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Matt Ford
A Federal Court Just Upended Decades of Environmental Regulation
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals just threw a major wrench into the effort to protect the planet—and teed up another chance for the Supreme Court to take a bite out of the administrative state.
November 14, 2024
November 13, 2024
Matt Ford
Utah Lawmakers Hint at “War” in Federal Land Dispute
In a long-running fight with Washington, the Beehive State’s top politicos have found a novel way to escalate the conflict with the Supreme Court.
November 5, 2024
Steve Kennedy
Liberals Won’t Beat the Supreme Court With Legal Arguments Alone
Their interests are being litigated with deftness and aplomb, but more needs to be done outside the courtroom to start turning the tide.
November 5, 2024
Susan Rinkunas
“Roevember” Won’t Save These Vulnerable Abortion Clinics
Funding cuts have critical all-trimester facilities on the brink of collapse—and the ripple effects to public health could be profound.
October 30, 2024
Matt Ford
Hawaii Takes Aim at the Supreme Court’s Most Chaotic Gun Rights Ruling
Can the Aloha State defy the Roberts court on a controversial Second Amendment decision? They may soon find out.
October 28, 2024
Matt Ford
The Supreme Court Takes Aim at California’s Right to Clean Air
An environmental regulations case may potentially test Chief Justice John Roberts’s propensity for inventing novel legal doctrines out of thin air.
October 24, 2024
Matt Ford
Polluters Found a New Way to Weaken the EPA at the Supreme Court
The high court will hear a trio of cases that might permit environmental scofflaws greater leave to go forum shopping for friendly lower court judges.
October 23, 2024
Matt Ford
I Don’t Trust the Supreme Court With the 2024 Election
During his presidency, the high court’s conservatives proved to be resistant to the idea that Donald Trump was their legal client. This year, that all changed.
October 23, 2024
Duncan Hosie
The Late Supreme Court Chief Who Haunts Today’s Right-Wing Justices
William Rehnquist went from a lonely dissenter to an institutionalist chief—and his opinions are all the rage among the court’s current conservatives.
October 15, 2024
Simon Lazarus
The Democrats Are the Only True Defenders of the Constitution
Now that the right has abandoned the Founders, the Harris-Walz campaign has the chance to flaunt this winning rebrand. They should take it.
October 14, 2024
Matthew Wollin
The Insidious Legal Theory Behind the Abortion Rights Rollback
There’s an arcane concept from the 1700s that underpins the attack on reproductive rights: the idea that women are incapable of making their own decisions.
October 12, 2024
Jason Linkins
Three Critical Arguments Harris Needs to Make in These Final Days
Here are some ideas to help Democrats close the deal with the widest possible swath of persuadable voters.
October 11, 2024
Susan Rinkunas
The Supreme Court May Use Dobbs to Take Down Trans Rights—and Beyond
The overturning of Roe was always going to affect more than just abortion, and we’re about to find out how bad it can get.
October 4, 2024
Holly Brewer
Jack Smith Exposed the Insanity of the Supreme Court’s Immunity Ruling
His latest brief in the January 6 case inadvertently suggests how a future President Trump could cling to power through “official” acts.
October 4, 2024
Alexander Nazaryan
The New Supreme Court Session Opens Monday. It Will Not Be Pretty.
A gun case and a death penalty case are among those on the docket—with zero sign that the conservative majority cares about the court’s falling reputation.
October 1, 2024
Jay Willis
Take Trump’s Plan to Jail the Supreme Court’s Critics Seriously
The right to criticize the powerful is a cornerstone of democracy. In Trump’s America, it’s cause for a prison sentence.
September 30, 2024
Michael Linhorst
The Supreme Court Is on Collision Course With Its Ethics Struggles
A new case the high court may take up this term concerns when judges should recuse themselves. It’s a problem with which these justices are intimately familiar.
September 26, 2024
Susan Rinkunas
How Abortion Funds Are Coping With Their Election-Year Money Crunch
Overshadowed by ballot measures and the presidential race, mutual aid groups that pay for people’s abortions are teaming up with state advocates to better their bottom lines.
September 24, 2024
Martin Skladany
How the Anti-Abortion Movement Undermines Democracy
The Democrats’ new “freedom” rhetoric on reproductive rights isn’t just playing well with the public, it’s also a broader defense of individual liberty against would-be authoritarians.
September 17, 2024
Katherine Stewart
Leonard Leo’s Extremely Revealing Letter to a Dark-Money Group
The right-wing power broker’s call to “weaponize” conservative ideas tells us everything we need to know about his twisted vision for America.

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