In a Q&A with The Emancipator, Eric Foner, a leading authority on the post-Civil War era, said he wants to see liberal justices develop a vision of the Constitution that doesn’t build on conservative legal ideology.
Author Archives: Cristian Farias
Cristian Farias is a legal journalist who writes about law and the courts. He edits Inquest, a digital journal focused on ending the harms of mass incarceration. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. A longer version appears at ballsandstrikes.org, a site that publishes progressive analysis and commentary about the Supreme Court.