Const Law:Rights & Civil Lib

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How do 9 unelected people affect our elections, health insurance, ability to marry, or access to birth control or abortion? This course teaches you to read and analyze the opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) – and understand them in the context of contemporary American politics. We read classic Supreme Court decisions (e.g., freedom of speech, press, and association, racial and gender discrimination) as well as cases that are changing our current laws. The course highlight is an exciting moot court simulation of two SCOTUS cases with students playing justices and attorneys.