David Cole, national legal director of the ACLU, is legal-affairs correspondent for The Nation. He is the author, most recently, of Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed.
The Court gave the Obama administration near-total victory, striking down key parts of Arizona’s immigration law.
Today's decisions about sex, drugs, and union speech may offer clues about next week's decision on healthcare.
Growing public protest, along with two landmark lawsuits, may put an end to this dragnet policy that overwhelmingly targets young black and Latino men.
What’s next for the Defense of Marriage Act?
Why did Obama administration lawyers refuse to discount the possibility, even for First Amendment–protected speech?
In 2002 Washington deported an innocent man to Syria, where he was tortured. Why can’t we apologize?
Tarek Mehanna got seventeen years in prison for translating a document.
Como diría Mark Twain: los informes acerca de la muerte de Obamacare han sido groseramente exagerados.
Court watchers are pronouncing the death of healthcare reform. But a closer look at Justice Kennedy's questions suggests there's hope yet.