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Franita Tolson (FSU): The Constitutional Structure of Voting Rights Enforcement. John Greabe (New Hampshire): Withholding Constitutional Remedies. Luke M. Milligan (Louisville): The Forgotten Right to Be Secure. Peter J. Aschenbrenner (Purdue): Our Aesthetic Constitution. Nathan Cortez (SMU): Do Graphic Tobacco Warnings Violate the First Amendment? Lawrence B. Solum (Georgetown): Originalism and Constitutional Construction. Jack M. Balkin (Yale): The New Originalism and the Uses of History. Stephen C. Yeazell (UCLA): Courting Ignorance: Why We Know so Little About Our Most Important Courts. Carrie Menkel-Meadow (Georgetown): Doing Good Instead of Doing Well? What Lawyers Could be Doing in a World of “Too Many” Lawyers. Cohen on the most powerful dissent in American history: A smart new book reveals precisely how and why Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind about the first amendment. The Supreme Court has a long history of standing athwart history yelling stop — this Supreme Court, however, wants to shift history into reverse. Ginsburg and Scalia’s Supreme Court complaints: Do they agree about what’s wrong with the Roberts court? Stephen Rohde reviews The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals by Danielle McLaughlin and Michael Avery. Elizabeth Warren's powerful speech: Supreme Court is on the path to being a "wholly owned subsidiary of Big Business".