Supreme Court Cases

Race is once again at the center of the political debate. Just as the President has commissioned a blue-ribbon panel to help resolve racial tensions through a "national dialogue," and voters across the country are casting their vote on affirmative action programs, the Supreme Court returns from its summer recess to confront the race issue head on with two important cases on its docket.

Read a summary of all the Court's major civil liberties-related cases from this term.