Articles

Selected Articles by Kermit Roosevelt

… In the News
Bloomberg Law
Recalibrating Supreme Court Terms is the Long Game to Fairness
TIME
Why SCOTUS Term Limits Will Lead to a Fairer Court
TIME
What Sealed Trump’s Fate
TIME
What the Trump Ballot Fight Teaches Us About the Supreme Court
L.A. Times
Trump is Running Despite the 14th Amendment. He’s not the first insurrectionist to do so
TIME
The Case for Why the Constitution Blocks Trump Being President Again
TIME
The Supreme Court is Dooming America to Repeat History
Boston Globe

What We Get Wrong about July 4
TIME
Juneteenth’s Vision of Freedom Expresses American Values Better Than the Fourth of July’s
TIME
The Supreme Court Has Been Engaged in a Rollback of Rights. Abortion Would Just Be the Latest
TIME
How Martin Luther King Changed his Mind About America
The Hill
The Birth of Our America Isn’t When You Think
TIME
I Spent 7 Months Studying Supreme Court Reform. We Need to Pack the Court Now
The Hill
Climate Change Solutions Do Exist
TIME
Theodore Roosevelt’s Lessons for Today’s Politics
AARP
My Kind of Landscape: Theodore Roosevelt and Independence Hall
NY Times
Liberal Supreme Court Justices Have Little Reason to Compromise
Penn Live
Here’s what’s wrong with Pat Toomey’s opposition to Merrick Garland
TIME
Donald Trump Is Wrong About Torture
The Hill
Remembering our resolution
The Strand
What I learned writing historical fiction
The Daily Beast
Japanese American internment’s ugly lessons
Roanoke Times
Paris and the past
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Being tough, doing wrong: The shame of mass incarceration
The Hill
A medal for Mitsuye Endo
The Washington Times
Americans, without distinction. Birthright citizenship is a core constitutional principle
Slate
Justice Cincinnatus: David Souter—A Dying Breed, The Yankee Republican
NY Daily News
The Constitution protects us all
Christian Science Monitor
California’s same-sex marriage case affects all of us. It forces us to consider why we have rights
CNN
Can Texas defy Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling?
The Sun Sentinel
Who is protected by our Constitution?
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