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  1. supreme court
    House Hearing Examines The National Security Implications Of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
    AOC Is Trying to Impeach Justices Thomas and AlitoBoth the Supreme Court justices have been mired by ethics scandals in the past year.
    By Olivia Craighead
  2. just asking questions
    Did the Supreme Court Kill Every Case Against Trump?Law professor Steve Vladeck on where a radical ruling leaves the former president’s prospects in court.
    By Nia Prater
  3. just asking questions
    The Coming ‘Mini Trial’ of Donald TrumpLegal analyst Norm Eisen says that even after the Supreme Court’s immunity decision, Trump faces some dark days in federal court.
    By Benjamin Hart
  4. power
    Trump holds rally in Washington D.C as "Save America March"
    What Did the Supreme Court Just Do for Trump?The justices “bent over backward to make it more difficult for prosecutors” to hold the former president accountable for January 6.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  5. presidential immunity
    Supreme Court Holds Investiture Ceremony For Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
    Supreme Court Gives Trump Partial Win in Immunity CaseThe former president isn’t off the hook, but it’s increasingly unlikely that his election-subversion trial will take place before November.
    By Nia Prater
  6. just asking questions
    Will the Infamous Sacklers Finally Face a Reckoning?Empire of Pain author Patrick Radden Keefe discusses a Supreme Court ruling that could change the reviled family’s fortunes.
    By Benjamin Hart
  7. the law
    Trump supporters storm Capitol building in Washington
    Why the Supreme Court Just Threw Hundreds of January 6 Convictions Into DoubtThe decision in the Fischer case will have huge implications for Trump — and put Jack Smith in a bind.
    By Elie Honig
  8. life after roe
    Supreme Court Abortion Protest
    The Supreme Court’s Idaho Abortion Ruling Is a Mixed BagThe decision allows emergency abortions to continue in the state but did not rule on the case’s merits, so the legal battle isn’t over.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  9. power
    Supreme Court
    The Supreme Court Keeps Guns Out of Domestic Abusers’ HandsThe justices upheld a federal law banning people under domestic-violence restraining orders from owning firearms.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  10. life after roe
    Appeals Court Keeps Abortion Pill Mifepristone Available, But With Restrictions
    Good News: The Supreme Court Won’t Restrict Abortion PillsThe justices unanimously rejected anti-abortion doctors’ challenge to the drug mifepristone.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  11. feuds
    Martha-Ann Alito Is BeefingWith basically everyone but her husband, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Robin Givhan, you’re up next.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  12. freak flag fly
    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lies In Repose At Supreme Court
    Martha-Ann Alito Is a Real Flag FreakSupreme Court Justice Sam Alito’s wife was caught on tape plotting to fly an anti-Pride flag that reads “shame” in Italian, among other wacky ideas.
    By Matt Stieb
  13. life after roe
    Texas Sen. Wendy Davis filibuster of abortion bills
    Sleeping Giants: How the Liberal Establishment Got Blindsided on AbortionA new book charts the fall of Roe and the failures of the liberal Establishment.
    By Sarah Jones
  14. supreme court
    Why the NRA Beat New York on ‘Murder Insurance’The Supreme Court ruled that the state’s insurance watchdog was “coercive” in banning a controversial product.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  15. blame game
    Samuel Alito
    Alito: Seriously, This Is All My Wife’s FaultThe Supreme Court justice says he won’t recuse himself over Martha-Ann Alito’s sincere love of flags.
    By Matt Stieb
  16. the national interest
    Alito’s Flag Excuse Is a License for Partisan GrandstandingExplaining away the issue by blaming his wife creates a loophole so big you could drive a pro-Trump billboard through it.
    By Jonathan Chait
  17. supreme court
    Group Photograph Of U.S. Supreme Court Justices
    Alito Home’s Flag Is Symbol of New Partisan Era at Supreme CourtIt’s increasingly clear this is the Alito-Thomas Court, not the Roberts Court.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. trump on trial
    Trump Had a Good Day in One CourtForced to listen to David Pecker in Manhattan, the Supreme Court offered hope in Washington.
    By Andrew Rice and Nia Prater
  19. life after roe
    How Close to Death Must a Person Be to Get an Abortion?The Supreme Court will decide whether hospitals can turn away pregnant people experiencing medical emergencies.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  20. as told to
    Tents in a camp of homeless people in Utah
    She Was Fined Thousands of Dollars for Sleeping OutsideA formerly unhoused woman just wants to get back on her feet, while a major Supreme Court case will determine if her fines stand.
    As told to Claire Lampen
  21. life after roe
    Donald Trump
    Trump’s Abortion Dodge Won’t Work in 2024The man who made the reversal of Roe v. Wade possible is now seeking to neutral the abortion issue in his own fight with Joe Biden. It won’t work.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. life after roe
    US-JUSTICE-ABORTION-HEALTH
    What the Supreme Court Said About Abortion-Pill AccessMost justices seemed skeptical of restricting the drug, while Alito and Thomas floated a 19th-century law that could ban abortion nationwide.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  23. the law
    Supreme Court
    The 14th Amendment Effort Only Ended Up Helping TrumpIt was a wild law-school hypothetical sprung to life. It only ended up giving Trump’s candidacy a boost.
