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Supreme Court’s McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission…
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