There can be no more fitting capstone to the Senate majority leader's legacy of norm-breaking. And it will level the playing field once again.

History suggests that voters don't punish senators for their votes on Supreme Court nominees.

Neil Gorsuch's nomination has put Democrats in a bind. But if they adopt Mitch McConnell's playbook, their progressive agenda will suffer greatly.

A leading legal mind looks ahead to the coming fights over health care, in a Supreme Court that's about to swing right again.

A presidential bandwagon is forming for the breakout Democratic star of the Trump era. But the Senate is where he belongs.

His political power lies in court appointments. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will be the first of many victories to come.

The judge's selective approach to constitutional originalism raises serious questions about his respect for the Second Founding after the Civil War.

They want to turn religious belief into a license to discriminate, and to tear down the wall separating church and state.

This week was pretty bad. But next week will be worse.

In episode 44 of Primary Concerns, Dahlia Lithwick mourns the climate of crisis and power politics engulfing the courts in the Trump era.