PBS

Due Process Clause, Equal Protection Clause and Disenfranchising Felons

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like a similar provision in the Fifth Amendment, which only restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived ...
SCOTUSblog

Should all states have to use grand juries?

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. Although grand juries are required by the Fifth Amendment to charge serious ...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

OPINION: No constitutional equality proves we need the ERA

When this country was founded, women had no rights. As late as 2010, then-Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said in an interview that women still don’t. It wasn’t until 1971 that the court ruled ...