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March 16, 2016
David H. Gans
Republicans Who Block Obama’s Supreme Court Pick Are Violating the Constitution
The originalist case for the Senate to do its job.
March 16, 2016
Brian Beutler
Why Would Obama Nominate an Old White Guy to the Supreme Court?
There are a few reasons. Political calculation isn't one of them.
March 16, 2016
Laura Reston, Emma Foehringer Merchant
Why Merrick Garland Is the Moderate’s Choice for the Supreme Court
President Obama's nominee, a former prosecutor, has spent his career being careful, persuasive, and collegial.
March 16, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court roll-out made us tear up a little bit.
March 16, 2016
Lawrence Goldstone
The Republican Party Is Doomed If It Denies Obama’s Supreme Court Pick
March 16, 2016
Jeet Heer
Merrick Garland’s nomination raises the question: Why can’t Protestants make it to the Supreme Court?
March 16, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination is the GOP’s first chance to distance itself from Donald Trump.
March 14, 2016
Brian Beutler
#NeverTrump Conservatives Are Fighting for Him to Reshape the Supreme Court
If conservatives really believe Trump should be denied the presidency, they will encourage Republicans to fill the Supreme Court vacancy with all deliberate speed.
March 11, 2016
Charles Gardner Geyh
The Supreme Court Is Losing Its Luster
The politicization of the court has sullied its reputation.
March 10, 2016
Alex Shephard
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is publishing a book.
March 4, 2016
MagazineDana Goldstein
Sterilization’s Cruel Inheritance
The eugenic legacy of a 1927 Supreme Court decision to sterilize “imbeciles.”
March 4, 2016
David Dayen
Chuck Grassley in the Crosshairs
With a strong Democratic challenger to his Senate seat—and President Obama vetting an Iowa judge for Antonin Scalia’s Supreme Court seat—the Iowa senator is starting to crack.
March 2, 2016
David H. Gans
The Supreme Court’s Choice on Abortion
In tackling Texas's onerous abortion laws, the Court can reaffirm a woman's right to choose or subject the abortion right to a death by a thousand cuts.
March 2, 2016
Gwyneth Kelly
The fact that liposuction is less regulated than abortion says all you need to know about women’s health in Texas.
February 29, 2016
Adam Peck
Justice Thomas just asked a question during oral arguments for the first time in a decade.
February 25, 2016
Alex Shephard
The rich friends Scalia was hanging out with when he died were part of a “secretive society of elite hunters.”
February 24, 2016
Adam Peck
There’s a growing conservative movement to let zombie Scalia vote.
February 24, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Why is Obama considering a Republican for the Supreme Court?
February 24, 2016
Scott Lemieux
Antonin Scalia and the Death of Originalism
Will Scalia’s grand constitutional theory have a lasting legacy on the Supreme Court?
February 22, 2016
Brian Beutler
Having a hard time settling on a Supreme Court nominee, Mr. President? Why not pick three!

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