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September 29, 2017
Scott Lemieux
The Supreme Court’s Anti-Democratic Feedback Loop
The GOP installs Supreme Court justices over the will of voters. The Supreme Court helps the GOP remain in power. Rinse, repeat.
September 28, 2017
Sarah Jones
The Supreme Court will get another chance to wreck unions.
September 7, 2017
Lawrence Goldstone
Will Anthony Kennedy Heed His Own Words and Protect “DREAMers”?
The Supreme Court, not Trump, will likely decide the fate of DACA—and the swing justice has already revealed his opinion of an important legal precedent.
September 5, 2017
Sarah Jones
The Nashville Statement Is the Religious Right’s Death Rattle
Beneath an unequivocal stance against queer sexual orientation lies a deep insecurity about the Christian right's position in American politics.
September 5, 2017
Clint Smith
Affirmative Action as Reparations
For affirmative action to survive, we need to rethink what it is meant to do and who it is meant to serve.
July 18, 2017
Jeet Heer
Mitch McConnell: We’ll always have Neil Gorsuch.
June 27, 2017
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
The Supreme Court’s Incredible Privileging of Religion
In obliging the state to directly aid Trinity Lutheran and other churches, the Court is allowing the religious right to have their cake and eat it, too.
June 26, 2017
Ryu Spaeth
Trump’s travel ban was always going to get a sympathetic hearing at the Supreme Court.
June 26, 2017
Sarah Jones
Secularism had a bad day at the Supreme Court.
June 26, 2017
Scott Lemieux
How the Supreme Court Screwed Obamacare
That Republicans are on the verge of repealing the law can be partly attributed to the tortured legal reasoning of Chief Justice John Roberts.
June 19, 2017
Clio Chang
The Supreme Court just took up a case that could be a huge blow to Republicans.
June 9, 2017
David Dayen
Trump’s Judicial Picks Are Keeping Republicans Happy—and Quiet
In a rare show of competency, he's tapped five times as many judges as Obama had at this point—and conservatives are delighted.
May 23, 2017
Scott Lemieux
Why Clarence Thomas’s Rulings on Race Are so Idiosyncratic
The conservative justice this week joined the court’s four liberals in striking down two gerrymandered districts in North Carolina. How come?
May 16, 2017
Alex Shephard
Merrick Garland now has a lifetime appointment as a political prop.
May 15, 2017
Graham Vyse
The Supreme Court just delivered a blow to Republicans’ racist voter ID strategy.
April 24, 2017
Scott Lemieux
The 2016 Election Could Have Killed the Death Penalty
Instead, our broken system may well be entrenched for more than a generation.
April 18, 2017
Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Neil Gorsuch Is Poised to Swing a Landmark Church-State Case
The Supreme Court on Wednesday is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case that could tip the balance of power towards religion over secularism.
April 7, 2017
Brian Beutler
Sorry, Mitch McConnell, THIS was the most consequential decision of your career.
April 7, 2017
Scott Lemieux
The Supreme Court Will Never Be the Same
Neil Gorsuch has been confirmed by the Senate. The filibuster is dead. And no one knows what happens next.
April 6, 2017
Brian Beutler
Mitch McConnell Abolished the Filibuster. Good!
There can be no more fitting capstone to the Senate majority leader's legacy of norm-breaking. And it will level the playing field once again.
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