News & Commentary

The 2018 legislative session kicked off last week, and there’s a lot at stake – especially for our criminal justice system. 

Forcing people to ask permission from the government before expressing themselves violates the fundamental right to freedom of speech that the First Amendment was written to protect.

Last month a federal judge refused to block the removal of a Confederate monument that was erected on courthouse grounds in Shreveport more than a century ago.

While the Constitution protects the rights of students at school, many school officials are unaware of students’ legal protections, or simply ignore them.

Students around the country are turning last week’s heartbreaking school shooting in Parkland, Florida, into an inspiring and exemplary push for legislative change. In the last few days, many people have asked whether schools can discipline students for speaking out.

Had he been charged in any other state in America, Kia Stewart would not have been convicted of murder. The jury in his case split 10 to 2, which anywhere else would have resulted in a hung jury and a mistrial.  

On January 24, 2017, Chelline Carter pulled up to the CVS parking lot where her son had just been placed under arrest by Shannon Brasseux, a police officer with the Lafayette Police Department. 

It remains to be seen whether the Supreme Court will be as forceful a “bulwark of a limited Constitution” as the lower courts have been. But one thing is clear: thus far, the federal courts have been willing to do just what Hamilton hoped they would: Stand up to the president in defense of liberty

We’re suing the Webster Parish School District in Louisiana to put an end to its constitutional violations.