Randall Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His books include Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, The Persistence of the Colour Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency and Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History and Culture.
The Supreme Court of the United States settles disputes between the Congress, the presidency and the judiciary, determines the meaning of federal statutes, allocates authority between states and the federal government, and decides whether governments, state and federal, have encroached on rights in violation of the federal constitution, the supreme law of the land. It is the court which...
In May 1987, as part of the festivities marking the 200th anniversary of the United States constitution, Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to sit on the US Supreme Court, delivered a hugely controversial speech. Noting the quasi-religious reverence in which the framers of the constitution are held in America, Marshall expressed some scepticism about routine proclamations of...
Adam Shatz talks to Randall Kennedy and Mike Davis about the results of the US elections.
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