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July 14, 2020
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court’s Unconscionable Rush to Kill a Prisoner
In allowing the government to kill a man amid a pandemic, the court's conservatives have declared their fealty to the death penalty.
July 9, 2020
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Brings the Presidency Back From a Lawless Brink
Today's decisions may not provide the deus ex machina that brings down Trump, but they slam the brakes on runaway executive power.
July 9, 2020
Nick Martin
Neil Gorsuch Affirms That Treaties With Tribal Nations Are the Law
In upholding the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s treaty-guaranteed lands, the justices did something simple but unexpected.
July 8, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Reproductive Coercion Wins at the Supreme Court
Conservatives have prevailed in an effort to deny people bodily autonomy. That’s always been their fight.
July 8, 2020
Matt Ford
The Electoral College Is an American Humiliation
If the Supreme Court no longer believes the lie that’s sustained this hastily concocted relic from our nation’s founding, why should anyone?
July 2, 2020
Matt Ford
Elena Kagan’s Fiery Defense of the Administrative State
The justice’s dissent in a little-regarded case strikes an important blow against the right’s efforts to decimate the federal government.
June 29, 2020
Matt Ford
John Roberts Chooses Precedent Over Ideology in Latest Abortion Fight
The chief justice threads a judicial needle and hands the conservative legal movement another disappointing ruling.
June 25, 2020
Matt Ford
Why Isn’t the Supreme Court on Twitter?
The high court’s low profile on social media is a mistake—and a missed opportunity.
June 18, 2020
Matt Ford
Trump’s Ineptitude Keeps Dream Alive for DACA Recipients
The Supreme Court grants a reprieve to hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants. Their fate will now be decided in the November election.
June 17, 2020
Nick Martin
At-Will Employment Is the Real Cancel Culture
A Supreme Court case and a series of workplace uprisings raise the question: Whose jobs are really protected in this country?
June 16, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
A Glimpse of a Trans Future
A historic Supreme Court ruling arrives in the middle of an uprising for Black trans lives.
June 15, 2020
Nick Martin
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline Battle Is About People, Not Precedent
The rural, Native, Black, and Latinx communities protesting the controversial pipeline deserve clean, safe places to call home.
June 15, 2020
Matt Ford
Neil Gorsuch Just Upended the Conservative Legal Project
The conservative justice’s ruling in favor of gay, queer, and transgender workers shows the limits of the right’s Faustian bargain on judges.
June 11, 2020
J.C. Hallman
When Mr. Sloan Went to Washington
Sam Sloan is a college dropout, an ex-con, and a polygamist. He is also the last non-lawyer to win a case at the Supreme Court.
May 27, 2020
Matt Ford
The Biggest Threat to a Coronavirus Vaccine Is the American People
The derangements of our current era could threaten the rock-solid legal precedents that provide states with the right to act in the interests of public health.
May 15, 2020
Matt Ford
Rebuilding the Constitution
American democracy is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
May 13, 2020
Matt Ford
For Trump, Following the Law Is an Undue Burden
Much like their client, the White House’s lawyers don’t seem to understand what a president does, but they’re not letting that stop them.
May 12, 2020
Nick Martin
Is the Supreme Court Scared of Tribal Sovereignty?
The public airing of Supreme Court arguments has laid bare just how ill-equipped the justices are to handle the basic tenets of Indian law.
April 28, 2020
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Eyes an Escape Hatch From Trump’s Corruption
Faced with having to choose between the president and Congress, the justices want to permanently abdicate their role as adjudicators.
April 21, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Right Way to Push Biden to the Left
It’s useless to convince him to adopt progressive policies if he won’t agree to structural reforms.
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