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U.s. Supreme Court
The Idea of Presidential Immunity Is Not As Ridiculous As You’ve Heard Still, Trump will probably lose in the Supreme Court. But he might win in the political arena.
The Texas Immigration Law Is Doomed SB-4 makes for compelling political theater, but the Supreme Court will reject it.
early and often
Mar. 23, 2024
McConnell Stole a Supreme Court Seat. Is That the Norm Now? Debate over whether Sotomayor should retire reveals control of both the White House and Senate may be necessary to confirm anyone going forward.
early and often
Mar. 4, 2024
Supreme Court Says Colorado Cannot Kick Trump Off the Ballot States will not be able to declare Trump ineligible to hold office based on the Constitution’s post–Civil War era insurrectionist ban.
The 14th Amendment Effort Only Ended Up Helping Trump It was a wild law-school hypothetical sprung to life. It only ended up giving Trump’s candidacy a boost.
Supreme Court Doesn’t Give a Damn About Jack Smith’s Timeline —and It Shouldn’t The result is disappointing to many (including me), but it’s the only proper way for judges to do their job.
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 Supreme Court’s Silver-Bullet Solution to the 14th Amendment Problem Colorado and Maine have taken Trump off the ballot. The Court wants to put an end to this, now.
By Elie Honig
early and often
Jan. 3, 2024
2024 Drama Kicks Off With Shutdown Threat and Trump Showdowns With congressional funding cliffs, GOP presidential primaries, and Trump court decisions, January and February are sure to be chaotic.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Dec. 20, 2023
Supreme Court Shouldn’t Let State Judges Set 2024 Ballot The U.S. Supreme Court could avoid a definitive call on Colorado’s ruling disqualifying Trump. But that would just unleash more election chaos.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
July 20, 2023
Ramaswamy’s Supreme Court List Encourages Judicial Grandstanding The 2024 candidate is putting out lists of potential judicial nominees with extremist records, including lower-court picks. It’s a dangerous idea.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
July 3, 2023
Why Democrats Should Make the Supreme Court a Priority in 2024 After Roe v. Wade was reversed, Democrats learned how damaging a conservative Court could be — and how rewarding it might be to fight.
By Ed Kilgore
Fallout From SCOTUS Affirmative Action, Student-Loan Decisions: Live Updates We’re tracking the news and commentary regarding the controversial decisions and what impact they may have.
By Chas Danner
early and often
June 23, 2023
Supreme Court Says Texas Can’t Boss Biden Around on Deportation Policy It’s a setback for Ken Paxton and other state-level Republicans who are constantly in court challenging administration policies.
By Ed Kilgore
affirmative action
June 12, 2023
Affirmative Action Never Had a Chance The conservative backlash to the civil-rights era began immediately — and now it’s nearly complete.
By Zak Cheney-Rice
early and often
June 8, 2023
Supreme Court Passes Up Chance to Keep Gutting Voting Rights Act In a surprise, a 5-4 majority including Roberts and Kavanaugh struck down GOP-drawn congressional districts challenged by Black Alabama voters.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
May 24, 2023
DeSantis’s Weak Supreme Court Pitch Is No Threat to Trump The Florida governor can’t outdo Trump’s transformation of the Court, so he’s just promising to keep it going longer.
By Ed Kilgore
Warhol Against the Supreme Court and Beyond What a renewed obsession with copyright says about the state of artistic appropriation.
By Jerry Saltz
life after roe
Jan. 20, 2023
What the Supreme Court Left Out of Its Dobbs -Leak Report The investigation failed to identify the leaker of the draft opinion — and the justices got light treatment.
By Irin Carmon
early and often
Oct. 5, 2022
Justice Jackson’s Originalist Case for Racial Equality Ketanji Brown Jackson didn’t buy Alabama’s argument that the 14th Amendment prohibits the state from following the Voting Rights Act.
By Ed Kilgore
u.s. supreme court
Oct. 4, 2022
The Supreme Court Is Back and Ready to Do More Damage If reproductive freedom was the major casualty of the last term of the Court, racial justice could be most at risk now.
By Ed Kilgore
u.s. supreme court
June 30, 2022
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case That Could Gut Voting Rights Odds are good the conservative majority will confirm total legislative control of redistricting and (more alarmingly) of all election rules.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
June 30, 2022
Supreme Court Ends Term by Sabotaging Fight Against Climate Change The finale to this devastating term was a landmark decision by conservative justices limiting the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions.
By Ed Kilgore
u.s. supreme court
June 27, 2022
Supreme Court Takes a Knee for School Prayer The Court’s conservatives struck another blow against the separation of church and state by ruling to protect highly performative prayer.
By Ed Kilgore
life after roe
June 26, 2022
Outrage, Uncertainty, and Instant Abortion Bans After R oe v. Wade Overturned Some Republican leaders are already calling for a nationwide ban, while protesters assemble outside the Supreme Court to express their outrage.