    By Elie Honig
  24. court appearances
    Trump Finally Had a Good Day in CourtThe Supreme Court steps into the presidential election and not for the last time.
    By Andrew Rice
  25. exhibit a
    It’s Maddening That the Supreme Court Could Decide 2024You can thank one liberal pipe dream and one overly cautious Justice Department.
    By Ankush Khardori
  26. obits
    The Supreme Court Sandra Day O’Connor Left Behind Is Dead, TooHer successors abandoned the principles of pragmatism and compromise she represented.
    By Cristian Farias
  27. obits
    Sandra Day O’Connor Has Died at 93She was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  28. power
    SCOTUS Will Decide Whether Domestic Abusers Can Own GunsWomen in the U.S. are five times more likely to be killed by intimate partners who have access to firearms.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  29. housing
    Rent Stabilization Isn’t Going to the Supreme Court This TimeThe justices declined to hear a case against rent regulation brought by New York landlord groups. But there will be others.
    By Clio Chang
  30. exhibit a
    Menendez Followed the Supreme Court’s Bribery PlaybookAnd thanks to inaction by Congress, he might beat the case.
    By Ankush Khardori
  31. exhibit a
    Do Liberals Think the Supreme Court Will Save Us From Trump?Because that would have to happen to disqualify him from running under the 14th Amendment.
    By Ankush Khardori
  32. supreme court
    Clarence Thomas Formally Acknowledges His Lavish LifestyleThe justice’s new financial-disclosure form cops to some of the fancy trips conservative donors have funded for him.
    By Matt Stieb
  33. what we know
    A Quick Guide to Justice Clarence Thomas’s Ethics ScandalsWe’re keeping track of the recent pileup of revelations regarding secret financial arrangements between the justice and his rich friends.
    By Chas Danner
  34. the national interest
    The Democrats Can’t Wave Away Their Hunter Biden ProblemHow the party can clean up the Supreme Court and address the president’s son’s ethics scandals.
    By Jonathan Chait
  35. the rent is too damn high
    Are the Landlords Bluffing?They say thousands of rent stabilized apartments are too cheap and too far gone to rent. You’ll just have to take their word for it.
    By Clio Chang
  36. the law
    The Overlooked Solution to the Radical Supreme CourtConservative justices will rule for another generation. The only hope of liberals is to seize state courts and launch a legal counterrevolution.
    By Lara Bazelon and James Forman
  37. the national interest
    The Last Republican PoliticianCan John Roberts stave off a Democratic assault on the Supreme Court?
    By Jonathan Chait
  38. say gay rights
    Michael Imperioli ‘Forbids Bigots and Homophobes’ from Watching His Work“Thank you Supreme Court for allowing me to discriminate and exclude those who I don’t agree with.”
    By Charu Sinha
  39. supreme court
    The Supreme Court Can’t Kill Student-Loan ReliefThe ruling today knocked down just one part of the White House’s federal debt-relief plan, but what’s left will be bigger than any onetime amnesty.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  40. student debt
    Supreme Court Blocks Biden’s Student-Debt Relief PlanThe 6-3 decision arrives one day after the Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions.
    By Bindu Bansinath
  41. exhibit a
    The End of Affirmative Action Is Only the BeginningYet again, the Supreme Court’s conservatives just get rid of precedents that they don’t like.
    By Ankush Khardori
  42. power
    Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action in College AdmissionsStudents of color will bear the brunt of the impact.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  43. exhibit a
    The Supreme Court Rejects a Lunatic Legal Theory of ElectionsA 6-3 ruling tossed a conservative idea that could have allowed state legislatures to overturn elections.
    By Ankush Khardori
  44. life after roe
    What’s an Ex–Abortion Doctor in Alabama to Do?Fight for better pregnancies and births for those who have no choice.
    By Irin Carmon
  45. power
    Ginni and Clarence Thomas: A Love StoryHow a fiercely loyal couple saved one another, raged against their enemies, and brought the American experiment to the brink.
    By Kerry Howley
  46. early and often
    DeSantis Knocks Trump Supreme Court Picks As Not Extreme EnoughThe Florida governor claims he would have gone with justices even more like Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
    By Ed Kilgore
  47. life after roe
    What the Abortion-Pill Decision Reveals About the Shadow DocketThe author of a new book on the Supreme Court’s backdoor-lawmaking system breaks down what it is and why Samuel Alito is so mad at its critics.
    By Irin Carmon
  48. early and often
    It’s Neil Gorsuch’s Turn for a Financial ScandalWith 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
  49. life after roe
    Supreme Court Preserves Full Access to Abortion Pill, For NowMifepristone will remain fully available in states were abortion is still legal, at least while a longer court battle over its fate proceeds.
    By Chas Danner
  50. it gets worse
    Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Clarence Thomas’s Mother’s HouseThe Supreme Court justice didn’t report that he had been paid by Harlan Crow, almost certainly violating the law.
    By Matt Stieb
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