The Voting Rights Act Is Being Murdered Politely By Lawson Akhigbe

Supreme Court of the United States How the Supreme Court of the United States has spent sixty years dismantling the most consequential civil rights legislation in American history, with all the care and precision of a surgeon removing a patient's spine. There is a particular kind of legal violence that wears a robe. It does …

The Inaugural Address REMARKS OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP – JANUARY 20, 2017 WASHINGTON, D.C.

Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people of the world: thank you.We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and to restore its promise for all of our people.Together, we will determine the course of America and the …

The Republic on Mute: Power, Performance, and the Quiet Unravelling of American Accountability by Lawson Akhigbe

There are moments in a nation’s life when the problem is not a single policy failure or an errant leader, but a systemic lapse—a kind of institutional drowsiness where each arm of governance assumes the other will do the heavy lifting. Contemporary America, for all its procedural sophistication, increasingly looks like such a moment. At …