The administrative state is squarely in the high court’s crosshairs. But public pressure has successfully kept the justices from going over the brink before—and it might work again.

At oral arguments, Chief Justice John Roberts emerged as the likely deciding vote in a case that will determine whether unelected judges take control of the administrative state.

The former president made little headway while in office against the administrative state, but the Roberts court is ready to step in.

Two cases this term might cement a new order of judicial supremacy—and end the idea of a government by “We the People.”

Liberal pressure contributed to an unexpected tempering of the conservative justices’ extremes last time out. We’ll know soon if that will endure.

In a brief stop in Washington, the presidential hopeful reassured a room of devotees that he and his ideas were, in fact, brilliant.

The Biden administration has taken some bold steps to bolster the civil service after Trump’s attempt to transform it into an instrument of authoritarianism.

The justices will have a chance to further disrupt the balance of power between the courts, Congress, and the White House.

Justice Samuel Alito is inventing a new way for the high court to substitute its own judgment for that of lawmakers.

America’s top civics knower also promises to pile on more corporate deregulation—even after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the derailment in East Palestine.

Trump’s “Schedule F” plan to eliminate workplace protections for the civil service was averted in 2020. But the GOP still dreams of the purge.

The Texas senator’s recent complaint about the Inflation Reduction Act accidentally told the truth about the court’s war against the administrative state.

The high court cast aside the people’s elected representatives to enact the climate-denial agenda of the megadonors who funded its nominations. It won’t stop there.

The court’s conservatives seem eager to take apart the mechanics of liberal governance, but they’re having commitment issues.

The United States of America will be a vastly different country by the end of the month.

The Roberts court is taking up cases with phantasmal litigants and speculative complaints. But how it resolves them could have a massive impact on American life.

Ignore the lazy conventional wisdom. The nation’s capital is the most public-spirited city in the country. By far.

Neil Gorsuch’s recent invocation of the “major questions doctrine” has ominous implications for anyone not keen on watching the government drown in dysfunction.

The court did not foreclose robust new workplace vaccination standards, nor bless the radical right’s blueprint for annihilating the “administrative state.”

The country we’ll reside in at the start of 2022 will look very different in 365 days’ time.