Author name: David Adler

Saluting the flag: A matter of speech and religious liberty By David Adler It is fair to say that the government’s preeminent responsibility is to provide for the nation’s defense…....

By David Adler In his unanimous opinion for the Supreme Court in the watershed case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Chief Justice Earl Warren asked the foundational question:…...

By David Adler “If it was not the most important decision in the history of the court,” Justice Stanley Reed observed of Brown v. Board of Education, “it was very…...

By David Adler President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s recess appointment of Earl Warren to the chief justiceship of Supreme Court on September 30, 1953, constituted a watershed mark in the history…...

By David Adler The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the most-celebrated civil rights decision in our nation’s history, is a reminder of…...

Justice Harlan’s imperishable dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson By David Adler Justice John Marshall Harlan was the only dissenter from the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson,…...

Plessy v. Ferguson: An infamous landmark ruling By David Adler Not all landmark Supreme Court decisions are admirable. Some are frankly infamous, including Plessy v. Ferguson. In 1896, in Plessy,…...

Supreme Court rules on secrecy v. public’s right to know By David Adler The Pentagon Papers case, which proceeded through the federal courts at record pace, presented the U.S. Supreme…...

Without Freedom of the Press: Life behind an Iron Curtain By David Adler Vladimir Putin’s infliction on the Russian people of a second Iron Curtain has demonstrated more effectively than…...

The Pentagon Papers case and the right to know By David Adler Thomas Jefferson once observed that fearless, independent newspapers were indispensable to the American experiment, and to “the people’s…...