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John Roberts
early and often
Feb. 8, 2024
Supreme Court Justices Fear Red States Will Label Biden an Insurrectionist Too Republicans accuse Biden of behavior equivalent to Trump’s every time they disagree with him.
the national interest
July 3, 2023
The Last Republican Politician Can John Roberts stave off a Democratic assault on the Supreme Court?
By Jonathan Chait
The End of Affirmative Action Is Only the Beginning Yet again, the Supreme Court’s conservatives just get rid of precedents that they don’t like.
By Ankush Khardori
student loans
Mar. 6, 2023
By Eric Levitz
happy halloween
Oct. 16, 2022
By Bethy Squires
life after roe
May 8, 2022
By Chas Danner
life after roe
May 3, 2022
The Leak Is Good, Actually The Supreme Court is just another partisan institution. It should be treated like one.
By David Klion
What If the Supreme Court Doesn’t Overturn Roe v. Wade ? Roe certainly seems doomed, but the Court has surprised us on abortion before. If the conservative majority falters, the fallout could be tremendous.
By Ed Kilgore
Supreme Court Keeps Eroding the Voting Rights Act Without so much as a hearing, conservative justices restored an Alabama congressional map designed to minimize Black representation.
By Ed Kilgore
Stephen Breyer and the End of the Apolitical Supreme Court Even John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett claim to be above politics. But Breyer may be the last justice to actually believe it.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Jan. 18, 2022
Neil Gorsuch Reportedly Refused John Roberts’s Request to Wear a Mask The conservative justice’s obstinacy has forced Sonia Sotomayor to work remotely.
By Irin Carmon
supreme court
Dec. 27, 2021
Why Is John Roberts So Popular Among Democrats? The chief justice’s enduring appeal suggests the Supreme Court may be able to gut Roe without great cost to its reputation.
By Eric Levitz
Partisanship Put Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court. Now She’s Against It. The justice bemoaned perceptions of the Supreme Court following an introduction by Mitch McConnell, who made the confirmation process hyperpartisan.
By Ed Kilgore
DOJ Sues Texas Over Blatantly Unconstitutional Abortion Ban The opening bell of a long fight to save women’s constitutional rights against a conservative counterrevolution.
By Ed Kilgore
The Supreme Court’s Radical Texas Abortion Law Ruling & What Comes Next A guide to the Texas abortion ban’s “vigilante” enforcement system, the Supreme Court’s shocking response, and the coming flood of legal battles.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
Aug. 17, 2021
Democrats Update the John Lewis Voting Rights Act Drafted to anticipate and overcome recent Supreme Court decisions, the bill still faces a huge hurdle in passage.
By Ed Kilgore
u.s. supreme court
July 2, 2021
Supreme Court Won’t Expand Right to Discriminate Against Same-Sex Couples It’s a setback for those hoping for an expanded zone of safety for religious-based objections to serving LGBTQ customers, but just for now.
By Ed Kilgore
u.s. supreme court
July 1, 2021
Supreme Court Smiles on Voter Suppression and Big Donors After showing caution all term, the conservative majority closed by eroding the Voting Rights Act and threatening campaign-finance-reform efforts.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
June 17, 2021
Supreme Court Keeps Its Powder Dry on Religious Liberty The ruling in favor of a Catholic foster-care agency was a setback for LGBTQ equality, but conservative justices could have gone much further.
By Ed Kilgore
voting rights
May 30, 2021
Democrats Need a New Plan to Defend Voting Rights The outlook is dim for voting-rights legislation. DOJ enforcement and voter mobilization may be Democrats’ best shot for defending democracy.
By Ed Kilgore
u.s. supreme court
May 17, 2021
Is Roe v. Wade Now Doomed? We’ve been here before, when the Supreme Court surprised everyone in 1992 by upholding the right to choose. But this new challenge doesn’t look good.
By Ed Kilgore
Supreme Court Accepts Case That Could Overturn State Gun Laws A New York concealed-carry licensing regulation that requires demonstration of a distinctive need for self-defense outside the home could soon fall.
By Ed Kilgore
Why Is the Supreme Court Hesitating on Abortion? With a solidly conservative bloc on the bench, a decision on whether to hear a big case is all the more mysterious.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment trial
Jan. 25, 2021
Senate Republicans Don’t Even Want to Have an Impeachment Trial Democrats will force the trial to go forward, but the odds of a conviction are low and getting lower.
By Ed Kilgore
Can Biden and Democrats Protect Abortion Rights From Trump’s Judges? The worst was averted when Trump lost and Democrats won control of the Senate. But an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court could strike soon.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment trial
Jan. 19, 2021
Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial Will Be a Democratic Production The question of whether a former president can be tried and then banned from future office will hang over Trump’s second trial from the get-go.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 15, 2021
Who Will Be in Charge of Trump’s Impeachment Trial? Why it may not be Chief Justice John Roberts this time around.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Nov. 10, 2020
Roberts and Kavanaugh Signal They May Save Obamacare Two members of the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc indicate even if part of Obamacare is declared unconstitutional, the bulk of it will survive.
