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John J Custer The Supreme Court Is Making America Ungovernable
The West Virginia v. EPA ruling signals a future in which no one in power has the ability to tackle the biggest issues society faces.
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Getty; The Atlantic A Court Without Precedent
The judiciary is supposed to be informed by historical memory, and guided by more than its members’ whims.
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Brooks Kraft / Getty; Mark Wilson / Getty; … Is Democracy Constitutional?
In Moore v. Harper the Supreme Court will decide if anyone besides itself should be able to adjudicate American election law.
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GraphicaArtis / Getty; The Atlantic This Court Has Revealed Conservative Originalism to Be a Hollow Shell
The Supreme Court’s right-wing justices claim to be originalists, but then they pick and choose the history that fits their ideological preferences.
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The Atlantic; Getty The Supreme Court’s Extreme Power Grab
In West Virginia v. EPA, the conservative justices acted like they were handing power to the people, but in reality they were giving it to themselves.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Supreme Court Has Ushered In a New Era of Religion at School
For two centuries, America had kept questions of church and state at bay. The country is not ready for the ones to come.
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Getty; The Atlantic Mother Nature Dissents
From Texas to California, voters are enduring rude wake-up calls about the future of our country.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Case That Could Blow Up American Election Law
A radical and baseless legal theory could upend the country’s most essential democratic process.
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Thomas J. O'Halloran / Library of Congress Dobbs Is No Brown v. Board of Education
Conservatives think they are righting a historical wrong, but the two decisions represent entirely different approaches to the law.
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Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg The Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling Is Going to Be Very, Very Expensive
The agency can still regulate carbon pollution, just not in the most efficient, system-wide ways.
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The Atlantic; Getty The Constitution Is Whatever the Right Wing Says It Is
The Supreme Court majority’s undead constitutionalism is transforming right-wing media tropes into law.
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Abortion-rights and anti-abortion-rights activists in front of the … They Really Did It
The Supreme Court’s conservatives finally felt safe to do what they wanted to do.
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The Atlantic; Getty If the Supreme Court Can Reverse Roe, It Can Reverse Anything
No one should get used to their rights.
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Sergio Flores / Getty The Problem Is Gun Culture, Not SCOTUS
A win in the Supreme Court for the American right to threaten one another in public
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NYPD / Getty I Was a Police Officer for 20 Years. I Know What It Means to Put More Guns on the Street.
How the Supreme Court made cities less safe
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The Atlantic The Next Fight Over Guns in America
With Thursday’s Supreme Court decision, the only real remaining question is not whether Americans can carry firearms, but where.
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H. Armstrong Roberts / Classicstock / Getty What My Mom Told Me About America Before Roe
Erica Jong celebrated women who wouldn’t settle for less than freedom and equality. Now those things I took for granted are on the line.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Supreme Court Is Not Supposed to Have This Much Power
And Congress should claw it back.
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Darren McCollester / Getty The Supreme Court’s Next Targets
The conservative majority is likely to overturn major precedents this term—not just Roe.
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Associated Press The Myth That Roe Broke America
The debate over abortion is an important part of the story of polarization in American politics, but it is not its genesis.
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