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.
Inside the right’s campaign to hijack our country’s founding text—and how to fight back.
Post-9/11 detainees at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn
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