By Intelligencer Staff
‘Things Will Be Fine’: GOP Insiders Doubt Overturning Roe v. Wade Will Cost Them They don’t seem all that worried the Supreme Court’s decision to end the right to an abortion will come back to haunt them in the midterms.
By Ben Jacobs
life after roe
June 24, 2022
John Roberts Had a Vague Plan to Only Half-Kill Abortion Rights The chief justice said he preferred a “more measured course” in his Dobbs concurrence. His new standard would have allowed most abortion bans anyway.
By Ed Kilgore
life after roe
June 24, 2022
Clarence Thomas Threatens Contraception, LGBTQ+ Rights Could Be Next to Go In his concurrence to the Dobbs decision ending the right to an abortion, Justice Thomas said the Court should “reconsider” other precedents too.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
June 21, 2022
Supreme Court Strikes Another Blow Against Church-State Separation The Court’s conservative majority ruled that Maine can’t exclude religious schools from a state tuition program. Are mandatory vouchers next?
By Ed Kilgore
january 6 committee
June 16, 2022
Did Ginni Thomas Tell John Eastman Supreme Court Secrets? Emails show Trump’s lawyer John Eastman hoped the Supreme Court would help overturn the 2020 election. And he was in contact with one justice’s wife.
By Ed Kilgore
life after roe
May 3, 2022
Republicans Too Upset About Leak to Celebrate Abortion Win Conservatives can’t talk about the Supreme Court ending reproductive rights right now, but please ask again after the midterms.
By Ed Kilgore
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
‘We’ve Made It’: Ketanji Brown Jackson Celebrates Historic Confirmation Lawmakers and other guests attended an event honoring Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation on the White House’s South Lawn.
By Nia Prater
Senate Confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson, First Black Woman on Supreme Court Jackson’s fortitude in the face of nasty GOP attacks elevated her already high reputation and helped secure her bipartisan Senate confirmation.
By Ed Kilgore
transgender rights
Apr. 5, 2022
How Texas Became the Most Virulently Anti-Trans State in America The governor’s order to investigate gender-affirming care as child abuse was years in the making.
By Roxanna Asgarian
ketanji brown jackson
Apr. 4, 2022
Jackson Gets Two More Republican Backers As Senate Votes Near Lisa Murkowski’s support was no great surprise, but Mitt Romney’s was good news for the future justice.
By Ed Kilgore
u.s. supreme court
Mar. 30, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmation Will Be (Barely) Bipartisan Senator Susan Collins said she backs Jackson for the Supreme Court. That should give the judge at least one Republican vote.
By Ed Kilgore
QAnon’s Takeover of the Republican Party Is Virtually Complete It would be hilarious if it didn’t involve people in positions of real influence.
By Jacob Silverman
Ginni Thomas and the Conservative Rot at the Supreme Court Her deranged texts don’t just spur ethical and legal questions, but reflect much larger problems among the conservative majority.
By Ankush Khardori
Does the Supreme Court Deserve Ketanji Brown Jackson? The first Black female justice would lend the Court more credibility. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
By Irin Carmon
u.s. supreme court
Mar. 24, 2022
GOP’s Antics at Jackson Hearings Weren’t Just an Appeal to QAnon Extremist dog whistling aside, Republicans senators’ primary goal was to paint Democrats as soft on crime and hostile to parents and children.
By Ed Kilgore
u.s. supreme court
Mar. 23, 2022
Ted Cruz Outdid Himself in the Jerkiness Department By going out of control while asking tendentious questions, the Texan put on an embarrassing display, presumably for the MAGA galleries.
By Ed Kilgore
Ted Cruz Brings Culture War to Ketanji Brown Jackson Hearings The senator grilled the Supreme Court nominee on the picture book Antiracist Baby as part of a dubious attempt to link her to critical race theory.
By Ed Kilgore
ketanji brown jackson
Mar. 21, 2022
Jackson Confirmation Hearings Off to Smooth Start, But Republican Attacks Begin GOP senators previewed culture-war attack lines and memories of Brett Kavanaugh. But Judge Jackson seems very well prepared.
By Ed Kilgore
crime and punishment
Mar. 4, 2022
Supreme Court Reinstates Death Penalty for Boston Marathon Bomber The decision creates a dilemma for Joe Biden, who opposes the federal death penalty even as his Justice Department sought it for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
By Ed Kilgore
California Turns Texas’s Vigilante Tactics on Gunmakers Democratic lawmakers are protesting the Texas abortion law by pushing a bill that incentivizes citizen lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
By Ed Kilgore
The States Shoring Up Abortion Rights for the End of Roe While the focus is on GOP-run states preparing for the Supreme Court to allow new abortion restrictions, pro-choice lawmakers are making moves too.
By Ed Kilgore
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
DeSantis Could Be Haunted by Florida’s ‘Generous’ Abortion Ban The governor is backing a 15-week abortion ban, which Republicans are billing as a compromise. But his strategy could anger the party’s extremists.
By Ed Kilgore
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