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Neil Gorsuch
early and often
Apr. 25, 2023
It’s Neil Gorsuch’s Turn for a Financial Scandal With Clarence Thomas under scrutiny, a report states that Gorsuch sold a home to a major litigator whose firm is frequently before the Supreme Court.
By Matt Stieb
If Sarah Palin Wins, Fox News Could Lose Why both liberals and conservatives should be careful about opening up libel law.
By Andrew Rice
Democrats Are Playing Catch-up on Supreme Court Nominations Republicans have appointed the lion’s share of justices in recent decades. Biden needs to make the most of his rare opportunity.
By Ed Kilgore
Neil Gorsuch Wear a Mask Challenge As the Supreme Court tries to quell a COVID controversy, the conservative justice remains maskless.
By Irin Carmon
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
the body politic
Dec. 2, 2021
The Betrayal of Roe Decades of neglect and cowardice have brought this country to the precipice.
By Rebecca Traister
u.s. supreme court
Oct. 5, 2021
Supreme Court Could Go Totally Extremist This Term In at least three areas – abortion, guns, and federal regulatory powers – the Court could take a big and consequential leap to the right.
By Ed Kilgore
u.s. supreme court
Aug. 27, 2021
Breyer’s Retirement Indecision Means Democrats Really Need to Hold the Senate Maybe Breyer will step down next year, but if he doesn’t and Republicans take back the Senate, Mitch McConnell may not let Biden name a successor.
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
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
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
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
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
vision 2020
Dec. 11, 2020
Supreme Court Drop-Kicks Texas Lawsuit to Overturn the Election for Trump A legal effort to keep Trump in power attracted huge Republican support. But the president’s favorite justices wouldn’t even hear it.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Only Credible Legal Strategy Won’t Be Enough It’s possible the Supreme Court will accept Republican efforts to disallow late mail ballots in Pennsylvania. But there aren’t enough votes to matter.
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. 29, 2020
How the Supreme Court Has Already Tinkered With the 2020 Election The Court has deferred to state decisions about mail-ballot deadlines and other election issues, with some conservatives clearly wanting to intervene.
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
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
supreme court
July 27, 2020
Trump’s Next Supreme Court List Could Be Really Extreme Conservatives are again feeling betrayed on abortion and LGBTQ rights. Trump needs to convince them his future picks would be infallibly reactionary.
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
July 8, 2020
Supreme Court Allows Trump Restrictions on Obamacare Contraception Coverage Up to 126,000 women could lose no-cost contraception coverage. The Court also expanded the “ministerial exception” to employee protections.
By Ed Kilgore
Supreme Court Lets States Punish ‘Faithless Electors’ A unanimous Supreme Court found no constitutional sanction for treating presidential electors as free agents.
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 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
interesting times
June 18, 2020
When Is It Time to Claim Victory in the Gay Rights Struggle? The last major obstacle to civil equality was toppled this week — by another Republican-appointed justice.
By Andrew Sullivan
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
lgbtq rights
June 15, 2020
Supreme Court: LGBTQ Workers Protected by Anti-Discrimination Laws The 6-3 decision is a big win for equality, and a big loss for the Trump administration and the Christian right.
By Ed Kilgore
Unlike Democrats, Republicans Have Politically Weaponized Judicial Appointments Of course Mitch McConnell reconvened the Senate in a pandemic to confirm child-judge Justin Walker. The judiciary is his and Trump’s top priority.
By Ed Kilgore
green new deal
Sept. 16, 2019
Another Obstacle for Climate Action: A Conservative Supreme Court A new study suggests SCOTUS could obstruct the Green New Deal just as it once obstructed the original New Deal.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Aug. 26, 2019
Supreme Court Vacancy in 2020 Would Change Everything Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s latest cancer scare offers a reminder of how vulnerable the Supreme Court is to a radical conservative revolution.
By Ed Kilgore
Anti-Abortion Activists Object to State Bans — But Only on Tactics Anti-abortion leaders are discouraging extreme state abortion laws, preferring stealth until the time is ripe for a frontal assault on Roe v. Wade .
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
June 26, 2019
Gorsuch Gives SCOTUS Liberals a Win in Two Criminal-Law Cases His application of Scalia’s strict principles of statutory interpretation, and perhaps a libertarian streak, distinguish Gorsuch from Kavanaugh.
By Ed Kilgore
church-state separation
June 20, 2019
SCOTUS Splits on Church-State Separation in Peace Cross Case While in the minority in the “Peace Cross” decision, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offered an eloquent testimonial for the “wall of separation.”
By Ed Kilgore
presidential pardons
June 17, 2019
Supreme Court Won’t Stop States From Prosecuting Federal Defendants By leaving an exception to double-jeopardy rules in place, the Court did not make it easier for Trump to keep people out of jail via pardons.
By Ed Kilgore
kavanaugh watch
May 27, 2019
Is Justice Kavanaugh As Bad As Democrats Feared? Conservatives’ salvation? Cautious operator? Here’s what we’ve learned so far about the impact Kavanaugh will have on the law, and Americans’ lives.
By Ed Kilgore
Gorsuch and Kavanaugh Aren’t the Georgetown Prep Twins After All The two Trump justices are showing some differences, with Gorsuch acting as the more rigidly conservative jurist. But over time they could converge.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Apr. 23, 2019
Supreme Court Telegraphs Approval for Adding Citizenship Question to Census If the decision goes the way it appears to be going, states with many immigrants will lose federal funds and all sorts of political clout.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Nominee for Deputy AG Won’t Say Brown v. Board Was Rightly Decided The prospective number-two DOJ official, which enforces civil rights laws, wouldn’t endorse the most important Supreme Court civil rights decision.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Apr. 1, 2019
Neil Gorsuch: Eighth Amendment ‘Does Not Guarantee a Prisoner a Painless Death’ SCOTUS ruled that Missouri may execute a man whose medical condition would likely cause him to choke on his own blood during lethal injection.
By Matt Stieb
supreme court
Feb. 20, 2019
Supreme Court Applies Ban on ‘Excessive Fines’ to States and Localities The unanimous decision could have a big impact on state and local government, sparking many lawsuits aimed at fines, fees, and asset seizures.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Feb. 7, 2019
Supreme Court Deals Blow to Anti-Abortion Movement, But It May Only Be Temporary Roberts joined liberals in keeping a lower court from defying Supreme Court precedents. What that means for the future of Roe v. Wade is unclear.
By Ed Kilgore
supreme court
Jan. 16, 2019
By Ed Kilgore
What Will Happen to the Supreme Court in 20 Years? Legal reporter Dahlia Lithwick reveals her prediction for the future of the Supreme Court.
By The Editors
the kavanaugh confirmation
Sept. 17, 2018
Why the Clock Is Ticking on Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination If Brett Kavanaugh isn’t confirmed soon, Trump’s mission to reshape the Supreme Court could get dicier.
By Ed Kilgore
the kavanaugh confirmation
Sept. 17, 2018
Trump Should Have Nominated a Woman to the Supreme Court Trump’s famous vetting process did not protect him from a SCOTUS nominee who may join the president as a presumed sexual predator.
By Ed Kilgore
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