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April 7, 2020
MagazineJohn Fabian Witt
How the Republican Party Took Over the Supreme Court
The 50-year effort to advance a conservative legal agenda
March 4, 2019
Matt Ford
Conservatives’ Coming War on the Warren Court
Led by Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court's originalists are taking aim at the landmark precedents set by liberal justices decades ago.
September 27, 2018
Matt Ford
Why Conservatives Want Kavanaugh at All Costs
They've been trying for decades to remake the Supreme Court, but have suffered one disappointment after another.
October 19, 2012
Richard A. Posner
How Many Constitutions Can Liberals Have?
March 29, 2012
William Galston
Why the Supreme Court Justices Won’t Be Crudely Political When They Rule on Obamacare
March 15, 2012
Gordon S. Wood
The Dream of Law
October 26, 2011
Richard A. Posner
Incarceration Blues
June 9, 2011
Justin Driver
Obama’s Law
May 5, 2011
Richard A. Posner
The Court of Celebrity
January 27, 2011
Justin Driver
Robust and Wide-Open
June 22, 2010
Justin Driver
It's Alive
May 19, 2010
Jonathan Chait
Kagan's Strict Constructionism
March 10, 2010
Jeffrey Rosen
Promises, Promises, Promises
February 1, 2010
E.J. Dionne Jr.
Brittle Activists
October 26, 2009
John B. Judis
End State
June 16, 2007
Jeffrey Rosen
Supreme Leader
On the arrogance of Anthony Kennedy
September 5, 2005
John B. Judis
Failed State
October 8, 2001
Sam Tanenhaus
Outside in
May 5, 1997
Jeffrey Rosen
Originalist Sin
June 6, 1994
Jeffrey Rosen
Even Stephen

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