Yesterday’s decision by the Supreme Court to strike down certain majority-minority congressional districts as unconstitutional racial gerrymandering has landed like a political thunderclap, though not exactly a surprising one. If you’ve been watching the Court’s trajectory on race-conscious policymaking, this feels less like a sudden detour and more like the next logical mile marker. Still,…
The Supreme Court Revives Qualified Immunity (Again)
A recent decision from the Supreme Court has dropped us right back into one of the most stubborn legal debates in modern America: qualified immunity. If you’re feeling a sense of déjà vu, that’s because this issue never really goes away. It just rotates through new fact patterns, new plaintiffs, and new frustrations. At the…