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Mark Peterson / Redux When Conservative Justices Revolt
Donald Trump promised religious voters that he would protect them with his Supreme Court appointments. The justices are not necessarily playing along.
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Daniel Acker / Reuters Voter Suppression by Pandemic
Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund discusses Wisconsin’s election debacle and how the coronavirus has become a new tool of voter suppression.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The DACA Case Is a Test of the Administration’s Basic Competence
Nearly 700,000 people’s futures are at stake.
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Dotted Yeti / Africa Studio / Ttatty / … A Supreme Court Impeachment Fight That’s Already Under Way
A decade ago, West Virginia foreshadowed the influence that money and politics have come to have on state judiciaries. Now it may warn of a worrying new trend.
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Rodger Mallison / Star-Telegram / AP Even Never Trump Evangelicals Might Be Swayed by the Supreme Court
Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination is one sign of unity among divided denominations.
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Keith Srakocic / AP Contempt for Court
Republican lawmakers are increasingly showing disdain for decisions made by the judicial branch—and by extension the rule of law.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Can Government Officials Have You Arrested for Speaking to Them?
The Supreme Court faces a test of the authority of politicians to use police to silence their critics.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The National-Security-Law Expert Who Blocked Trump's Travel Ban
The former federal prosecutor and deputy counsel to the Department of Homeland Security writes that the prohibition violates the Constitution.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Will the Supreme Court Legitimize Partisan Gerrymandering?
An upcoming case shows how American democracy is threatened by the creativity of those who would try to disenfranchise the other side’s voters.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters America's Red and Blue Judges
Justice Neil Gorsuch exemplifies how the Supreme Court has become fully enmeshed in the rankest partisan politics.
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Yuri Gripas/ Reuters When Beliefs and Identities Clash in Court
The Supreme Court may not be the right place to settle the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, which pits marriage equality against religious freedom.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters How Will the Supreme Court Respond to the Arpaio Pardon?
Though its major import is President Trump’s official endorsement of racist discrimination in law enforcement, a flagrant contempt for judges is the subtext.
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Daniel Becerril / Reuters When Corporations Are Good Citizens
In many recent social and legal battles, large consumer companies have weighed in on the side of marginalized and endangered groups.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Supreme Court Strikes Down a Major Church-State Barrier
Trinity Lutheran v. Comer finds that governments can’t discriminate against churches that would otherwise qualify for funding just because they’re religious institutions.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images The Supreme Court Partially Unblocked Trump's Travel Ban
The Supreme Court announced Monday it will review the president’s controversial executive order next term. But in the meantime, the administration can enforce some of its provisions.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Supreme Court Defends the Integrity of U.S. Citizenship
The justices unanimously limited the federal government’s power to strip immigrants of their hard-won status.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump’s Most Lasting Legacy?
America’s courts—presently a thorn in the president’s side—are about to get a lot more conservative. And they will probably stay that way for a very long time.
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Rashid Abbasi / Reuters The Supreme Court's Ominous National Security Ruling
The verdict could have significant implications for the case testing the Trump administration’s “travel ban,” barring entry of persons from six majority-Muslim countries.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Justice Kennedy's Beauty Pageant
Challengers are parading different standards before the U.S. Supreme Court justice, trying to offer a definition of partisan gerrymandering he’ll find acceptable.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Was Loving v. Virginia Really About Love?
Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws banning interracial marriage, but the issues involved in the case extended beyond its current popular understanding as a tribute to romance.
