Don’t be fooled by the burst of moderation from the justices this term.

The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in NCAA v. Alston has put the end of the organization’s exploitation of college athletes in sight.

His recent ruling shreds a precedent that offered criminal defendants a chance to challenge unjust sentences—and reveals how the court’s conservative bloc has no boundaries.

Under the guise of “religious liberty,” the conservative justices are privileging certain Americans at the expense of the rest of us.

Sloppy language might imperil the president’s landmark law—and future legislative and administrative reforms, too.

The Carter-Baker report was intended to strengthen Americans’ trust in the electoral process. Today, it’s become a favorite weapon for right-wing attacks on voting rights.

On the “postliberal” future of the federal courts

Under cover of Covid-19, the high court’s conservative bloc is dreaming up some radical ideas about religious freedom and public health.

Voters could have given Joe Biden the option to hold the high court in check. Instead, they’ve unleashed its conservative supermajority.

The president wants to exclude noncitizens from the census, in clear violation of the Constitution. Where does Amy Coney Barrett stand?

The Washington insider has been working for decades to put conservatives on the state and federal bench.

The Democrats prefer to whine about Republican extremism rather than retaliate. If the party wins in November, nothing less than absolute ruthlessness will do.

His latest Supreme Court shortlist includes Senate allies Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton, and seems designed to goad Biden into a response.

Republicans have erected a conservative fortress in the federal judiciary. Our founding documents provide the means to knock it down.

The right's high-profile defeats at the Supreme Court in the past month aren't the product of liberal justices but the result of obvious tactical errors.

In upholding the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s treaty-guaranteed lands, the justices did something simple but unexpected.

The justice’s dissent in a little-regarded case strikes an important blow against the right’s efforts to decimate the federal government.

The Supreme Court grants a reprieve to hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants. Their fate will now be decided in the November election.

The conservative justice’s ruling in favor of gay, queer, and transgender workers shows the limits of the right’s Faustian bargain on judges.

The public airing of Supreme Court arguments has laid bare just how ill-equipped the justices are to handle the basic tenets of Indian law.