By Ed Kilgore
What Donald Trump Wants the Supreme Court to Do to Help Him Win Trump may ask the Supreme Court’s conservative majority to kill ballots postmarked by Election Day but received later.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Oct. 27, 2020
Trump’s Justices Show How They Might Help Him in Contested Election Gorsuch defends Republican state legislatures’ power over election disputes. Kavanaugh echoes Trump’s attacks on mail-in ballots. Be very afraid.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Oct. 19, 2020
Supreme Court Stops GOP Effort to Reject Tons of Ballots in Pennsylvania The 4-4 decision was a setback for Republicans, but it might have gone differently if Amy Coney Barrett were already confirmed.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Sept. 21, 2020
How a New Conservative Justice Could Affect the Supreme Court A conservative Court would move to the right even more than arithmetic suggests on key issues like abortion as Roberts abandons his balancing role.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Sept. 9, 2020
Trump Adds Cotton, Cruz, and Hawley to His Supreme Court Prospect List If you think a Justice Kavanaugh is bad, consider Justice Cotton, Justice Cruz, or Justice Hawley.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
Aug. 13, 2020
Supreme Court Lets Rhode Island Relax Voting by Mail Requirements After refusing to require accommodations for voting in a pandemic, the Court did allow states to do so themselves.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Aug. 6, 2020
Pence Goes After John Roberts As ‘Disappointment to Conservatives’ In an interview with a Christian right journalist, the VP promises that Trump will consummate a judicial counterrevolution in his second term.
By Ed Kilgore
vision 2020
July 13, 2020
Can Trump Make the Supreme Court a Campaign Issue Again? Trump-appointed justices didn’t give conservatives everything they hoped for. That only raises the stakes in November.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
June 30, 2020
Roberts Rejoins Supreme Court Conservatives to Boost Religious Schools It was a relatively narrow decision but it showed where a future Supreme Court committed to expanding religious privileges might go.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
June 29, 2020
Supreme Court Restricts Independence of CFPB, But Doesn’t Kill It It was a glass-half-full, glass-half-empty decision that displeased those who want to kill or insulate independent agencies.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
June 29, 2020
Supreme Court Rejects Louisiana Abortion Restrictions In the end, Chief Justice Roberts couldn’t go along with a quick reversal of a recent precedent.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump, Intent on Self-Destruction, Asks Supreme Court to Kill Obamacare When you’re struggling in the polls amid a pandemic, renewing your fight to strip health coverage from millions of Americans isn’t a great move.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
June 18, 2020
Supreme Court Thwarts Trump’s Effort to Kill DACA The Court rebuked Trump for the second time this week, blocking him from ending the program that protects Dreamers from deportation, for now.
By Ed Kilgore
The Supreme Court’s Unlikely Intersectionality Gorsuch and Roberts may never admit it, but with today’s ruling they rejected the pitting of historically marginalized groups against each other.
By Irin Carmon
the national circus
Apr. 9, 2020
Frank Rich: John Roberts’s Wisconsin Shame The Chief Justice’s latest assault on minority voting rights does not bode well for November.
By Frank Rich
supreme court
Mar. 4, 2020
Roberts Rebukes Schumer for ‘Threatening’ Statement to Kavanaugh and Gorsuch The Chief Justice called out Schumer’s claim that the Trump appointees “won’t know what hit” them if they uphold a law restricting abortion rights.
By Matt Stieb
The Next Big Abortion Case Comes Down to John Roberts Clinics and their attorneys must appeal to Chief Justice Roberts, a devout Catholic who has never voted against an abortion restriction.
By Irin Carmon
impeachment
Jan. 30, 2020
Roberts Won’t Let Paul Take Senate Down the Whistleblower Rabbit Hole Paul’s question, which Roberts refused to read, named the whistleblower. But the broader issue is the effort to make Trump’s trial focus on Democrats.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 22, 2020
The Trump Trial Isn’t a Criminal Proceeding, and the Senators Aren’t Jurors It’s easier to understand an impeachment trial via analogies to criminal proceedings, but it’s dangerously inaccurate, too.
By Ed Kilgore
impeachment
Jan. 21, 2020
Mitch McConnell’s Impeachment Trial Strategy McConnell wants the trial to unfold rapidly, but has backup plans in case things go awry and the Senate agrees to hear witnesses.
By Ed Kilgore
trump impeachment
Jan. 16, 2020
By Adam K. Raymond
impeachment
Jan. 13, 2020
It’s Time for Pelosi and McConnell to Make Some Big Impeachment Trial Decisions The impeachment trial schedule should be set by week’s end, and the initial skirmishing in the Senate over rules will soon begin.
By Ed Kilgore
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