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The Most Egregious Case the Supreme Court Agreed to Hear Next Term

The One Remaining Identity the Supreme Court Is Willing to Protect

John Roberts’ Big Complaint About Elena Kagan Is Deeply Ironic

John Roberts Is Winning. The Rest of Us Are Losing.

The Supreme Court’s YOLO Approach to Guns Is About to Face a Major Test

The Roberts Court Has Turned the First Amendment Into a Wrecking Ball

The Affirmative Action Ruling Distorts the History of Anti-Asian Discrimination

John Roberts Is Already Frustrated With the Response to SCOTUS Killing Student Debt Relief

Biden Botched Student Debt Relief. His Future Depends on Fixing It.

The Supreme Court’s Blessing of Anti-LGBTQ+ Discrimination Will Haunt Gay Couples

The Supreme Court Just Dealt a Major Blow to Corporate Mandates

Ketanji Brown Jackson Wrung One Thing Out of John Roberts’ Affirmative Action Opinion

The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Are Breaking History and Our Future

The End of Affirmative Action

Ketanji Brown Jackson Exposed the Supreme Court’s “Colorblind” Lie

The Supreme Court Just Bulldozed Affirmative Action—With Two Bizarre Loopholes

“This S— Never Stops With White People”: How Clarence Thomas Got to This Moment

The End of Affirmative Action

Neil Gorsuch’s Quirky Originalism Just Dealt a Major Blow to Corporate America

The American People Understand the Stakes of Dobbs. The Political Class Does Not.

SCOTUS Sides With Democracy in Moore v. Harper

John Roberts Has Wrested Back Control of the Supreme Court

There’s a Time Bomb in Progressives’ Big Supreme Court Voting Case Win

Ketanji Brown Jackson Offers a Grave Warning in a Case Liberals Think They Won

What Voters Think About SCOTUS One Year On From Dobbs

The Timing of Alito’s Private Jet Scandal Couldn’t Be More Damning

Red States Just Lost Big at the Supreme Court

Is the Supreme Court Ready to Walk Back Last Term’s Historically Awful Guns Ruling?

Justice Alito’s One-Star Trip Advisor Review

Alito’s Billionaire Pals Reeled In a Big One—and It Wasn’t the Salmon

Clarence Thomas’ Latest Criminal Justice Ruling Is an Outright Tragedy

Alito and Thomas Might Be Losing Their Fellow Conservatives

Clarence Thomas Went After My Work. His Criticisms Reveal a Disturbing Fact About Originalism.

The Surprising Reason Neil Gorsuch Has Been So Good on Native Rights

Amy Coney Barrett Delivered a Massive Victory for Native Rights

The Case Against Trump Tests the Tension Between Secrecy and Justice

The Next Republican President’s Supreme Court Picks Will Be Far Worse Than Trump’s

Why Anti-Trans Legislation Took Over State-Level Governments This Year

Can a Florida Judge Protect Trump from Jack Smith’s Case?

There Are Still Two Major Legal Threats to the Voting Rights Act

KBJ Gives Clarence Thomas a Lesson in Congress’ Basic Spending Power

Samuel Alito Took a Blowtorch to Environmental Law

John Roberts Is Nobody’s Chump

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Chief Justice John Roberts to Alabama: Not So Fast

The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Decision Is Even Better Than It Looks

LOL at the Supreme Court’s Insane Dog-Toy Ruling

John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh Really Did Just Save the Voting Rights Act

Progressive Judges Are Trying to Use the Second Amendment for Good

Congress Just Upended the Legal Case Against Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan

How Alito’s Opinion in Dobbs Provides a Framework for Anti-Trans Legislation

John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh Just Delivered the Surprise of the Supreme Court Term

Samuel Alito’s Wetlands-Destroying Opinion Pretends Physics Doesn’t Exist

The Supreme Court Has a New Bold Lone Dissenter

There’s Unsettling New Evidence About William Rehnquist’s Views on Segregation

The Supreme Court Sleeper Case That Poses an Existential Threat to Artistic Freedom

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is Rooted in a Lie

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is Totally Fake

The Missing Pieces of Supreme Court Coverage

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

SCOTUS Sackett Decision Threatens 90 Million Acres of Wetlands

Sackett v. EPA takes a hatchet to the Clean Water Act