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The debate has long tapped into American resentments and anxieties. The Supreme Court’s decision may quiet one controversy, but new battles rage.
What America will lose, now that affirmative action is effectively gone.
The Supreme Court just effectively ended colleges’ ability to consider race in admissions. Here’s what could happen next.
Six justices decided not to burn the right of the people to govern themselves to the ground.
Anti-LGBTQ Republicans are governing like they have no adult supervision. At least for now, the courts aren’t tolerating that behavior.
The Court’s decision in United States v. Texas stops rogue judges from seizing control of law enforcement.
Clarence Thomas’s majority opinion ensures that innocent people will spend years behind bars.
A new ProPublica report renews questions about justices’ disclosure of gifts that could pose a conflict of interest.
A rogue federal court has spent years harassing a prominent civil rights advocate.
Julie Rikelman, the abortion rights movement’s top Supreme Court litigator, will serve on the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
A landmark statute protecting Indian tribes from cultural genocide is upheld.
If Cannon remains the judge on this case, it is unlikely that special counsel Jack Smith will convict Trump — no matter how strong the evidence may be.
The Supreme Court voted not to make federal Medicaid law virtually unenforceable.
The Court’s new voting rights decision is one of the most reassuring opinions it’s handed down in years.
The Supreme Court sided with pigs. Will California?
The Court’s new decision is a significant blow to workers’ right to strike.
Some Supreme Court justices just want to watch the world burn.
The Court took a huge bite out of the Clean Water Act.
Remember that guy who tried to ban mifepristone? He’s back.
Clarence Thomas did something right, for a change.
The Court appears to be backing away from its “shadow docket.”
South Carolina’s lawyers propose a rule that could make it virtually impossible to challenge racial gerrymanders.
Upholding Prop 12 could create a bold new era of animal advocacy, but only if we go further.
Why is Texas so good at changing policy for the whole US?
The justices just did something very unusual: They didn’t try to make themselves even more powerful.
What will the courts do if House Republicans push the United States into a default?
A case on the Court’s “shadow docket” could strike down state and local bans on AR-15s and similar weapons.
We’re keeping a running list as more and more reports continue to pile up.
Who watches the philosopher kings with lifetime appointments?
The murder case against Richard Glossip is so weak that even Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general says he should not be executed.
The Court has spent the last several years claiming the other two branches’ powers for itself.
The justices unintentionally make the case for more ethics rules that bind the Supreme Court.
The justices hand down the first decision in the mifepristone litigation saga that is not completely unhinged.
The Court can’t seem to figure out how to decide one of the easiest cases it’s ever had to consider.
The case for leaving some top college applications to chance.
The justices appeared uncharacteristically cautious in a high-stakes case about religion in the workplace.
By quietly accepting luxuries from a GOP megadonor, Thomas likely ran afoul of federal ethics law.
Groff v. DeJoy could give religious conservatives unprecedented power to make demands from their employers.
Friday’s order doesn’t mean much, but it does mean that mifepristone is still legal, for now.
Republican judges claim the power to second-guess the FDA’s scientific judgments.