Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable

A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court's record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens' consti...