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December 3, 2024
Jonathan van Harmelen
The Court Where the Rule of Law Still Lives—for Now
During Trump’s first term, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was a rare oasis of judicial sobriety. It will face an even sterner test the next time around.
July 2, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Supreme Court Sets Up Legal War to Weaken the Government
The high court sent nine cases back to the lower courts in light of recent rulings weakening federal agency authority.
June 28, 2024
Talia Jane
Supreme Court Nukes Chevron, in Massive Blow to Federal Agencies
The Supreme Court has overturned decades of precedent on the administrative state—transferring more power to the judiciary.
March 18, 2024
Timothy Noah
Is Donald Trump About to Go Bankrupt?
Insurer Chubb has stepped in with a timely loan to help with some of the former president’s mounting legal fees. But he’s still nearly half a billion dollars short—and he says he hasn’t got it.
July 28, 2023
Jess Coleman
The Radical Makeover of the Israeli Supreme Court Has Nothing to Do With Democracy
The hard-liners pushing for change may sound like our own liberal reformers, but their aim is a power grab.
July 7, 2022
Matt Ford
The Rise of the Hereditary Judiciary
As more and more judges engineer their own end-of-career successions, the rule of law is starting to warp in dangerous and unsustainable ways.
August 20, 2020
Christopher J. Sprigman
A Constitutional Weapon for Biden to Vanquish Trump’s Army of Judges
Republicans have erected a conservative fortress in the federal judiciary. Our founding documents provide the means to knock it down.
June 11, 2020
J.C. Hallman
When Mr. Sloan Went to Washington
Sam Sloan is a college dropout, an ex-con, and a polygamist. He is also the last non-lawyer to win a case at the Supreme Court.
May 15, 2020
Matt Ford
Rebuilding the Constitution
American democracy is broken. Here’s how to fix it.
May 7, 2020
Matt Ford
The Jared Kushner of the Federal Judiciary
Judge Justin Walker is the worst of a long line of right-wing dilettantes fast-tracked by Mitch McConnell in his relentless quest to subvert the judiciary.
January 3, 2020
Matt Ford
John Roberts: Bemused Spectator of American Democracy
The chief justice's year-end report dwells heavily on the preservation of our civic life, without noting his hand in its undoing.
June 26, 2019
Matt Ford
Clarence Thomas’s Unprecedented America
The Justice has always shown a disregard for precedent, but with a shift in Supreme Court personnel, undoing progress could be the law of the land.
February 11, 2019
Guy Hedgecoe
Spanish Democracy Goes on Trial
Will the activists who organized the vote for Catalonian independence in 2017 be convicted of rebellion and sedition?
November 26, 2018
Jonathan Zimmerman
Who Is John Roberts Kidding?
Of course the court system is political! The first step toward changing that is acknowledging it.
October 24, 2018
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Matt Ford
Can State Courts Save the Liberal Agenda?
Trump has seized the federal bench, but there's hope for Democrats in the lower judiciary.
May 10, 2018
Scott Lemieux
Democrats: Prepare to Pack the Supreme Court
If Republicans refuse to let the other party govern, all options should be on the table.
February 23, 2018
Scott Lemieux
The GOP Is Scared of a Fair Fight
A battle over Pennsylvania's electoral map reveals the party's casual contempt for basic democratic norms.
June 6, 2013
Molly Redden
Meet Roger Vinson, the Judge Who Signed the Sweeping NSA Order
April 30, 2013
Linda Hirshman
When Justice O'Connor Thought a Bush Was "Vital for the Court"
An old letter suggests she too once saw the Supreme Court as a political body
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