Kermit Roosevelt III

Roosevelt is a professor of constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law and the author of The Nation that Never Was: Reconstructing America’s Story.

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The Supreme Court Is Dooming America to Repeat History

Those who do not learn from history, George Santayana famously wrote, are doomed to repeat it. But today’s Supreme Court majority seems to have a different idea of the lessons of the past. Increasingly, they...

By Kermit Roosevelt III

The Roe Leak Shows the Supreme Court's Ongoing Effort to Overturn Established Rights

The leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe v. Wade was a shock, but the content of the draft should not have been a surprise. Overruling Roe has been a stated goal of...

By Kermit Roosevelt III

How Martin Luther King Jr. Changed His Mind About America

More than fifty years after his death, Martin Luther King Jr. remains a towering figure in the history of American civil rights. As with most influential thinkers, there is a certain amount of ambiguity in...

By Kermit Roosevelt III

I Spent 7 Months Studying Supreme Court Reform. We Need to Pack the Court Now

I spent the last seven months on President Biden’s Supreme Court commission, talking, listening, and sometimes arguing with experts from a variety of legal backgrounds—activists, professors, and former judges. I went into the process thinking...

By Kermit Roosevelt III

Theodore Roosevelt’s Lessons for Today’s Politics

America has gone through the same sort of transformation and reforging of identity that Theodore Roosevelt experienced

By Kermit Roosevelt III
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