To stand up to Trump’s lawless power grabs, the Roberts court must disavow its own mirror-image corruptions. It may yet feel obliged to do just that.

The chief justice’s response to the president’s recent rants has been read as a defense of federal judges. But what if it wasn't?

The Supreme Court’s chief justice issued a rare public statement.

Two conservative justices joined the three liberals in ordering the administration to pay USAID contractors who are owed around $2 billion. But can that unlikely split hold?

Chief Justice John Roberts proves once again he is Donald Trump’s best friend.

The mogul seems bent on pushing the Trump White House into a nuclear confrontation with the federal judiciary. He has the chief justice to thank.

The once-independent agency has been forced to embrace a change of mission—serve the president’s exclusive interests, and carry out his revenge on the American people.

Trump’s executive order stripping federal workers of legal protections is the most dangerous of his unlawful power grabs. But there is a way to win them back.

The president-elect’s first term was a circus of self-dealing and plutocratic capture. His second term may end up making that look like an innocent era.

The Roberts court used a novel doctrine to blunt or undo many of Biden’s policy initiatives. But the president-elect was left curiously untroubled by this de facto judicial veto during his last term.

We can all agree that Supreme Court justices shouldn’t face threats of physical violence. But only in the chief justice’s warped, cloistered world does criticism of the high court constitute intimidation.

The Supreme Court chief justice’s claim about the federal courts shows how out of touch he is.

The high court appeared ready to deal a savage blow to the rights and livelihoods of a group that conservatives have spent the year targeting.

Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas weren’t alone in opposing an ethics code.

The president-elect has targeted the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship protections for deletion. The Supreme Court might grant his wish.

Their interests are being litigated with deftness and aplomb, but more needs to be done outside the courtroom to start turning the tide.

An environmental regulations case may potentially test Chief Justice John Roberts’s propensity for inventing novel legal doctrines out of thin air.

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.

William Rehnquist went from a lonely dissenter to an institutionalist chief—and his opinions are all the rage among the court’s current conservatives.

Donald Trump scored a major win when the Supreme Court dramatically expanded the definition of “immunity.”