Garrett Epps

Garrett Epps, a former reporter for The Washington Post, is a novelist and legal scholar. He teaches courses in constitutional law and creative writing for law students at the University of Baltimore and lives in Washington, D.C. His new book is Wrong and Dangerous: Ten Right Wing Myths About Our Constitution.

Zombie Election: 5 Ways the 2012 Race Could Stagger On for Months

Zombie Election: 5 Ways the 2012 Race Could Stagger On for Months

There are two weeks left until the vote -- but who says things will end with the vote? More »

'Ninety Years of Discrimination' Is Enough, Court Declares

'Ninety Years of Discrimination' Is Enough, Court Declares

What yesterday's decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act teaches about equality, civility, and the Constitution More »

George Washington Didn't Have 'Too Much Influence—the Koch Brothers Do

George Washington Didn't Have 'Too Much Influence—the Koch Brothers Do

The magnates attempt to re-found the United States more to their liking. More »

Why Obama and Romney Don't Talk About the Supreme Court

Why Obama and Romney Don't Talk About the Supreme Court

Trying to score political points off the direction the judiciary has taken rarely works. More »

Conservative Justices Prepare to 'Gut' Affirmative Action

Conservative Justices Prepare to 'Gut' Affirmative Action

With Sandra Day O'Connor off the court, a system upheld just nine years ago will survive, if at all, as a shell of its former self. More »

The Klan Act: How an Obscure Law Could Cut Down on Bullying at the Polls

The Klan Act: How an Obscure Law Could Cut Down on Bullying at the Polls

It's time to dust off a Reconstruction-era statute aimed at private citizens who try to block minorities from voting. More »

Pennsylvania's Voter ID Law: Takes a Licking but Keeps on Ticking

Pennsylvania's Voter ID Law: Takes a Licking but Keeps on Ticking

The Commonwealth Court's latest order blocks election officials from requiring ID, but not from asking for it. More »

The Supreme Court's New Term Starts With Echoes of Its Last

The Supreme Court's New Term Starts With Echoes of Its Last

In a scenario out of Groundhog Day, Don Verrilli and the justices discuss a case that was already argued once last term. More »

As Scalia Falters, Will Alito Fill the Void on the Right?

As Scalia Falters, Will Alito Fill the Void on the Right?

Uncle Nino's "originalism" looks back, because the past is good; young Sam Alito looks forward, out of fear the future will be bad. More »

'Free Speech' and the 1st Amendment Aren't Always the Same Thing

'Free Speech' and the 1st Amendment Aren't Always the Same Thing

Maybe we should understand what people in other countries think before we tell them they are wrong. More »

How Two of the Nation's Leading Conservative Jurists Locked Horns Over a Two-Word Phrase

How Two of the Nation's Leading Conservative Jurists Locked Horns Over a Two-Word Phrase

When Godzilla fights Mothra, who do you root for? More »

Meet the Pontius Pilate of Voting Rights: Pennsylvania's Supreme Court

Meet the Pontius Pilate of Voting Rights: Pennsylvania's Supreme Court

A four-member majority washes its hands of the voter ID conflict More »

Voting: Right or Privilege?

Voting: Right or Privilege?

The Constitution mentions "the right to vote" five times. Judges, and voter ID law proponents, don't seem to be getting the hint. More »

Does Antonin Scalia Still Matter?

Does Antonin Scalia Still Matter?

The Reagan appointee has been perhaps the most significant influence on law in the past three decades. But the start of the new term looks likely to mark the end of the Scalia Court and the beginning of the Roberts one. More »

Does Cigarette Marketing Count as Free Speech?

Does Cigarette Marketing Count as Free Speech?

Dispatch from First-Amendment Fantasyland: The D.C. Circuit Court dismisses Congress's anti-smoking warning labels as "ideology." More »

Terrifying Teen Speech in the News Again

Terrifying Teen Speech in the News Again

What kind of democracy teaches its young people they'll be punished for talking out of turn? More »

'Political Animals' Makes a Pretty Good Guide to Presidential Succession Law

'Political Animals' Makes a Pretty Good Guide to Presidential Succession Law

Unfortunately, the only place you'll see the 25th Amendment do what it's supposed to is on television. More »

Why Pennsylvania's Voter ID Law Is Unconstitutional

Why Pennsylvania's Voter ID Law Is Unconstitutional

In upholding a law that could disenfranchise 9 percent of the state's population, Judge Simpson breaks new ground in belittling a fundamental American right. More »

Genuine Christian Scholars Smack Down an Unruly Colleague

Genuine Christian Scholars Smack Down an Unruly Colleague

The phony evangelical "historian" David Barton meets his match at last. More »

If a Government Can't Tax, Is It Really a Government?

If a Government Can't Tax, Is It Really a Government?

A ground-breaking Colorado case tests a constitutional guarantee. More »

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