What Citizens United Actually Changed About Political Speech
Civics In A Year19 Des 2025

What Citizens United Actually Changed About Political Speech

Think you know Citizens United? The headlines got the heat, but the holding was far narrower than the myth. We walk through the real story—what the Court protected, what it left alone, and why the biggest shift in campaign money came from a different case altogether. We start with the foundation set by Buckley v. Valeo, where the Court split campaign finance into two buckets: contributions to candidates, which can be limited to deter corruption, and independent expenditures, which are protec...

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Inside The Sixth Amendment: Rights That Shape Justice

Inside The Sixth Amendment: Rights That Shape Justice

Power decides what counts as fair—unless people do. That’s the heartbeat of our conversation with Professor Esther Hong, a scholar of youth and adult carceral systems and a former appellate advocate, ...

22 Des 202517min

What Gideon v. Wainwright Teaches About Rights, Funding, And Real Justice

What Gideon v. Wainwright Teaches About Rights, Funding, And Real Justice

A single Supreme Court decision promised that no one would face the power of the state without a lawyer. The more complex question: who pays, who shows up, and how do we make that promise real? We sit...

22 Des 202518min

Chickens, Wheat, And The Commerce Clause

Chickens, Wheat, And The Commerce Clause

A chicken counter, a wheat field, and a school-zone arrest shouldn’t define the reach of federal power—but they do. We unpack how a few pivotal cases turned the Commerce Clause from a narrow trade rul...

19 Des 202520min

How Supreme Court Rulings Reshaped The Second Amendment

How Supreme Court Rulings Reshaped The Second Amendment

The ground under the Second Amendment keeps shifting—and the story is bigger than a single case. With Professor Nelson Lund of George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, we walk through the ...

18 Des 202513min

From Bakke To SFFA: How The Supreme Court Shaped Diversity In College Admissions

From Bakke To SFFA: How The Supreme Court Shaped Diversity In College Admissions

What happens when a single swing opinion steers higher education for decades—and then the Court changes course? We unpack the legal journey from Bakke’s fragmented ruling to the 2023 Students for Fair...

17 Des 202515min

When Free Exercise Meets Compulsory Education In Wisconsin v. Yoder

When Free Exercise Meets Compulsory Education In Wisconsin v. Yoder

A tiny truancy fine opened a constitutional door that still shapes classrooms today. We unpack Wisconsin v. Yoder, the 1972 Supreme Court case where Old Order Amish parents won a free exercise exempti...

16 Des 202513min

Why Engel v. Vitale Redefined Faith And Public Schools

Why Engel v. Vitale Redefined Faith And Public Schools

A 22-word morning prayer, written by New York’s Board of Regents, ignited one of the most significant constitutional rulings of the last century. We sit down with Professor Katskee to unpack Engel v. ...

15 Des 202517min

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