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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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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Anti-Sanctuary-Cities Bill That Outlawed Dissent
A federal court enjoined much of a Texas law that punished officials who dared “endorse” the view that its provisions were harmful to public safety.
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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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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Generational Significance of the Travel Ban Cases
The Supreme Court could leave a legacy as enduring as Brown v Board of Education.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Neal Katyal: Senate's Obstruction of Merrick Garland 'Was Unforgivable'
The former acting solicitor general said that the Republican blockade against the onetime Supreme Court nominee represented a breakdown of checks and balances.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP A Major Church-State Ruling That Shouldn't Have Happened
In Trinity v. Comer, there was no remaining dispute between the actual parties—and both the majority opinion and the leading dissent got the issue wrong.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Trump's Limited Travel Ban Victory
The Supreme Court granted review of the president’s travel ban in October, but the Court clearly hopes—and strongly hints—that the case will be moot by then.
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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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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Supreme Court Tinkers at the Edges of the Machinery of Death
Opponents of the practice won a series of notable cases at the U.S. Supreme Court this term, even as total victory in their war against the death penalty moved further out of reach.
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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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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Supreme Court Offers a Warning on Free Speech
In two First Amendment rulings released this week, the justices argue they're saving would-be censors from themselves.
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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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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Tweets May Have Sunk His Travel Ban
The president fires off some ill-advised tweets confirming the legal arguments opposed to his policy
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Aaron Josefczyk / Reuters Use It or Lose It?
The U.S. Supreme Court will review an Ohio procedure that removes voters from the rolls if they haven’t cast a ballot in six years and fail to return a postcard.
