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Moore v. Harper is a test of whether this Supreme Court can ever be trusted with power.
What is art? The Christian right wants that question to be decided by the Supreme Court in 303 Creative v. Elenis.
Arguments in United States v. Texas dwelled on whether to upend one of the judiciary’s longstanding procedures in order to neutralize the most reactionary judges.
Judge Drew Tipton’s order in United States v. Texas is completely lawless. Thus far, the Supreme Court has given him a pass.
All they do is win, win, win, no matter what. So why are America’s most powerful lawyers so unhappy?
The program is almost certainly legal, but that fact is unlikely to persuade a judiciary dominated by his partisan foes.
The anti-Medicaid arguments in Health and Hospital Corporation v. Talevski appeared to be too much even for this Court.
Brackeen v. Haaland attacks a 44-year-old law enacted to halt cultural genocide.
Health and Hospital Corporation v. Talevski is the single greatest threat to America’s social safety net since Paul Ryan.
The Supreme Court’s abortion decision could help some Democrats in tight midterm contests. But will it be enough?
Not that anything is likely to stop them from doing it anyway.
Graham v. Fulton County asks a highly partisan Supreme Court to sabotage a criminal investigation into the Big Lie.
There’s a glaring flaw in the Supreme Court lawsuits attacking affirmative action.
The Fifth Circuit’s opinion in Community Financial v. CFPB is completely incoherent.
On October 25, Ian answered questions from our contributors.
One of the stupidest chapters in recent American legal history comes to a close.
National Pork Producers v. Ross presents difficult questions about when one state’s laws can impact life in other states.
Californians passed a landmark law that bans cages for pigs. Now the Supreme Court could overturn it.
A Supreme Court case asks just how far one state can go to change life in the other 49 states.
Gonzalez v. Google is a high-stakes case about what we actually see when we go online.
Alabama hoped to destroy a key prong of the Voting Rights Act. It’s probably going to walk away with a smaller victory.
But it isn’t sure how.
Republicans are laying a path to gut abortion rights after Election Day.
Merrill v. Milligan could eliminate one of the few remaining nationwide safeguards against rigged legislative maps.
Sackett v. EPA may prove to be the most significant attack on America’s clean water laws since the 1970s.
The Republican justices who overruled Roe v. Wade are only getting started.
Even Trump’s own appointees had no patience for the rogue judge who sabotaged the DOJ investigation into the former president.
How “the sense of defeat over the Black freedom struggle” shaped the Supreme Court justice’s thinking.
The Fifth Circuit wants to put Texas Republicans in charge of social media platforms.
The Supreme Court disposes of the Yeshiva University case with an implicit threat.
This 15-week proposed ban isn’t about “late-term” abortions.
Yeshiva University v. YU Pride Alliance is a genuinely difficult case about just how much immunity religious institutions should have from the law.
The Justice Department files an extraordinarily savvy response to the Trump judge’s “special master” order.
Trump Judge Aileen Cannon’s order is egregiously wrong and could be overturned on appeal. But it helps Trump run out the clock.
Judge Reed O’Connor’s latest decision is more nuanced than his previous work, but it is still a disaster for public health.
Preliminary data suggests that enthusiasm is up among women and young voters in the midterms.
Did we learn nothing from James Comey?
It’s easy to secure court orders blocking major policies when you can choose your own judges.
Trump is possibly in legal jeopardy, but we don’t know yet what charges he could face, if any at all.
Ballot measures could shore up — or obliterate — abortion rights.