If you’re wondering how the high court’s lawless sausage got made, we must turn to an obscure line from a long-forgotten 1977 case.

An open letter to a man I sometimes crossed paths with back in my Republican days.

Whether motivated by animus or naïveté, the justice’s rationale for permitting law enforcement to racially profile suspects has dark implications for democracy.

If the chief justice was once a judicial institutionalist, he has become all too eager to cast norms and precedent aside in matters that benefit Trump.

The Supreme Court’s burgeoning conflict with the lower courts is rooted in whether the courts should show fealty to law and legal precedent or to an authoritarian president.

For the court’s conservative bloc, the line between upholding the Constitution and serving as Donald Trump’s personal attorneys has all but disappeared.

The tariff lawsuit has turned into a revealing window into how the legal sausage is made—and how the conservative justices are providing the president with the blueprints he needs to win.

The Roberts Court has asked for reargument in a key redistricting case, a move that strongly suggests the conservative majority is about to whack the Voting Rights Act again.

A fiery dissent from the newest justice warns that the Supreme Court is doing grievous reputational harm to itself by playing favorites with “moneyed interests.”

Justice Elena Kagan ripped her conservative colleagues for undermining federal agencies.

The Roberts court will have to resolve a significant Fourth Amendment dispute next term. What they decide could potentially expand the “community caretaker” doctrine for police.

Donald Trump tore into Leonard Leo, who recommended several of Trump’s Supreme Court picks.

Donald Trump apparently can’t handle the fact that the justices thought his arguments were bad.

The Trump administration’s brief against the Fourteenth Amendment is a bad one, and it naturally led to some tortured legal reasoning from his solicitor general.

The high court’s recent run at rewriting the Constitution has come for the establishment clause.

The Roberts court just took a case that could entrench economic devastation and eviscerate the rule of law. But some key justices might be persuaded to step back from the brink.

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 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.

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

A new report details how the Trump White House secretly killed an FBI investigation into the sexual assault allegations against then–Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.