Garrett Epps

Garrett Epps, a law professor at the University of Baltimore and a former reporter for the Washington Post, is a legal correspondent for The Atlantic Wire. He is the author of Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America.

Campaign FinanceJanuary 20, 2011

Stealing the Constitution

Inside the right’s campaign to hijack our country’s founding text—and how to fight back.

Garrett Epps
PoliticsMay 29, 2008

The ‘FCC-Word’

Censorship is a really dirty word.

Garrett Epps
Criminal JusticeJanuary 10, 2008

The Voter ID Fraud

The conservatives ensconced on the Supreme Court are set to uphold draconian ID requirements on voters that will redefine electoral politics in America.

Garrett Epps
International LawOctober 10, 2007

We Need a Nobel Prize in Law

Those who serve the law in dangerous and original ways are deserving of the recognition–and the protection–that a Nobel Prize would bring them.

Garrett Epps
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HumorApril 10, 2006

The Nino Scalia Guide to Sicilian Hand Gestures

It can now be revealed that Justice Antonin Scalia has compiled his own secret list of Sicilian hand gestures expressing subtle jurisprudential points.

Garrett Epps
LawMarch 2, 2005

Judicial Jeopardy

Questions the Senate should address to any Supreme Court nominee.

Garrett Epps
Political FiguresJuly 2, 2003

“…the evidence indicates a pattern of abuse…”

Post-9/11 detainees at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn were held in lockdown twenty-three hours a day (an

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Campaign FinanceJanuary 20, 2011

Inside the right’s campaign to hijack our country’s founding text—and how to fight back.

PoliticsMay 29, 2008

Censorship is a really dirty word.

Criminal JusticeJanuary 10, 2008

The conservatives ensconced on the Supreme Court are set to uphold draconian ID requirements on voters that will redefine electoral politics in America.

International LawOctober 10, 2007

Those who serve the law in dangerous and original ways are deserving of the recognition–and the protection–that a Nobel Prize would bring them.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

HumorApril 10, 2006

It can now be revealed that Justice Antonin Scalia has compiled his own secret list of Sicilian hand gestures expressing subtle jurisprudential points.

LawMarch 2, 2005

Questions the Senate should address to any Supreme Court nominee.

Political FiguresJuly 2, 2003

Post-9/11 detainees at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn were held in lockdown twenty-three hours a day (an