does more than give students a comprehensive and up-to-date set of cases; it provides the tools needed to make sense of them. Silverstein’s contextualization of cases makes it easier for students to understand complicated decisions, engage with the field of American constitutional law, and succeed in the course. Silverstein includes recent landmark cases, such as narrowing the application of the Voting Rights Act and , which expands the scope of protections against discrimination on the basis of sex to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The Twelfth Edition also will grapple with the Court’s ruling in the Mississippi abortion case of that overturned .